BhuNav App to help navigate epicentre of World Hockey

December 11, 2018 Sports

Bhubaneswar: For fans of hockey and stadium visitors including the Fan Village enthusiasts, who wish to go and have a glimpse of the action-packed sporting activities in the Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup -2018, anew App “BhuNav” has come as a wonderful tool to navigate and help as way finding tool.

“BhuNav” is an indoor GPS and provides directions on a map for various places inside the Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup-2018 stadium complex. The App has a built-in navigation system similar to Google Maps to help users find points of interest (POI’s) or people inside buildings.

Developed for Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) and Hockey Federation of India by IT major Honeywell, which is also a stakeholder for creating the IT infrastructure across the city, BhuNavis helping the visitors to navigate the massive 5,000 square yards stadium.

Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup is being held at the Kalinga Stadium. 16 top hockey-playing nations are participating in the19 day-long event, the facility is witnessing a massive crowd of 1 million from across the globe.

But what makes “BhuNav” different:

The BhuNav App is different from the traditional navigational services as it not only shows the path, but also helps one to navigate between multiple floors-one can view the transit from one floor to another.

The App can get one user other information as well and in future would add other indoor locations in the city, after the Hockey World Cup.

Key Features:

The new App helps citizens to connect with the stadiums, museums, government facilities across the city. However,presently only Kalinga Stadium Complex is connected to the App.

This App could be used in several different areas of the stadium. It can help citizens to find the points of interest (like FAN village, parking, restrooms, food stalls, entry-exits etc.)

It helps to enhance user convenience and experience.

The app provides user’s current location on the map in real time with a blue dot. It helps in share location facility, save locations in visiting list and most importantly, provide offline navigation.