Optimizing real estate
Validate your real estate decisions and inspire change
Optimizing your real estate requires bringing all the stakeholders to agree to change. Irrefutable space usage data can be instrumental in validating your real estate strategy and inspiring workplace changes. Your organization turns to you deliver spaces that not only provide the best environment for its users, but is also cost-effective and sustainable.
How you can empower your real estate
- Understand space usage across your portfolio
- Use occupancy data to speed up organisational decisions
- Use data to support mergers, acquisitions and disposals
- Ensure smooth implementation of office moves, adds and changes
- Reduce space wastage and reduce your carbon footprint
- Benchmark your occupancy costs
Your offices are spread across a wide geography and understanding their usage accurately can be challenging. Walkthroughs and notepads don’t quite cut it. Sensor-based data can give you real-time, continuous and accurate picture of actual space use across your portfolio.
Understanding usage
Global portfolio
Real-time
Convincing business users of their actual space needs can be a challenging task. People are possessive about their space; in some cases being measured as a privilege. Anonymous and irrefutable data can help take the emotion out of decision making. Analytics and insights can help you accelerate decision making.
Accelerate decisions
Organizational change
Data analytics
Every large business goes through mergers, acquisitions and disposals. Office space is a key resource that could be a catalyst for a successful change. Analytics from space usage can provide insights to assist with the change. Digital signage helps create a common culture of space usage when two organizations come together.
Mergers and acquisitions
Data analytics
Digital signage
Office moves can be a stressful period for many of us. Assisting staff with data at their fingertips can assure them what to expect during the change and empower them to participate in the new setting. Apps, signage, space planning tools can now work in conjunction to help achieve this outcome.
Moves and changes
Change behavior
Space planning
Every space carries a maintenance overhead. Whether Heating, ventilation and air conditioning, maintenance or cleaning. Elevator miles, waste management or materials distribution. Costs are both evident and hidden. Remove these costs for spaces that are not in use. Measuring usage can deliver benefits beyond what meets the eye.
Carbon footprint
Space reduction
Energy reduction
Identify potential real estate savings for your organization, forecasting based on actual occupancy. Benchmark using predictive analytics to highlight exceptions and clusters and plan future real estate without affecting productivity potential. Leverage insights we can reveal from a large global deployment of our technology.
Space Indices
Efficiency Improvement
Data driven

Technology
Discover technologies designed to seamlessly work together to provide reliable real estate analytics to inform decision making, benchmark costs, manage change and plan future real estate.
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Optimizing real estate
Use sensors to capture data anonymously across your real estate portfolio
Sensors capture anonymous data at the time of the event and provide the context for improve real estate performance.
Key benefits
- Anonymously capture presence in real-time at individual spaces.
- Context-based sensing for different settings: desks, collaboration spaces, meeting rooms, entrances and exits.
- Deploy as a retrofit on existing floors or with a new build.
- Measure actual usage continuously over an extended period to drive decisions.
- Non refutable data can help remove emotion associated with optimization discussions.
- Reliable and repeatable data provides a common language for all functions.
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Optimizing real estate
Use analytics to measure, manage and optimize hybrid spaces
Use our analytics platform to optimize your real estate footprint. Data from various sources including the Employee App, sensors and calendars are pulled together in one location for easy decision making.

Key benefits
- Ensure the workplace is a destination for your people in delivering the organizational culture and strategic objectives of the organization.
- Understand rates of change across your portfolio and when you are at new operating levels.
- Accurately understand opportunities across the portfolio to adapt and respond to organizational strategy and demand.
- Forecast future growth by analyzing space utilization changes in comparison to organizational growth and development.
Optimizing real estate
Our smart integrations are proven to automate building operations
Freespace has integrated with several third party systems to enable occupancy and environmental data to drive automation.
Optimizing real estate
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The Space API is an open system for securely exchanging information with the Freespace platform.
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Analytics
Professional services
Our Professional Services offering allows you to maximize the benefits of the data you are collecting using the Freespace platform. We provide a variety of services that allows you to focus on what you do best – deliver value for your business – while we do the heavy lifting of data manipulation or writing custom code to extract reports.
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Whether you are researching workplace technologies or at the stage where you want a formal response, we are here to help. We can digitize your workspaces, increase employee collaboration, deliver meaningful insights and more. Let’s get started.
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