Smart Estate Insights for Schools, Public Sector and Commercial Buildings
Estate IQ is a smart estate management platform that combines IoT sensor data, occupancy analytics, and environmental monitoring to give organisations a complete view of how buildings perform. Track space utilisation, air quality, energy and water usage, and turn insight into action across single sites or multi-building estates.
Using wireless IoT sensors and secure connectivity technology from EnOcean, EstateIQ collects real-time environmental and occupancy data across your estate and turns it into actionable insights.
This enables estates, facilities and sustainability teams to:
EstateIQ works across single buildings, campuses or multi-site estates.
Why Organisations Use EstateIQ
Improve Space Utilisation
Understand how classrooms, offices and meeting spaces are actually used.
EstateIQ provides real-time and historical data on:
This helps organisations optimise space planning, timetabling and estate strategy.
EstateIQ provides real-time and historical data on room occupancy, desk usage, footfall through people counters, building utilisation trends This helps organisations optimise space planning, timetabling and estate strategy.
Indoor air quality has become a major priority for schools, workplaces and care environments. EstateIQ sensors monitor: CO₂ levels, temperature, humidity, particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5, PM10), TVOCs. This enables facilities teams to quickly identify ventilation issues and maintain healthier indoor environments.
Energy consumption often does not match how buildings are actually used. EstateIQ allows organisations to combine occupancy and energy data to identify: heated empty rooms, inefficient circuits, HVAC inefficiencies, under-used spaces consuming power. This supports energy optimisation and sustainability initiatives.
Water sensors can detect leaks, escape of water and abnormal consumption patterns. This helps estates teams reduce: flood damage, maintenance costs, legionella risk, water waste
EstateIQ is designed to be simple to deploy without complex building infrastructure changes.
Sensors can monitor a wide range of environmental and usage data across your estate, including:
• Room occupancy sensors
• Desk occupancy sensors
• People counters
• CO₂ sensors
• Temperature and humidity sensors
• Noise monitoring sensors
• Light (lux) sensors
• Energy monitoring (CT clamps)
• Water flow monitoring
• Leak detection sensors
• Door and window sensors
Many devices use energy-harvesting technology, removing the need for frequent battery replacements.
Sensor data is transmitted through secure gateways which can include:
• USB access point dongles compatible with Aruba or Cisco infrastructure
• Dedicated gateway devices
• Optional 4G / 5G connectivity for remote sites
EstateIQ operates on sub-GHz wireless frequencies, keeping IoT traffic separate from Wi-Fi networks.
Sensor data is encrypted and securely transmitted to the EstateIQ cloud platform where it is enriched and aggregated.
Organisations can then view insights via:
• Real-time dashboards
• Data exports
• API integrations
The EstateIQ platform provides a central view of estate performance.
Users can:
EstateIQ is used across a range of sectors where building insight and operational efficiency are critical.
Schools, colleges and universities use EstateIQ to monitor classroom air quality, understand room utilisation, support smart campus initiatives, reduce energy waste across estates.
Local authorities and government organisations use EstateIQ to improve estate visibility across multiple buildings and departments.
Offices, retail and manufacturing facilities use EstateIQ to understand how space is used and optimise operational efficiency.
Care homes and healthcare environments use environmental monitoring to support safer, healthier spaces.
Organisations can adopt EstateIQ in two ways.
CapEx Model
Subscription Model
This flexible approach allows organisations to align procurement with their budgets.
EstateIQ can also complement the Wi-Fi analytics platform OccuFi.
OccuFi provides network-based occupancy insights, while EstateIQ provides sensor-level environmental and utilisation data. Together they provide a more complete picture of building usage.
The EstateIQ platform continues to evolve, with additional functionality planned including:
• Map-based data overlays for estates
• Classroom display dashboards
• Advanced occupancy analytics
Switchshop can support organisations through the full deployment lifecycle:
• Estate surveys
• Sensor deployment
• Platform configuration
• Integration with existing systems
• Ongoing support
This ensures organisations can quickly begin benefiting from real-time estate insights.
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