Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Nov 7, 2026)

Baidu Maps launches indoor navigation on HarmonyOS, covering 106 malls in 22 cities

KEY FACTS

Baidu Maps announced on November 7 the launch of its HarmonyOS-exclusive indoor navigation feature.
The feature is built on Huawei's StarTrack positioning technology and can precisely locate stores inside malls.
The first batch covers 106 large commercial complexes across 22 cities nationwide.
The feature supports automatic floor switching and delivers seamless indoor-to-outdoor navigation.
Huawei's StarTrack positioning technology already supports 50,000 business-district geofences and 17,000 buildings with indoor positioning.

KEY DATA

22Cities covered in first batch

106Commercial complexes covered in first batch

500,000Business-district geofences supported by StarTrack

17,000Buildings with indoor positioning supported by StarTrack

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Indoor navigation has long been a blind spot in mapping services, and Baidu is closing the gap with HarmonyOS and StarTrack positioning; the first batch of 106 malls in 22 cities is only a starting point. For users, finding a store or an elevator no longer relies on guesswork; for the industry, indoor location services are moving from concept to large-scale deployment, and mall digital operations may gain a new entry point.

Source: IT Home report