Occupancy sensors

Occupancy sensors to optimise office productivity

Add anonymous workplace occupancy sensors and environmental sensors to your buildings. Support team productivity with real-time displays and detailed usage insights to maximise space utilisation and identify cost reductions. 

Occupancy and environmental IOT sensors

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How Matrix Booking occupancy sensors work

Using people counting sensors and occupancy sensors to understand how workspaces are being used, so you can evolve your spaces and resource mix based on accurate, reliable data.

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Identify opportunities to reduce costs and environmental impact, using office sensors, people counting sensors, or environmental sensors.

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Use desk occupancy sensors to display live availability for your free seating areas, so staff without bookings can quickly find a desk.

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Track usage in breakout zones and informal spaces. Use office sensors to help colleagues find suitable spaces using real-time occupancy data. 

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Ensure you’re providing safe and comfortable workspaces by monitoring temperature, air quality, and more. 

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Provide real-time environmental and occupancy data so employees can find a space where they’ll be most comfortable.

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Types of office sensors

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Occupancy sensors

Anonymously detect when a desk, phone pod, or room is occupied.

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People-counting sensors

Anonymously count how many people are in a room or informal space.

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Environmental sensors

Monitor a variety of factors, including temperature, noise, and air quality.

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Strategically optimise workspaces with sensor insights

Combine occupancy sensor data with desk booking software insights in Matrix Booking for a complete view of workspace utilisation

A team may book a meeting room for 10 people for two hours. But just five attend in person and the meeting only lasts an hour. Someone may book a desk for a day, but only use it for a few hours.  

Sensor data in Matrix Booking shows you resource utilisation in real time, meaning you know what’s actually happening in your offices, and can monitor trends. 

Use these insights to intelligently adjust your blend of desks, rooms, collaboration spaces, and other resources, in response to how you know people are using them.

Dashboards and reports help identify tactical savings 

Administrators and facilities teams can see occupancy and environmental information in real-time dashboards and historical reports, and combine this with resource booking and check-in data. 

These can bring to light opportunities for quick savings. For instance, office sensors may show some zones are lightly used at certain times. Close these areas during quiet periods to reduce the cost and environmental impact of heating, cooling, lighting, and cleaning. 

Quiet weekdays may also be the perfect time to carry out maintenance, instead of paying higher weekend or evening rates.

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Real-time desk availability displays

Do you have free seating areas as well as bookable desks? Desk occupancy sensors in your free seating zones let you display live availability on interactive in-building screens, or the Matrix Booking mobile app. 

This helps people without bookings quickly find space to work.

  

Find informal spaces faster with office sensors

Informal spaces, such as sofa areas, games rooms, and cafés, are popular locations for ad hoc meetings or a change of scenery. Help employees find space fast, by adding occupancy sensors to your informal areas and displaying live information on in-building screens, or the mobile app.

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Ensure you’re providing safe and comfortable workspaces

Environment and air quality sensors enable remote monitoring of your offices. Spot potential problems early, so you can ensure you’re meeting your health and safety responsibilities. 

Then go further by combining environmental data with booking, occupancy, and utilisation insights, to spot links between people’s resource usage and environmental factors. Are some rooms seeing much lower use at certain times of day? Environmental data may show these spaces becoming much warmer at these times. Cooling them down could encourage more people to use them. 

Monitor data such as temperature, noise levels, CO2, humidity, and pollutants.

  

Help staff to be more productive

Some employees love working in a bustling office. Others are more productive in a quieter space. Some prefer it warm, while others like it cooler. 

Use environmental sensors to display data about different parts of your buildings when people book desks and rooms in Matrix Booking. This helps everyone choose space where they’ll be most comfortable and productive. 

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Flexible deployment models

Procure your occupancy sensors, people counting sensors, and environmental sensors in a way that suits you. 

Most customers choose the simplicity of our Hardware as a Service (HaaS) package, where we provide everything you need for a fixed monthly cost. Under HaaS, we’ll also remotely monitor your setup and apply patches as these become available. If a component goes wrong, we’ll fix or replace it. 

You can also buy our sensors from us outright, or use existing office sensors or Internet of Things (IoT) sensors (subject to compatibility). 

  

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A way to understand office utilisation…

“Data is everything to the civil service and we’re really going to be able to fully understand office utilisation going forward – especially with the shift to hybrid working and more collaborative space in our offices.”

Greg Chammings – Deputy Estates Director, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

The Matrix Booking difference

  • Simplify workplace management across estates and resources.
  • Set custom business rules and permissions with our powerful self-service engine.
  • Designed for security, accessibility and ease of implementation.
  • Give employees seamless access to desks, rooms, parking, and more.

Explore how else Matrix Booking can help you

Employees can search for desks in any of your buildings or shared hubs, find colleagues, make bookings for their team, and more.


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People can find rooms that meet their needs, including location, facilities, capacity, and accessibility. Add equipment, catering, and other essentials. 

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Efficiently manage visitor sign in systems across your sites, ensuring a secure welcome and clear communication of health and safety procedures.

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Powerful reports help you keep track of occupancy levels, usage trends, and more, so that you can continually optimise your estates. 

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Optimise your workplace with sensors

See how Matrix Booking’s occupancy and environmental sensors help you track usage, enhance comfort, and cut costs.