Meet Ariadne at EXPO REAL 2026

Twenty minutes at the stand, booked before the show. Bring one asset and one number you do not trust: footfall the leasing deck claims but nobody measured, common areas that cost money with no proof anyone uses them, or tenant sales that moved while traffic supposedly did not.

Dates
October 5 – 7, 2026
Venue
Messe München, Munich, Germany
Stand
Hall A3, Stand TB19
Program
Transform & Beyond by EXPO REAL
Speaking
Francesco Vasta, Tech Talk Stage, Hall B2 stand 310, Monday 5 October 11:25
Show hours
09:00 to 19:00 on 5 and 6 October, 09:00 to 16:00 on 7 October
Team on site
Francesco Vasta, Nikos Tsiamitros (CTO), Govarthan Natarajan

Tickets run through Messe München directly. Official registration

Pick a time at the show

  1. Twenty minutes, at the stand or over coffee, at a time you choose.
  2. You describe one asset and one measurement you do not trust today.
  3. We show what our sensors would report there, and what they would not.
  4. No slide deck unless you ask for one.

On the stand

On the stand at A3.TB19

Everything on the stand is shipping today. Nothing is a roadmap slide.

A sensor with no camera in it

Time-of-Flight depth sensing counts everyone entering, capturing geometry rather than images. Patented phone signal sensing follows movement through the interior, reading the signals a phone emits even in airplane mode. Both feeds stream to Ariadne, where Hybrid Fusion combines them into one trajectory per visit. No MAC address, no device ID, no biometric data, no video.

Zone and tenant performance, live

How many people entered through each entrance, which zones and floors they visited, how long they stayed, and how traffic moves between anchors. The same counts drive tenant performance reporting, common-area decisions, and the footfall line in a leasing conversation.

Threa AI on real visit data

Ask the dashboard a question in a sentence instead of building a report. It answers from the visit data your own sensors produced.

Already deployed

What this has been worth to an operator

WEKO ran Ariadne's people flow analytics across its stores and measured 20% traffic growth and a 40% sales lift. Watsons lifted traffic 20% in one week with cross-promotional campaigns built on the same counts. Glasgow Airport turned passenger flow insight into £54,000 of additional daily non-aeronautical revenue. Every number here was published by the operator, not projected by us.

40%
sales lift at WEKO with people flow analytics
£54,000
additional daily non-aeronautical revenue at Glasgow Airport
20%
traffic lift in one week, Watsons cross-promotion

Three minutes on the Tech Talk Stage

Francesco Vasta pitches on the Tech Talk Stage, Hall B2 stand 310, on Monday 5 October at 11:25. Three minutes, one question: how do you count visitors to a building when there is no camera in the sensor, and what do those counts settle that a leasing deck currently just asserts. The stage seats about 85 people, sits inside the Transform & Beyond program, and needs no separate ticket.

The slot is listed in the official EXPO REAL conference program.

What twenty minutes covers

Your floor plan on the table: where sensors would go, what they would report there (entrance counts, zone traffic, dwell, movement between floors and anchors), and what they would not. If you already buy footfall data or run counters, bring last quarter's numbers and we will talk about where they come from and why they disagree with what tenants report.

Nikos Tsiamitros, our CTO, is on the stand. Questions about sensor placement in an awkward atrium, what accuracy your geometry actually allows, or how the counts reach the BI stack you already run get answered there, by the person who built the system, rather than written down for a follow-up call.

How the counting works

Ariadne measures this with Hybrid Fusion, its patented camera-free method. Time-of-Flight depth sensing counts every visitor at the entrances, capturing geometry rather than images, while patented phone signal sensing follows movement through the interior, detecting the signals a phone emits even in airplane mode, and tracks that movement to about one-metre precision. The sensor streams both feeds to Ariadne, where Hybrid Fusion combines them into one trajectory per visit and computes counts, dwell, and paths. The streams carry no identifier: no MAC address, no device ID, no biometric data, and no camera is involved. Identifiers are stored only when a visitor explicitly opts in, which keeps the method GDPR-friendly and outside biometric territory.

Why owners pick a camera-free counter

Nothing personal is captured at the sensor: no face, no demographic inference, no identifier. There is nothing to anonymise after the fact, and nothing for GDPR's biometric provisions to attach to, which is a structural answer rather than a compliance project. For a portfolio, that is one data protection assessment that reads the same in every country the assets sit in.

The measurement itself, the accuracy figures, and the comparison against camera-based counters live on the people counting page.

Before the show

Questions we get asked on a stand

Where is Ariadne at EXPO REAL 2026?

Stand A3.TB19, in Hall A3, as part of the Transform & Beyond by EXPO REAL program. The show runs October 5 to 7, 2026 at Messe München, 09:00 to 19:00 on the Monday and Tuesday and 09:00 to 16:00 on the Wednesday. Book a slot above and we will hold the time; walk-ups work too whenever the stand is staffed.

Are you speaking at EXPO REAL 2026?

Yes. Francesco Vasta, our Global Key Account Manager, gives a three-minute pitch on the Tech Talk Stage in Hall B2, stand 310, on Monday 5 October at 11:25, inside the Transform & Beyond program. The stage seats about 85 people and needs no separate ticket beyond show entry. For the unrushed version of the same argument, book a slot at the stand.

Do you use cameras?

No. Ariadne counts with Hybrid Fusion: Time-of-Flight depth sensing plus patented phone signal sensing, never cameras. Time-of-Flight captures geometry rather than images, and signal sensing captures no MAC address by default, so the measurement involves no video, no faces, and no biometric data.

What can it measure in a shopping centre or office building?

Entrance counts, zone-by-zone traffic, dwell time, and how visitors move between floors and anchors. Owners use the same feed for tenant performance reporting, common-area utilization, and footfall evidence in lease negotiations. Occupancy by area works the same way in an office building.

How accurate is it?

Accuracy depends on the layout, sensor placement, and how the venue defines a count, whether that is entries only or zone by zone. Real-world deployments at airports and shopping centres consistently measure within 1 to 2 percent of ground truth.

Does this replace our existing systems?

Usually it feeds them. Ariadne has an open API and pre-built connectors, so the counts can drive the BI stack, the workforce system, and the marketing tools you already run. Bring the list of systems and we will tell you which ones we have already connected to.

We cannot get to Munich. Can we still talk?

Yes. The same booking link works for a remote call, and the conversation is the same one: your asset, one measurement you do not trust, and what our sensors would report there.

Book before the diary fills

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