In today’s world, managing large estates, especially those with multiple campuses or buildings, can be an overwhelming task. From ensuring spaces are well-utilised to optimising cleaning schedules and securing areas, facilities managers have a lot on their plate. But what if there was a way to gain real-time insights into occupancy across your estate, without the need for new hardware or disruptive installations? That’s where Switchshop's OccuFi comes in. OccuFi is a cutting-edge, data-driven tool designed to help facilities managers, estates teams, and IT professionals better understand how their campus is being used. Using your existing HPE Aruba Wireless Networking infrastructure, OccuFi offers real-time occupancy insights that can transform how you manage your estate, improve resource allocation, and enabling data-driven estate decision making.
Seamless Integration with Your Existing Wireless Network Infrastructure
One of the standout features of OccuFi is that it works with your existing HPE Aruba wireless infrastructure. That means no need to purchase additional sensors, cameras, or footfall counters. The system works by analysing wireless data from Aruba access points and controllers to gather occupancy data. It tracks wireless client devices, such as laptops, smartphones, and smartwatches, providing you with valuable insights into how each zone of your estate is being utilised. This enables you to optimise your space without any extra cost for new hardware or network rewiring.
Real-Time Data on Estate Usage
Gone are the days of manually monitoring foot traffic or relying on guesswork. OccuFi gives you live, real-time data about the usage of each zone in your estate. Whether it’s understanding teaching vs student spaces, specific departments within a building, or even specific floors of a building, OccuFi helps you understand how busy each area is at any given moment. This means you’ll have accurate real-world data to inform decision making, helping you optimise utilisation of buildings or classrooms, understand time spent in commercial areas of campus, adjust facility staffing, monitor specific security routes, or even plan more effective cleaning schedules!
Customisable Zones for Your Estate
Facilities managers can define the layout of their estate as they see fit by creating custom zones for specific purposes. Whether you want to track the foot traffic in administrative offices, monitor student activity in common areas, or track activity in specific areas of particular buildings, OccuFi offers total flexibility. You can set up overlapping zones to ensure each team, whether it’s estates, security, commercial, or IT- gets the data they need, tailored to their specific requirements.
Actionable Insights for Improved Decision-Making
With the data provided by OccuFi, you’ll be able to identify trends and patterns that would be difficult to spot otherwise. For example:
Space PlanningDetermine which areas are underutilised and which are overcrowded, to make more informed decisions about estate layout, planning, and design.
Movement Across Campus
Understand how people are moving across your campus, and how much time they’re spending in specific zones.
Cleaning Schedules
Identify areas of your estate that require more frequent cleaning based on traffic patterns and occupancy levels.
Security Alerts
Identify unusual or increased foot traffic in certain areas, helping security teams stay on top of potential security issues.
OccuFi’s intuitive dashboards provide easy-to-understand visualisation of this data, so you can make decisions quickly and effectively. You can also stream granular data into your own BI and building management systems, enabling you to correlate occupancy data with other management reporting.
Enhanced Network Performance Insights
For IT teams working alongside facilities management, OccuFi also provides insight into real-world wireless client performance. By analysing client device signal strengths, IT teams can assess the network’s current performance across different zones on the estate. This helps with long-term planning for infrastructure upgrades, ensuring that the network is ready to support the growing demand for connectivity across your estate.
Data Privacy at its Core
In an era where data privacy is more important than ever, OccuFi ensures that sensitive information is protected. The system anonymises client device data, encrypting it as it is collected and processed. No personal data is ever stored, and access to anonymise data is strictly controlled to protect privacy. Facilities managers can rest assured that their data usage complies with all relevant regulations, including GDPR.
Simple Setup and Onboarding
Getting started with OccuFi is quick and easy. Facilities managers can utilise the Switchshop Customer Portal to onboard their estate, configure zones, and begin receiving occupancy data with minimal effort. Plus, you don’t need to worry about ongoing maintenance, as Switchshop’s solution is designed to be low touch while still providing powerful, actionable insights.
A Step Towards Smarter Estates
At Switchshop, we believe in the power of data to make better decisions and optimise how facilities are managed. OccuFi is a key part of this mission, helping facilities managers streamline estate operations, improve space usage, and enhance overall estate management. Whether you’re managing a single campus or a multi-site estate, OccuFi helps you achieve a smarter, more efficient, and data-driven approach to estate management.
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