1. Measure real-time people occupancy in workplaces by floors and defined zones

2. Use historical occupancy and asset data for space usage trends and workplace planning

3. Ability to leverage network as a source of data for enabling smart sustainable workplaces tuned for energy efficiency and employee experience and wellbeing

4. Data insights to support forecast and planning of network optimisations to be low carbon and energy efficient

5. Improved data to support building facilities operational management

6. Enables pathway for integration of Cisco Spaces to other smart building energy management solutions such as Johnsons Controls OpenBlue, via API

7. Support workplace collaborations via integrations with solutions for smart rooms enablement and indoor navigation.

Step by step smart sustainable workplaces journey enabled by BT:

1. Measure the estimated carbon footprint of your IT & network infrastructure for free – including estimated energy use with Digital Carbon Calculator.

2. Talk to us about how we can support you leverage and uplift your network to unlock value and data insights for smart occupancy management

3. Leverage infrastructure more to incorporate further services that support you towards achieving smart buildings and net zero goals.

4. Enablement of Spaces to get started on occupancy and workplace space management optimisation.

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Talk to your BT Account team to invoke the Smart Sustainability Workplaces product teams who will be able to advise and help you technically. Our Sustainability team can support you with measuring the carbon and enery footprint of your existing network infrastructure. Our product and prortfolio colleagues can help identify use cases specific to your requirements and support you with network infrastructure solutions to assess the potential of the gains you can make. Where you require Spaces solutions we can support you with the necessary product and licenses to enable you to get started easily towards smart occupancy and space management.

We can help by first examining the exisiting Cisco network infrastructure in your workplace. By evaluating the existing LAN, Wi-Fi, Wireless set up, we can then recommend the appropriate technical actions and solutions you need to get started to meaure occupancy within your workplaces. We may need to perform Wi-Fi surveys or suggest appropriate infrastructure ( e.g. Wireless First, Wi-Fi 7 etc) to help you. Depending on your requirements, we can support you on appropriate network designs and licenses that enable occupancy measure and management. Leveraging the basic infrastructure and enabling Spaces connectivity to map your workplaces will then start you towards see how your workplaces are being utilised. The first step is to see how we can use your existing infrastructure and then offer further options to build upon and develop maturity of your solution. It is outcome based driven by your use cases.

Within Spaces you can click on the "Right Now" module and select the building and floor you want. This will immediately display the occupancy count detected.

By clicking on the "Detect & Locate" (with Advantange Spaces licenses) you can select specific building floors to see a map layout of the occupancy heat map in real time. Space Manager is another module that allows you to view the changing occupancy over the last 24 hour period to trends. These modules enable a real-time snapshot of occupancy.

For more details, Spaces providesin-built standard occupancy reports in various categories that can be accessed via the Location Analytics menu option. Within this menu, the Custom Reports option also allows some personalised reports to be designed and run.