Workplace Analytics and Sensor Portfolio: Measure How Your Office Is Really Used

Releasing a floor, adding meeting rooms or changing an office attendance policy are expensive decisions to get wrong. This white paper explains how Flowscape measures how offices are actually used, which sensor answers which question, and why most sites need only two or three device types rather than the full portfolio. It is written for Facility Management, Workplace, Real Estate and IT teams that need dependable occupancy data and a clear answer to how that data is protected.

What you will find in the white paper

• How the modular Flowscape platform works, and why most organisations start with analytics before extending to desk and room booking
• The eleven pre-built dashboards and the question each one answers, from portfolio overview and no-shows to room fit and indoor climate
• The four-step method for turning measurement into decisions: agree the goals, design the sensor setup, verify the data and review the results
• A guide for choosing the right device for each question, including options that need no new hardware, such as existing docking stations and video bars
• Technical fact sheets for every device, covering desk, room, people counting, footfall and climate sensors as well as the gateway
• How privacy is handled across the portfolio: no device transmits an image, and presence data is anonymous at source

Why it matters before you buy sensors

Sensor projects often fail for a simple reason, that the organisation starts with hardware instead of the decisions it wants to make. The white paper takes the opposite route. It begins with the questions a workplace team needs answered, then shows which measurement each question requires and what can be reused from the equipment already in the building. That makes it a practical reference when you scope a pilot, brief IT or explain the measurement to employee representatives.

Read more about Workplace Analytics and the sensors used in Flowscape deployments.