People Counting & Occupancy Insights
Our low cost solution helps gather invaluable insights to optimise your corporate real estate spend
Low Cost People Counting with Rapid Return on Investment
Are you flying blind on occupancy data across your real estate?
Are your inefficient spaces draining your bottom line?
Without accurate occupancy data, companies like yours are spending millions on unnecessary rent, utilities and maintenance.
Traditional methods, such as access badge data or manual head counts are unreliable, costly and inefficient.
We've simplified the whole process to give you a low cost starting point to empower Facility Managers to make data driven decisions.
We also provide an additional set of benefits to Landlords to leverage value added services for their Tennants.
Read our Case Study for our State Government customer.
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Features and Benefits
Low Cost
Our solution offers a simple, scalable approach that gives you valuable insights, rapid return on investment and does not require a substantial investment in hardware, setup and ongoing fees. We can also support a Proof of Concept on your site to demonstrate benefits.
Live Analytics and Cost Scenarios
Our analytics engine gives you highly accurate occupancy patterns throughout every day ensuring you understand your peak occupancy levels against seating capacity. We can also apply your leasing or budgeted costs to illustrate potential savings as well as scenario modelling for alternative capacity planning.
Ongoing Consultation and Support
We work with you on an ongoing basis to review your data and share our expertise and observations. Our approach is very much a partnership, based on ensuring our customers are able to interpret the data and see true benefits.
Relocate and Re-use
We have a range of devices to suit your requirements and deployment needs. They can be easily relocated to other sites if you wish to conduct periodic studies at multiple locations. A once-off investment will continue to deliver ongoing benefits across multiple locations.
Customised Data
We know from experience that this is not a "one size fits all" solution. There are always unique data scenarios for each customer and we will work with you to customise any reporting needs as part of our standard engagement.
Zero I.T. Impact
Our solution does not touch any part of your I.T. infrastructure which limits any extensive cyber approvals. This means we can deploy quickly and simply, managing the whole setup and ongoing operation on your behalf.
Attention Landlords !
Our solution offers a simple and effective way for Landlords to engage on a different level with their Tennants. By helping Tennant's understand how their spaces are being used there are a number of benefits to exploit.
Proactive Tennant Support
Offer value-added services to support Tennants and increase chances of retention.
Reduce Vacancy Rates
Tenants are more likely to stay in right-sized spaces. Help them understand what they need and if required, move them to another property within your portfolio.
Increased Tennant Satisfaction
Help tenants optimise their space utilisation and improve the workplace experience.
Competitive Advantage
Differentiate your offering with innovative solutions that offer real value to Tennants and solidify relationships
Case Study
The Problem
Our customer is a unit of a very large State Government Department. One of their key office locations houses 3 floors and the Facilities Management team had no idea how well the site was being attended by staff. They were considering either consolidating space to reduce their leasing requirements or potentially closing other sites and relocating staff to this building. They knew that access control systems would not provide accurate data given the number of staff who follow each other in and out of each floor without the need to scan security passes.
They needed highly accurate data with flexible reporting views that would allow them to make an informed decision on what next steps may be.
Our Approach
A technology based solution that properly tracked activity on all floors 24 x 7 would deliver the best results. A manual occupancy study would not deliver the depth of data required and was not cost effective or accurate. Installing occupancy sensors to cover every desk in the building would provide the most granular data however this would also come at a significant cost. For a fraction of the cost we installed sensors at all entry and exit points which would count people as they entered and exited multiple doors on each floor. The sensors on each floor were virtually meshed so an accurate count per floor was maintained no matter which doors were used. Our sensors connect to a dedicated gateway which means we did not need to touch any of our customer's I.T. infrastructure allowing expedited approval. This approach would deliver highly accurate, real-time insights across building, floor, day of week and time of day. Our customer could choose to have scheduled reports delivered or login to our analytics engine and review data on demand.
Key Highlights
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Peak occupancy across the entire building for the 6 month reporting window was 67%. This represents the highest level of occupancy at any point during the reporting window and means when the building is at its fullest, there are still 134 seats vacant. This represents an opportunity saving of over $1M per annum.
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The highest occupied floor reached a peak of 82% and the lowest 58%
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Monday - Wednesday are the best attended days on each floor. Thursday and Friday drop off significantly with Friday falling as low as 46%, 29% and 26% for each floor.
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The customer was able to use our reporting system to run various scenarios including changes to the days that staff work, closing off a floor, bringing in staff from other buildings and more.
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The customer has the option to deploy a number of desk sensors to determine behaviour of specific teams or zones on each floor to aid more detailed analysis and decision making.
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The customer was also able to use occupancy data to request changes to air-conditioning start and end times with the building owner.