Starting today, it is possible to configure what space types go towards the calculation of the building and floor's automatic seating capacity for People metrics. 

The default automatic seating capacity is calculated based on the number of desks. From now on, building administrators can choose from a combination of desks, meeting rooms, collaboration areas, or even a custom capacity for each floor to reflect the changing needs of their activity-based workplace strategy.

The seating capacity of a building or floor is shown in all views within the People metrics category. 

We'd love to hear from you on our feature updates, please reach out to us via support@locatee.com with your feedback!

We're happy to announce the release of a new feature in Locatee Analytics.

People metrics at Floor level

We have now introduced new people metrics at the floor level, just as they are currently available at the building level (Building overview).

People metrics calculate utilisation based on the number of devices seen in a given floor, regardless of which spaces (desks, meeting rooms or other) they are occupying. These people metrics show you how busy each floor is.

The utilisation metric as a % takes the number of people seen in a floor and divides it by the number of desks that happen to be on that floor. Note that can create a situation where utilisation as a % exceeds 100% (more people present than desks available in a given floor).

You can switch between the new People metrics and the pre-existing Space metrics by use of the Spaces - People toggle on the top right of Floors. Note that this toggle is now both present in Building Overview and Floors, and they are kept in sync (Switching it in one place applies to both views).

Since people metrics don’t take into consideration the spaces that are being occupied, the floor plan showing spaces occupied is only available when the Spaces metrics are in use.

We'd love to hear from you on our feature updates, please reach out to us via support@locatee.com with your feedback!

We're happy to announce the release of two new features in Locatee Analytics

Weekly Pattern in Building Overview

The weekly pattern currently available for Spaces and Floors will be now available at the building level in the Building Overview.As with the existing weekly patterns, the patterns are only calculated for time periods between 1 week and 1 quarter.

Weekly Pattern and Timeline Insights

The weekly pattern and Timeline (Visible in Building Overview, Floors and Spaces) now contain a set of insights so that key data points are highlighted directly.

We are continuously working to improve Locatee Analytics based on your feedback. If you would like to get access to new features before anyone else Sign up to become a Beta user, we'd love to give you early access to new and exciting features.

Stay tuned for more!

We're happy to announce that we are releasing Locatee 3.0. With this new version come a lot of exciting updates based on continuous customer feedback, further enabling our users to create a work environment where people love to work.

We'd like to highlight some of these updates:

Even more data sources available in Locatee

For Locatee, catering to the needs and solving the problems of our customers is paramount. A common theme across all our customers, is the existence or availability of multiple data points relating to workplace utilization. However, the shared pain point is that these data points can't be processed together to deliver relevant insights into the workplace. To solve this, we are constantly adding to the sources of data that we can ingest and process in Locatee:

Network Infrastructure Data : Aside from supporting every generation of Cisco and Aruba, we also support Extreme Networks and Mist (Juniper).

Sensor Data : We're happy to announce we have a direct integration with VergeSense sensors so that all occupancy insights can be aggregated in one platform with ease. Additionally, we've improved our algorithms so that networking data and sensor data work together to improve each other's quality seamlessly.

Badge Data : We now also support importing Badge Data (also known as Access Control Data) into Locatee so that you don't have to give up on your historical data sets when adopting and exploring new data sources for continuous workplace insights.

Reports

We're expanding our reporting services with new and exciting insights, a new report gallery will be available to learn more about the tailored services we provide.

Improved usability and experience

You'll note when using Locatee Analytics that we also updated our interface's look & feel, providing a more modern look improving navigation and providing better legibility.

Our Beta Programme

We've streamlined how we update our platform and are increasing the speed at which we deliver improvements. If you would like to get access to new features before anyone else, sign up to become a Beta user, we'd love to give you early access to new and exciting features.

newLook around, does the office seem particularly busier or emptier than usual? Wondering how many people are in right now? Wonder no longer, today we are happy to announce People count in Live View.

With People count in Live View, quickly and easily see how many people are in today in a building or even on each floor.

We are continuously working to improve Locatee Analytics based on your feedback. If you would like to get access to new features before anyone else Sign up to become a Beta user, we'd love to give you early access to new and exciting features.

Stay tuned for more!

newWe have some exciting news! Timeline Downloads has been officially launched in Locatee Analytics.

With Timeline Downloads, you'll be able to download any Utilisation Timeline you see in Locatee Analytics in CSV format, be it at the building level or something more granular such as at floor, zone or neighbourhood levels.

Stay tuned for more!

Hybrid work and new models have changed the way we analyze capacity and utilization of space. Employees and their changing needs are becoming more important when it comes to decisions regarding workplaces. And that’s why Locatee introduces different metrics per building. You can now use a toggle on the building overview to switch between space utilization and people attendance. 

Space utilization shows all measurements assigned to a dedicated place within an office where work can get done. A space could be a single desks, a meeting room, a collaboration area, or others. 

People attendance measures how employees engage with the office, it’s the number of individuals in the building, no matter where they are located. 

Learn more about our new feature and for which use cases you can use which metric in the video we’ve created for you. 

If you have feedback, please reach out to us at support@locatee.com, we're happy to hear from you!

Watch the video!

Cisco DNA Spaces

Cisco DNA Spaces is now available as a data source in Locatee. In case that you want to make use of Cisco DNA Spaces in your Locatee setup, please get in touch with us. 

We wish you all a wonderful spring time!

Colored utilization timeline for better visualization and easy identification of target breaches

You  may have already noticed - the utilization timeline has a new design! 

Each column (representing a day, an hour, or 15 min) is now colored based on your target utilization:

• Red: Measurement breaches the target utilization set for this building for the period and is >100%. 
• Yellow: The measurement is close to target utilization with 80-100% of target utilization.
• Green: Utilization is within target, meaning between 40-80% or even below 40%.

The legend is displayed above the utilization timeline, representing the buckets in % based on the target utilization. 

This feature lets you identify at a glance if utilization breaches target or is close to target in a given building, floor or space. 

Easier navigation by linking the whole row to the detailed view

Now you can click on any row in a table to get redirected to that specific view immediately. You no longer need to scroll horizontally to get to the Details button, instead you benefit from more space to see your KPIs in the table and the ability to click on the row itself. 

Floor Utilization Peaks by Space Category (e.g.zones)

This new view is to be found in the "Floors" section as a new tab under “Utilization by space category”.

If your building is organized in space categories (e.g. zones) that are repeated on each floor, this view allows you to look at the state of the building. New in this overview is it therefore to be able to look at all floors at once!

The matrix shows utilization peaks per zone and floor allowing you to identify which zones can be rebalanced to optimally use the space for your employees.

N/A in this context means that this particular zone doesn't exist on this floor.