Blogs

Insights and deep dives from the Ariadne team and the venues we work with.

223 articles

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

Indoor Map Data Standards: IMDF, GeoJSON, and IndoorGML Explained

Indoor map data standards explained: IMDF and its GeoJSON base, IndoorGML for routing, and how CAD and BIM sources convert into a consistent indoor map.

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

Accessible Wayfinding Routes: Designing Genuine Step-Free Navigation Indoors

How to design accessible, step-free wayfinding routes indoors: elevators over stairs, grade and door limits, ADA principles, and mapping accessible route data.

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

Wayfinding Kiosk Design: Hardware, Map UX, Placement, and Accessibility

How to design a wayfinding kiosk: hardware and screen choices, map UX, placement at decision points, accessibility, and when to choose kiosk or mobile.

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

Visual Positioning Systems Indoors: How Camera-Based VPS Locates a User

How a visual positioning system locates users indoors from the phone camera, why it powers AR wayfinding, its lighting limits, and the camera-free alternative.

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

BLE Beacon vs UWB: Accuracy, Cost, and Which to Choose

BLE beacons vs UWB compared: how each locates a device, the accuracy gap, infrastructure and battery cost, and a clear decision framework for indoor

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

UWB Indoor Positioning: How Ultra-Wideband Locates Tags (2026)

How UWB indoor positioning works: time-of-flight ranging, anchors and tags, decimetre accuracy, cost, and where ultra-wideband fits against other methods.

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

3D Indoor Mapping: From Floor Plan to a Navigable Model (2026)

3D indoor mapping explained: how a dimensional interior model differs from a 2D floor plan and a digital twin, and why it needs a positioning layer to navigate.

BlogJul 2, 2026Shopping Malls

Cross-Shopping in Malls: How Shoppers Move Between Tenants (2026)

Cross-shopping shows which mall tenants share shoppers. What it reveals for leasing and cross-promotion, and how to measure it without cameras.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Mall Redevelopment and Footfall: How to Prove It Worked

How to prove a mall redevelopment lifted footfall: baseline, control, seasonality, sustained vs reopening-spike visits, and the mistakes that inflate success.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Regional vs Community Shopping Center: The Full Typology

Shopping center types compared: neighborhood, community, regional, superregional, and power centers by size, anchor, trade area, and footfall profile.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Percentage Rent and Footfall: How Traffic Drives the Overage a Landlord Earns

Percentage rent, the breakpoint, and the formula explained, plus why center footfall is the leading indicator of the overage rent a landlord earns.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Grocery-Anchored Shopping Centers: The Defensive Format Investors Keep Buying

A grocery-anchored center draws frequent, necessity-led visits, making footfall defensive in a downturn. How it differs from a mall and what the data proves.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Anchor vs Inline Tenant: Rent, Space, Leverage, and Who Depends on Whom

Anchor vs inline tenant compared: space, rent per square foot, lease term, who depends on whose traffic, and what inline stores prove with a door count.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Shadow Anchor Store: Borrowed Traffic and the Risk of Not Owning It

A shadow anchor drives traffic to a center it isn't leased to. What it is, how it differs from an on-site anchor, the upside, and the co-tenancy risk.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Junior Anchor Tenant: Definition, Size, and Lease Terms (2026)

A junior anchor is a mid-size traffic draw smaller than a department store. Which categories qualify, typical size, lease economics, and why they are gaining.

BlogJul 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Anchor Tenant Examples: Stores That Anchor a Mall (2026)

Anchor tenant examples by format: department stores, supermarkets, big-box, plus the cinema and food-hall anchors replacing them, and how to prove they pull.

BlogJun 2, 2026Shopping Malls

Mall cross-promotion measurement: anchor spillover, coupon attribution, zone capture

Mall cross-promotion measurement in 2026: anchor-to-specialty spillover, coupon attribution models, zone-capture metrics, and a matched-baseline lift loop.

BlogJun 2, 2026Digital Signage

Mall directory placement: 6 spots that drive measurable navigation events

Six mall directory placements that drive measurable navigation events, plus camera-free ways to report interaction, footfall, and search queries.

BlogJun 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Pop-up footfall measurement: did a three-month activation move center-level visits?

Did a three-month pop-up move center-level footfall? Choosing the baseline, controlling contamination, and reading lift at the zone and the building.

BlogJun 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Lease renewal footfall: 6 metrics that land the conversation

The six footfall metrics a landlord brings to a retailer at renewal: centre visits YoY, anchor spillover, zone capture, dwell, day-part, weekday-weekend.

BlogJun 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Mall marketing attribution: tying campaign spend to incremental footfall

Tie mall marketing spend to incremental footfall: clean baselines, geo holdouts, pre/post designs, attribution windows, and the measurement feed underneath.

BlogJun 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Department-store anchor decline 2020-2025: what replaced the draw

How department-store anchors declined 2020-2025, what replaced them (F&B, experiential, mixed-use), and how landlords use footfall data through the shift.

BlogJun 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Designer outlet vs mall: how the two formats actually behave

How designer outlet centers and traditional malls differ on visit cadence, dwell, group size and weekend mix, and what each format actually optimises for.

BlogJun 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Common area utilization: how malls measure the 14% of space landlords run themselves

Around 10-15% of a mall is common area run by the landlord. The four numbers that price kiosks, pop-ups, and events on atriums and food courts.

BlogJun 1, 2026Shopping Malls

Tenant performance reporting: what malls share with retailers

What landlords share with tenants from centre footfall data, what they keep internal, and how the monthly report becomes a renewal tool twelve months early.