Spaces Variety: The Need for a Unified Occupancy Data System
The workplace has undergone a profound transformation. What was once a relatively uniform landscape of cubicles and conference rooms, post pandemic, has morphed into a dynamic and diverse space types, each designed to support a specific work mode.
At PointGrab, we believe the power lies in a comprehensive, unified approach to occupancy data. As your trusted partner for the intelligent workplace, we are strategically expanding our sensing portfolio to provide the right measurement for the right space, ensuring unparalleled coverage for every corner of your evolving workplace.
Understanding the nuanced usage of diverse space types is paramount. A phonebooth demands different insights than a 20-person executive meeting room, and a quiet zone requires different coverage than a bustling collaboration hub.
The Hybrid Imperative: Design Variety & Nuanced Usage:
The shift to hybrid work is not merely a trend; it’s a fundamental recalibration of how and where work gets done. Post-pandemic office design reflects a clear understanding that employees are no longer expected to simply “come and sit at your desk all day.” Instead, offices are becoming curated destinations, as recent data reveals:
- Quiet Work Pods & Phone Booths: Recognizing the need for focused work amidst open plans, these acoustically designed spaces are increasingly common. (Fortune Business Insights).
- Collaboration Zones & Huddle Spaces & Game Space: The office is now seen as a hub for connection. These areas are equipped with comfortable furniture, advanced communication tools to facilitate remote interactions and recreational spaces to wind down and collegial interactions (Office Design Trends That Will Redefine The World Of Workspaces In 2024 | Dessana).
- Connected Meeting Rooms: Conference rooms of all sizes are being reconfigured to link all participants, regardless of their location, with large screens and robust internet (Astute Analytics, Oct 2024).
- Wellness Areas & Social Spaces: Beyond work-focused zones, offices are integrating amenities like meditation rooms, fitness centers, and lounge areas to promote mental and physical well-being and foster a sense of community. Morgan Lovell’s 2025 trends emphasize wellness-focused design with features like “Dedicated relaxation zones” and “Fitness facilities.” (Source: Office design trends 2025 | Morgan Lovell)
The challenge for workplace leaders is clear: which space is actually being used? which type we have too little of? How to move beyond anecdotal observations to a comprehensive source of truth across all of the spaces variety?
Tailoring Intelligence: The PointGrab Sensor Portfolio
As a data collection company our portfolio allows offering the right capability in the right sensor, each designed for optimal capture of occupancy data in the specific space type:
- For individual focus spaces: Compact, presence sensors ideal for phone booths, and quiet rooms, providing accurate presence detection with optimized costs.
- For collaborative zones: Wide-coverage sensors with advanced analytics to understand behavior of the open huddle spaces, areas of interest within the space, dwell time, discerning activity levels and group sizes.
- For formal meeting rooms: High-precision sensors capable of accurately counting occupants and pinpoint space usage, as well as cleanness, while integrating in real time with signage and booking systems.
- For entire floors, zones and buildings: people count measures traffic in/out to gain insight on traffic patterns and net occupancy across the floor.
- For specialty spaces: granular monitoring that identifies usage of tiny spaces with special equipment or unique furniture to prove ROI and understand demand trends
Our product approach is focused on simplification of deployment, ease of integration, and reduced security risks. Instead of juggling multiple vendors to cover all space types, you can now source all your occupancy data from a single, trusted provider – PointGrab.
The PointGrab Advantage: Unified, Trusted, Future-Ready Occupancy Intelligence
In a world where workplace strategies are constantly evolving, relying on fragmented data sources is a weak proposition. Reliably and accurately collecting occupancy data is the first step, and a critical one, for a unified, accessible, and actionable data strategy. PointGrab offers a singular, trusted and managed source for all your occupancy intelligence needs. Our robust, secure platform brings together all data points from a tailored sensor portfolio, providing the data source needed for variety of applications.
With PointGrab, you gain:
- Simplified Deployment & Reduced Integration Complexity: A single vendor for a diverse sensor portfolio reduces complexity and accelerates high quality installation. All sensors then seamlessly flow workplace data into a unified cloud platform with open API, ready for integration with any workplace management applications.
- Vetted Security & Privacy Assurance: Our commitment to privacy-by-design is paramount. PointGrab sensors are developed with robust privacy features, collecting only anonymous occupancy data. It is then vetted by corporate security teams and adheres to the highest standards of data protection, ensuring trust and confidence for secure and responsible workplace management.
- Both Real-time & Historical Data Under the Same Roof: Access to immediate occupancy data, or aggregated or historical one for whatever use case you need th data for
- Future Proof: This unified sensor data system morphs with your evolving hybrid work model, supporting a slew of current and future applications. Programable end-points and a robust algo layers on the cloud side allows innovation both in terms of data and insights.
- High Availability: A sensor data system that scales, can easily add more monitored spaces, accessible across continents and with 99.8% availability rate. Such a system assures that the applications get the right data on time all the time.
Conclusion
The modern hybrid office is a complex, multifaceted asset class. Unlocking its full potential requires intelligence, precision, and a unified view. PointGrab’s portfolio of sensors and cloud data platform delivers insights on the match between supply and demand