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spaces to meet user preferences. To plan for the future,
also consider plumbing for options like automatic
adjustment of hand washing stations and water
dispenser temperature.

• Intelligent, flexible wireless and wired networks. With
the average individual currently carrying three to five
mobile devices, along with connected building systems,
furniture, concentration rooms and meeting spaces,
tens of thousands of devices are now connecting to
enterprise wired and wireless networks and collec-
tively generating a flood of data. Keeping digital
traffic running smoothly and reliably, while minimizing
management overhead, requires flexible, scalable and
proactive IT solutions that streamline and automate
networking tasks.

• Location awareness and analytics. Although location split-second updates that visually represent where your
awareness was once a ‘nice to have’ capability, now people are, who is safe and who needs assistance. This
it’s fundamentally necessary for personalizing IT apps, not only reduces enterprise risk and employee anxiety,
building systems and furnishings to users. What’s it enables negotiating a better insurance position.
more, the data that personalization generates is critical
for analyzing trends to improve space utilization and • Advanced, automated data security. With building
drive down costs. systems, computing devices, location services,
conference rooms and furnishings all communi-
• Smart conference rooms. Beyond the ability for a cating data across your networks, appropriately
conference room to detect that a meeting organizer securing this traffic is more critical than ever before.
has entered the space and automatically prepare Mitigating today’s threats requires speedy detection
the needed amenities for one-touch use, the latest and remediation, making machine learning-enabled
conference room technologies solve a perennial solutions key to ensuring positive worker experiences.
enterprise pain point: releasing booked spaces when
no one attends. In addition to improving facilities Bring the right constituencies together
utilization, user experiences are enhanced by boosting To ensure that building systems and IT solutions interact
the supply of available spaces. harmoniously with humans, it’s vital, at minimum, for three
traditionally separate constituencies to collaborate on
• Cloud-connected furnishings. Everyone works more any smart digital workplace initiative: real estate, IT and
efficiently and effectively when their workspace is human capital. Other groups, such as corporate security,
comfortable and healthy. Connected furnishings may also be wise to involve.
eliminate friction around adjusting desks in
free-address seating environments, enable users to In fact, we’ve seen early efforts run aground precisely
focus on their work – rather than tinkering with their because these groups failed to interact from the
workspace – and help promote personal wellness. beginning. When real estate and IT meet for the first time
at the end of a multi-million dollar project, they frequently
• Smart asset security. Even if bad things don’t learn there’s insufficient network bandwidth or security to
happen at your address, an event next door or a few handle the building and furniture sensor traffic load.
blocks away can impact your facility. Innovative
connected emergency preparedness solutions turn Further, without the involvement of human capital – which
traditional 2-dimensional crisis data into 3D maps and includes workers and HR – real estate and IT lack insight into

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