Tango Vision vs Mapsted
Mapsted does indoor positioning without beacons, hosted in their cloud. Building OS is the building's operating system, and can run entirely inside your perimeter.
Sources checked 23 August 2026
Where Mapsted is strong.
Written by us, about a competitor. We would say the same in a sales meeting — and a comparison with no concessions reads as a brochure.
Hardware-free positioning is a real commercial advantage
No beacons means no capital cost, no batteries to replace, no installation labour and no negotiating building access. They market it hard because it is genuinely a strong answer to the objection every beacon vendor has to handle.
The best public developer documentation of the vendors we looked at
An open, no-login portal with current versioned SDKs across iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter and Ionic, with API references and migration guides. Several competitors put this behind a registration wall.
A deep patent position
They state more than a hundred granted patents since 2014. Whatever one thinks of software patents, that is a substantial and defensible position.
Capability by capability.
Presence of a capability, not scores. Where we could not verify something from public material, the table says so rather than guessing.
| Capability | Tango Vision | Mapsted |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor map rendering and wayfinding | Yes | Yes |
| Blue Dot live positioningTheir published accuracy is one to five metres. The underlying sensing method is not described publicly, so it cannot be evaluated from their material. | QR-anchor baseline, plus a provider interface | Yes — no beacons or external hardware |
| Self-service map management | Yes | Yes |
| CAD and PDF import | Yes | Yes |
| IFC / BIM import | Yes | Not stated publicly |
| Semantic building graph | Yes — W3C BOT | Not stated publicly |
| Facility management, leasing, equipment registerTheir scope is positioning, location marketing, analytics and asset or personnel tracking. It is broad, but within the location domain rather than building operations. | Yes | No |
| Asset and personnel tracking | Partly — via IoT and sensing modules | Yes — dedicated badges and tags |
| AI agent surface (Model Context Protocol) | Yes | Not stated publicly |
| Runs on your own infrastructureTheir privacy policy states that application and database servers are located with Amazon in the United States, and that data may be processed and stored there. For buildings with data-residency obligations this is the row that decides it. | Yes | Not stated publicly |
| Published prices | No | No |
Which one should you buy?
One of these two answers is going to be right for your building, and it is not always ours.
Choose theirs
Choose Mapsted
Choose Mapsted if hardware-free positioning across many sites is the core requirement, and hosting in their US cloud is acceptable to you. Avoiding beacons entirely is a genuine advantage and we do not match it.
Choose ours
Choose Building OS
Choose Building OS if your data cannot leave your jurisdiction or your perimeter, or if you need the building's operations — maintenance, leases, equipment, telemetry — on the same model as the map.
Where this came from
- Mapsted — privacy policy (server location)Checked 23 August 2026
- Mapsted — indoor navigation (no beacons, accuracy)Checked 23 August 2026
- Mapsted — developer portalChecked 23 August 2026
- Mapsted — about (patents)Checked 23 August 2026
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