THE PROBLEM

A staggering 75% of the world is still badly addressed[]. Whether it's for meeting people, getting your package delivered, accessing emergency services, opening bank accounts, or registering to vote, bad addresses are an everyday problem for billions of people around the globe. Not any more!

OUR SOLUTION

Smart addresses are all-new addresses to places. Anyone anywhere can get an instant smart address to their home, business or any place on Earth. And, you can customize it and share it with others so they can find your place easily.


Smart addresses are built for the 21st century. We are introducing a scalable addressing infrastructure that is open, human-friendly & promotes economic inclusion worldwide. No more bad addresses. No more unaddressed people. No more getting lost meeting people or finding customers!

WHAT ARE SMART ADDRESSES?

Smart addresses are all-new addresses to every place on Earth. They are simpler, accurate to your doorstep & standardized globally. Because they are decentralized, you can instantly get an address anywhere anytime and use it just like you'd use use a real address.

HOW CAN SMART ADDRESSES HELP YOU?

Smart addresses are for everyone. No address? Get one instantly. Long address? Get a simpler one. Want a custom address? Get one to your doorstep, backyard, or anyplace!

You can use smart addresses for meeting people or finding customers easily anywhere. From door deliveries to drone deliveries, smart addresses are designed for today & tomorrow.

WHAT ABOUT EXISTING ADDRESSES?

Smart addresses are designed to augment existing addresses - not replace them. Where street addresses don't exist, smart addresses are readily available. Where street addresses are not accurate, smart addresses are guaranteed to be accurate because they are GPS-based.

HOW ABOUT OTHER SOLUTIONS?

Smart addresses are designed to look like real addresses - not random words or confusing codes.



Most importantly, unlike others, smart addresses are sequentially numbered like real addresses.

WHAT MAKES IT "SMART"? ▽

Read more to find out what makes our solution game-changing!

1. 💯 HIERARCHICAL
   
   Smart addresses combine the best of both worlds. On the surface, a smart address looks like a simple street address. But, under the hood, it is nothing but a hierarchical geocode.
   
   

   Smart Address Breakdown

   @7215 BRONZE CASTLE 20
   

   @BLOCK | SUPERBLOCK | BLOCKLET

   PARIS +25U53
   

   CITY +MEGABLOCK

   Blocklet
   (10x10 blocklets =
   1 Block)

   Block
   (80x80 blocks =
   1 Superblock)

   Superblock
   (20x20 superblocks =
   1 Megablock)

   Megablock
   (480x240 megablocks =
   Entire world)

   💡 The megablock codes, aka +FIVEs, are optional but recommended for guaranteed accuracy. The nested geocodes are computed using a simple rule of "start at southwest corner, go east & then north". Only the first letters, e.g., B & C, of the 4-km superblock are the actual geocodes. And so, BIG CASTLE, BLUE CAMP, BRONZE CASTLE, etc. are all considered equivalent.
2. 📌 DOORSTEP ACCURACY
   
   Smart addresses accurately pinpoint locations down to the last 5 meters worldwide similar to your smartphone GPS[]. And, they also support more precision if desired.
   
   

   

   💡 The 5-meter precision is often enough to locate houses, buildings, landmarks, etc. Smart addresses can also make use of apartment, unit, suite numbers, etc. for improved accuracy or vertical resolution.
3. 📍 TWO IN ONE
   
   Smart addresses also can be used as location code. For instance, you can condense a smart address into an alphanumeric location code called @code. These codes can be used as global zip/pin codes!
   
   

   @7215 BRONZE CASTLE 20
   PARIS +25U53

   A smart address

   =

   @7215BC20+25U53

   Corresponding atCode

   💡 AtCodes get you to the last meter worldwide! You can further shorten them to codes such as @7215, @7215BC, etc. You can augment traditional addresses with atCodes to modernize & optimize logistics planning.
4. 🌍 GLOBAL AREA CODES
   
   The megablock identifiers, aka +FIVE codes, act like global area codes. They are similar to postal codes for unaddressed places. And, they follow a simple 5-character format of +DDADD worldwide. You can use just the first line of a smart address, aka megablock handle, as a local address within your +FIVE area.

   

   

   💡 San Francisco's megablock is about 10 times the size of the entire city (see above). Therefore, the whole city has just one +FIVE code. And, so do most cities. Often, many of the top-10[] megacities in the world have no more than four. The first two digits of the +FIVEs are the longitude bands. And, the middle letters are the latitude bands.
5. ✍️ LOCALIZABLE
   
   Smart addresses can be localized to various country-specific address formats[] and even local languages. Currently, US, France, Germany, India, and Spain address formats are supported.
   

   🇺🇸

   US-style smart address

   @1234 TESLA DRIVE 56
   San Francisco, CA, USA

   🇪🇸

   Spanish-style smart address

   @ISLA ROSA, 1234, 56
   Madrid, Spain

   🇮🇳

   Indian-style smart address

   @2438 गांधी पूरा 1356
   Mumbai, India

   
   

   💡 For international smart addresses, just add the +FIVE in the end!
6. 🧩 INTEROPERABLE
   
   Smart addresses are designed to coexist with real addresses - not replace them. And so, you can use apartment, unit, or suite numbers if available. In fact, you can even use existing zip/pin/postal codes for interoperability.
   
   

   🏢

   🇺🇸 US-interoperable
   Smart Address Format

   @1234 SUPER BLOCK APT 101
   City, State, ZIP

   
   

   💡 Smart addresses can be made interoperable with APO, DPO, & FPO mailing addresses too.[]
7. 🎨 CUSTOMIZABLE
   
   Each smart address can be customized in million+ ways. Customized addresses can convey physical, historical, cultural attributes of places, people, countries, and even your own personal touch. All you have to do is just keep the first letters of the superblock names unchanged.
   
