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Hospital Indoor Wayfinding

Step-by-step directions inside large hospitals.

Intermediate16h2–3 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Hospital Indoor Wayfinding for patients and visitors in ~16h with 2–3 people. Stack: Next.js + Graph search + QR codes.

Why it wins: Practical problem solved with simple tech.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Patients get lost between departments and miss appointments.
02 · Solution
Model floors as a graph, let users scan QR codes at signposts and show turn-by-turn directions with accessible routes.
03 · Build
  1. 1Map floors
  2. 2Place QR codes
  3. 3Compute routes
  4. 4Render directions
04 · Demo
Scan a QR and follow directions to radiology.

MVP checklist

  • Floor graph
  • QR positioning
  • Accessible routes
  • Multilingual

Tech stack

TechRole
Next.jsFrontend + API routes
Graph searchTooling
QR codesQR codes

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