Smart Office
CBRE's survey puts average office use at only about 60%. Meeting rooms sit empty and still clash on the calendar. Lighting and air conditioning account for more than half of building energy use. Booking clashes, wasted floor area, wasted energy, and scattered attendance and access systems are the daily problems. Built on IoT and artificial intelligence, this solution runs the workplace as one system.
Rooms can be booked, occupancy is sensed, temperature and humidity and lighting adjust on their own, and attendance sits with access control. Meeting-room use rises about 40%. The workplace is more comfortable. Energy use falls about 25%. The result is an efficient, comfortable, lower-carbon office. BMS, building controls, and OA can be connected so the data is shared and managed in one place.
Where it hurts, and who uses it
The friction: Rooms are both impossible to book and sitting empty, because nobody can see occupancy live. Fixed desks waste floor area, and flexible work has no data behind it. Air conditioning and lighting run by zone, including rooms with nobody in them. Attendance, access, and visitor systems are separate, so administration is slow. Who it is for: A technology headquarters of about a thousand people — booking, occupancy, and environment linked, with utilization from 55% to 85%. Coworking — shared desks, rooms booked as needed, and member access without a receptionist. Government offices — rooms, attendance, and visitors in one system, with the security and compliance those sites require.
