Smart Spaces

Smart Spaces are becoming ubiquitous today for a variety of macro-economic factors including workplace trends (recent impact due to the pandemic has been very visible), Sustainability, Cost Optimization & Lease Accounting rules. Smart Spaces also impact major workstreams within the business such as Design, Construction, Facility Services, Transportation, Meetings, Parking & Wayfinding.

The evolution of Smart Spaces is largely driven by customer/tenant experience evolutions themselves over time. Whereas initially, Facility Managers were focused on the baseline scenarios such as managing energy or equipment, evolved scenarios such as Ease of Access, Space Utilization & Onsite Services came next. However, in today’s Digital world, there is an expectation that Smart Spaces can also adapt to the customer/tenant’s need or make it easier for tenants to find what they need quickly.

Smart Spaces today therefore impact all potential scenarios across Industry sectors to better manage Facility Operations, Workspace Utilization, Energy Management as well as Meetings, Navigation, Parking. Most importantly, Smart Spaces impact Individuals, Groups, Organizations to find people, know their individual & group preferences, know their spaces, and provide real-time targeted assistance to all of them. In essence, Smart Spaces is the collective cross-industry interconnected solution landscape that is emerging rapidly linking Things, Insights & Actions that is all powered by the Cloud, but supported by enterprise class security, high availability, deployment at scale.