FEATURE CELLULAR, WIFI AND IOT SPACE, THE NEXT
IOT FRONTIER Smart systems, analytics and the cost-effective use of business space
In keeping with this month’s focus on IoT Smart systems, Dave Weidner, senior director, Pelion market development, Arm, discusses the company’s recent ‘space analytics’ programme with Christian Lynn, Editor of Electronics
Christian Lynn: Starting with the foundations, “smart analytics” programmes are increasing in capacity. Why do you think the demand has increased?
Dave Weidner: Commercial building property managers are under pressure to maximise value per square foot, delivering optimal experiences for their occupants. This, along with the emergence of coworking spaces, is driving demand for technologies that provide a better understanding of how space is being optimised. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to provide more analytics and reporting with actionable insights, such as room occupancy and historical usage, people flow heatmaps, and desk utilisation. The Arm Space Analytics offering, which is part of its Pelion Smart Spaces solutions, enables commercial building, coworking spaces and hotel property managers to gather, analyse, visualise and predict space usage and availability.
CL: Does Arm see itself spearheading this movement towards complete interconnectivity within social milieus?
DW: Arm values its broad hardware, software and ecosystem partners, and works to develop technology that supports interconnected systems in all market industries. Moreover, the Space Analytics solution also works with off-the-shelf IoT devices and existing infrastructure to best fit customers’ use cases and needs. Arm’s Pelion IoT platform offers device lifecycle management that is agnostic to the device maker, communication protocol, or cloud vendor. Pelion Data Management allows enterprises to securely collect data from any connected
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device and combine it with a large set of enterprise datapoints. Pelion Connectivity Management enables the easy, secure, and cost-effective connection of IoT devices on multiple network standards with a single, global mobility contract. Lastly, gateways play a critical role in IoT by acting as a bridge between local wired and wireless connected devices, enabling local applications to control devices. Pelion Edge enables these protocols to be translated into IP, so non-IP devices can connect to Pelion Device Management and be managed simultaneously.
CL: Dogpatch Labs is one of the first companies to integrate Arm’s Space Analytics programme into its operation. What results has it garnered? And have the results produced short-term or long-term plans in terms of improving the use of space?
DW: Dogpatch Labs has been using Arm’s Space Analytics solution to improve the dynamic management of spaces throughout its facilities. The aim of applying Arm’s solution was to dramatically improve the utilisation of spaces and significantly increase return on investment. Dogpatch is leveraging the solution for
hotdesking and insights into events in their Urban Garden area. For hotdesking, Dogpatch aims to understand and optimise space layout (e.g. how are the desks being utilised and how
An example of the analytics and the data that the system extrapolates
they configure the furniture based on this analysis). The visualisation that Space Analytics provides Dogpatch Labs helps them understand, analyse and optimise space availability, using heatmaps and reports on a per-room and per tenant basis.
CL: How does one improve that beyond an analysis platform that enables the prediction and adjustment of the use of utilities and space? Is there a step further than this that Arm wishes to take?
DW: Buildings are where people live, work, learn, meet, heal, entertain and shop. Research has found that people spend approximately 90 per cent of their time indoors, and companies that employ them are spending a considerable amount of their building’s total operating costs on people-related expenses. Property management firm Jones Lang
LaSalle’s 3-30-300 thumb rule still holds true today – on average, companies spend $3 in utilities, $30 in rent and $300 payroll per square foot. Addressing the needs of buildings’ occupants thus becomes the highest priority for smart building technologies. Arm believes that IoT will help companies enhance the well-being and security of occupants, and boost profits through productivity and efficiency gains. It will allow building engineers and facility managers to implement cost effective improvements that will reduce the corporate carbon footprint and expenses. It will also improve employee morale and increase the operational and financial performance of buildings by optimising productivity.
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