   

   Customized smart addresses to the Eiffel Tower

   🎨 A landmark-based
   customization

   @7215 BIG CASTLE 20
   Paris, France

   👤 A user-based
   customization

   @7215 BRAAVOS CORNER 20
   Paris, France[]

   💡 Just keep the first letters of the superblock the same when customizing a smart address!
8. 🧭 INTUITIVE
   
   Neighboring smart addresses are not only similar but also predictable. And so, you can easily figure out the direction and even distance between any two addresses - all in your head. In fact, you can even tell if a location is in the Northern, Southern, Eastern, or Western Hemisphere just from its +FIVE code.

   Nearby blocklets

   Nearby blocks

   Nearby superblocks

   Nearby megablocks

   💡 The ratio of the cell width to height is cos(latitude). Eiffel Tower's latitude is 48.8 degrees. And so, @7216 BRONZE CASTLE is just 50*cos(48.8) ≃ 33 meters to the east of @7215 BRONZE CASTLE whereas, @7315 BRONZE CASTLE is just 50 meters north of it.
9. 🦾 ERROR RESILIENT
   
   Smart addresses tolerate incorrect/missing components. For instance, they work just fine without town/city names. In fact, they work even without the other components too but with reduced precision.

   Without town/city

   

   @7215 BRONZE CASTLE 20
   +25U53

   ✔️ Still works globally with 5 m precision.

   Without blocklet #

   

   @7215 BRONZE CASTLE
   PARIS +25U53

   ✔️ Works globally with 50 m precision.

   Without block #

   

   @BRONZE CASTLE 20
   PARIS +25U53

   ✔️ Works globally with 4 km precision.

   Without first line

   

   -
   PARIS +25U53

   ✔️ Works globally with 80 km precision.

   💡 In fact, just @7215 BRONZE CASTLE 20 also works with 5-meter precision but only locally within the same +FIVE area. The town/city name in a smart address is optional but recommended for redundancy to recover from +FIVE errors.
10. ＠ ONE-LINE ADDRESSES
    
    The first line of a smart address works as a local address within your megablock. For instance, @101 GOLD FALL 51 or any customized equivalent, can give you 5-meter fix in single-megablock cities such as New York City, Tokyo, Melbourne, etc. And, you can even use just @101 GOLD FALL (without the blocklet) for 50-meter fix!
    
    

    

    

    

    A megablock handle gives you a 5-meter location fix anywhere within your megablock!

    
    

    💡 There are 64M unique handles covering one single megablock. The handles are reused in neighboring megablocks. But you can personalize them in million+ ways to your liking. You can use the megablock handles pointing to your apartment gate, beach, park, etc. for hosting events, meetups, pizza delivery, Instacart, GrubHub, Uber, or other local services. Just add your +FIVE to convert your local handle to a global address!
11. ⬅️ FUTURE-PROOF
    
    Ignoring the plate tectonic effects[], smart addresses are future-proof for centuries. Because they are built on top of the GPS technology, smart addresses point to the same locations despite town/city/locality name changes[] or zip/pin/postal code changes[]. Now, that's a win-win for postal offices, municipalities, businesses, and you.
    
    

    @1042 NEW HILL 95
    Waterloo +11S09

    A smart address
    with old city name

    =

    @1042 NEW HILL 95
    Austin +11S09

    A smart address
    with new city name

    The two smart addresses above point to one and the same location in the city of Austin that was once known as Waterloo - no database updates required!

    
    

    💡 Plate tectonics: Australia moves at a brisk pace of 2.7 inches northward every year while North America moves at 1 inch per year. So, a smart address will have an "off-by-one" (i.e, 5 m) error after 75 years in Australia and 200 years in the US.
12. 🕙 WHAT TIME IS IT?
    
    Smart addresses encode not only space but also time. And so, you can even estimate the time difference between any two addresses just from the first two digits of the +FIVEs (i.e., the longitude bands). For example,
    
    

    ⌚️

    

    
    

    💡 The actual time difference between Paris and San Francisco is 9 hours.
13. 🌐 OFFLINE-FRIENDLY
    
    Smart addresses work offline. There are no complex hashes or closed database lookups. All you need are just your GPS coordinates and a calculator.
    
    

    

    
    

    💡 You can even encode & decode smart addresses with just pen and paper.
14. 🦺 SEARCH & RESCUE
    
    Smart addresses will be helpful for search & rescue operations too. For example, signage, markers, and offline/printed maps can be made available in unaddressed places such as national parks, trails, off-trails, etc., to help people in emergencies.
    
    

    
    A fictitious trailhead post displaying a smart address

    
    

    💡 You can use our app offline too. Just make sure it's in your browser cache.
15. 📦 STANDARDIZED WORLDWIDE
    
    A bad address shouldn't mean an undeliverable package. And, no address shouldn't mean no deliveries. Smart addresses are delivery-friendly because they are standardized, less error-prone, resilient to typos for guaranteed deliveries worldwide. In addition, smart addresses will enable e-commerce, drone delivery, and shipping companies can deliver to the next billion people & next trillion people thanks to our game-changing addressing solution.
    
    

    📬

    💡 Businesses can save on costs associated with Address Information System (AIS) products[] since smart addresses are standardized globally and can be verified easily.

WHO CAN USE SMART ADDRESSES?

Our addressing solution is available for everyone. Developers, businesses, postal offices, organizations, and governments worldwide can start using smart addresses simply by connecting to our API solution. Get your API key today!

IS THERE AN API FOR DEVELOPERS?

Yes, we do. Use smart address API to power your location-based products, platforms & services. And, deliver your products or services to your customer's exact location anywhere! We are also working on launching our own blockchain with distributed logistics ledger to power web3 logistics.

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