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AI analytics allows you to strengthen several aspects of the business at once — to increase security (especially in a pandemic), improve property management (regulate the number of employees at locations, quickly respond to troubleshooting, cleaning, etc.), improve customer experience and increase profits (optimization of routes, location shops, etc.). Foot traffic AI analytics is significant for public place owners, operators and managers. It helps to collect data about visitor routes around the facility or public place, create heatmaps, control overcrowding, improve customer experience and m ..read more

Analytics is important in every kind of business in both external and internal activities. AI analytics helps to increase employee productivity and optimize the number of employees in general. In this article, we’ll discuss how AI analytics can help to increase employee performance, optimize the number of service personnel, improve indoor logistics and build layouts and many more. Indoor employee traffic analytics Indoor traffic analytics allows determining in real-time the location (position) of employees, workers and equipment on the territory of an industrial enterprise, office space, healt ..read more

Over the past couple of years and since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, facility management principles have changed. In accordance with the precautionary measures during Covid-19 (additional disinfection, etc.), the costs only increase, but the budgets don’t, so it is important to look for how to optimize these costs. The time has come for facility management in the era of digitalization. It makes it much easier to manage facilities. Especially if we are talking about large facilities such as shopping malls, logistics centres or hypermarkets. Metaverse, digital twins, indoor navigation ..read more

Every 24 seconds, a fire department in the USA responds to the fire somewhere in the country, while once a minute, a fire occurs in a structure or building. The Federal Emergency Management Agency calculated that in 2019 there were 110 900 fires in nonresidential buildings, that caused 100 deaths, 1125 injuries and $2.8 billion in dollar loss. There’s a 10% increase in fires in nonresidential buildings and a 50% increase in deaths in the last 9 years (2010 – 2019).   According to the statistics, less than half of building occupants feel confident about their building’s evacuation pla ..read more

There are a lot of methods to stimulate revenue growth from traditional marketing processes to leveraging innovative technologies. Earlier I published an article about top innovations that boost revenue growth for shopping malls.  This time I’d like to share the recent results of piloting our new feature — metaverse location-based advertising and show you how to almost double the average check per visitor. Overview Metaverse location-based advertising combines two of the most effective trends — metaverse and location-based advertising. Over the last couple of years, such brands as MT ..read more

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work and the workplace itself. It’s more important than ever to be able to work, interact with colleagues, and stay productive wherever you are. The workspace is also being transformed because of the higher flexibility in work process organization, as well as fast technology development.  To keep productivity high and ensure safety in an office, companies search for new solutions and leverage new technologies such as metaverse, XR, indoor navigation, and many more. In this article we’ll go through indoor AR indoor navigation for the workspace a ..read more

Printed navigation signs are things of the past. Given the ever-changing business situation and increasing costs of printing and placement, digitalization looks like the core solution to this problem.  Digital transformation is the hottest trend of the past years. The pandemic has given rise to the development of companies and businesses willing to invest in digitalization and digital transformation. And it’s not only about the Covid-19 (while it played a vital role in business transformation) or process automation.  Modern technologies are about cost-efficiency, greater customer or ..read more

Digitalization of indoor navigation helps to reduce operational costs and costs on wayfinding (printed signs, kiosks, special signs etc.). It’s relevant for many industries, including facility management, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, warehouse management, retail and many more. The indoor positioning and indoor navigation (IPIN) uses sensor technologies, magnetic positioning and low energy Bluetooth (BLE) to provide orientation services in different locations.  It can be named a critical technology in several industries. Imagine that you are in a hospital, where one of the mo ..read more

Shopping malls are in a difficult situation — sales are falling, traffic is decreasing, visitors are choosing a more cautious consumption model due to a drop in income because of Covid-19 and new retail rules. In addition to changes related to market conditions, tough competition for customers and unstable economic situations, consumer shopping patterns are rapidly changing.  The traditional approach is not enough to stimulate purchases and can’t improve customer experience. Modern technologies help to apply a customer-centric approach and ensure greater service to increase clients’ loya ..read more