smart office connected with Taitori
The smart office solutions market will grow at a CAGR of over 14% through 2020-2024, a development that has been accelerated by Covid-19 and the need for more digitised space monitoring solutions and increased hygiene and cleaning.
Taitori is a Finnish smart office company that provides new kinds of solutions for easier management and booking of premises and for smoother reporting. Taitori’s objective is that people always have just the right amount of space for various encounters. Taitori’s complete smart office solutions include space and workstations booking, catering orders, visitor management, info screens, and space usage analysis and reports.
The challenge
Taitori platform solution (to manage smart offices) needed to find a reliable hardware partner with sensor devices that would fit their demands: wireless, battery-powered devices with long battery lives for visitor counting and occupancy monitoring.
Another challenge was the long reporting intervals many occupancy monitoring solutions offered: a good smart office solution requires real-time occupancy information so that people can see and reserve free spaces even on a moments’ notice.
The solution
The occupancy monitoring is done with wireless Haltian Thingsee PRESENCE sensor devices. The sensors are placed on workstations, phone booths and other meeting spaces where they report the occupancy with a very short interval through Thingsee GATEWAY devices and the entire solution is integrated to Taitori’s smart office platform, where the users can see the occupancy information, book spaces, and further analyze the data for better space usage. The solution also includes Thingsee device management and support.
The Wirepas connectivity in Haltian Thingsee sensors was another important factor in why Taitori chose Haltian as their partner: Haltian sensors could ‘free’ the occupancy of a phone booth in a minute, whereas the competitor’s solution did in 15 minutes.
Another important thing for Taitori has been the ability to manage the settings of the sensor devices themselves: not all sensors need the same reporting settings and detection sensitivity, so it is important for the customer to be able to manage the devices remotely themselves.
Haltian Thingsee PRESENCE sensors
Thingsee GATEWAY GLOBAL
RESULTS : Smart offices easy and fast
The occupancy monitoring for meeting rooms, phone booths and workstations makes the use of space and assets much more efficient.
Taitori’s smart office customers include many companies and enterprises whose offices and meeting rooms have been made smart.
Haltian sensors were first taken into use at Taitori’s own office and big customer installations have been made. Taitori has been particularly impressed with Haltian’s quick delivery times of their IoT sensors even during the COVID-19 crisis.
Taitori believes that even though office spaces are changing and the number of people working in offices might decrease, the need to invest in technology increases:
“Now we can have limits for space usage that can automatically be seen from the smart office platform. You don’t have to make an unnesassry trip to the office just to see that all the workspaces are already taken when the information is easily availble remotely. Smart office technologies make the safe return to the office possible.”
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