From your existing wireless network, OccuFi® helps colleges and Multi-Academy Trusts better understand how their buildings and facilities are being used through occupancy insights generated from their existing wireless network.
Understanding how your buildings and facilities are being used is essential for effective estate planning, resource allocation and operational efficiency. OccuFi helps schools, academies and Multi-Academy Trusts gain valuable insights into occupancy, dwell time and movement across their estate using existing wireless infrastructure. It requires no sensors, cameras, or additional hardware, allowing organisations to unlock actionable estate intelligence from the network they already own.
Understand How Your Educational Estate Is Really Being Used
Many schools and trusts rely on manual surveys, assumptions, and fragmented data when deciding on space utilisation, facilities management, and future estate investment.
OccuFi transforms anonymised wireless data into clear, easy-to-understand occupancy insights, helping education leaders make informed decisions based on real-world usage patterns rather than estimates. It provides visibility into how buildings, departments and shared spaces are used throughout the day, across a single site or multiple locations.
Why Colleges and MATs Choose OccuFi
No Additional Hardware Required
OccuFi uses existing wireless access points to generate occupancy insights, removing the cost and disruption associated with deploying dedicated monitoring systems.
Improve Space Utilisation
Identify underused classrooms, communal spaces and buildings to help maximise the value of your educational estate.
Support Smarter Timetabling
Understand how demand changes across the day and use data to support timetabling and room allocation decisions.
Improve Facilities Management
Align cleaning schedules and operational services with actual building usage to improve efficiency.
Plan Future Investments
Use historical occupancy trends to support estate planning, refurbishment projects and long-term investment decisions.
Privacy-First Design
All data is anonymised and encrypted, helping educational organisations meet data protection and privacy requirements.
How OccuFi Works
OccuFi transforms data from your existing wireless network into valuable occupancy insights, helping colleges and MATs better understand how their buildings and spaces are being used. Using anonymised wireless data, the platform measures occupancy levels, dwell time and movement patterns across your estate without the need for additional sensors, cameras or monitoring hardware.
The data is securely processed and mapped to your chosen buildings, floors or zones, providing a clear view of how different areas are being utilised throughout the day. These insights are then presented through intuitive dashboards, giving estates, facilities and leadership teams access to real-time and historical information that can be used to support planning, resource allocation and operational decision-making. Data can also be exported or integrated into existing reporting platforms for further analysis and reporting.
Common Education Use Cases
Classroom Utilisation: Understand which teaching spaces are used most frequently and identify opportunities to improve classroom utilisation across your estate.
Estate Planning: Support refurbishment, consolidation and expansion decisions using occupancy trends and historical usage data.
Student Movement Analysis: Visualise how students and staff move between buildings and key areas of your campus or school site.
Study and Communal Space Management: Understand usage patterns in libraries, study areas, dining facilities and communal spaces to better align resources with demand.
Sustainability Initiatives: Identify opportunities to optimise energy usage and support sustainability objectives through a better understanding of occupancy patterns.
Multi-Site Trust Visibility: Gain insights across multiple sites and locations from a single platform, supporting strategic planning and resource allocation across the trust.
Why Occupancy Data Matters
Educational organisations face increasing pressure to maximise budgets, improve operational efficiency and create better learning environments.
Without accurate information on how buildings are being used, it can be difficult to justify investment decisions, optimise facilities or understand changing patterns of demand. OccuFi provides the data needed to make evidence-based decisions across your estate, helping transform existing wireless infrastructure into a strategic planning tool.
Meet the Team at Education Estates 2026
Education Estates brings together education leaders, estates professionals, facilities teams and technology specialists to explore the future of education environments. As colleges and Multi-Academy Trusts look for smarter ways to manage their estates, occupancy data is becoming increasingly valuable for informed planning and operational decision-making.
We’re attending Education Estates 2026 and will be demonstrating how OccuFi helps education organisations gain greater visibility into building utilisation, occupancy trends and movement patterns using their existing wireless infrastructure. By transforming existing Wi-Fi data into actionable insights, colleges and MATs can make more informed decisions around estates planning, resource allocation and operational efficiency.
Whether you’re looking to optimise learning spaces, improve facilities management or gain a better understanding of how your estate is being used, we’d love to show you how OccuFi can help.
Attending Education Estates 2026?
Find out more about the event and where to meet the Switchshop education team on our Education Estates 2026 event page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is OccuFi?
OccuFi is a Wi-Fi-based occupancy analytics platform that provides insights into occupancy, dwell time and movement across buildings and estates using existing wireless infrastructure.
Does OccuFi require additional hardware?
No. OccuFi leverages existing wireless infrastructure and does not require sensors, cameras or footfall counters.
Can OccuFi be used across multiple sites?
Yes. OccuFi is designed to support large, complex and multi-site environments, making it suitable for Multi-Academy Trusts and educational organisations operating across multiple locations.
Is personal data collected?
OccuFi uses anonymised data and is designed with privacy and public sector compliance in mind.
What insights can OccuFi provide?
OccuFi can provide estimated occupancy levels, occupancy percentages, dwell time information, movement patterns, historical trends and space utilisation insights.
