Smarten Spaces: Creating Smart Structures Powered by IoT & AI

Dinesh Malkani, Founder & CEO

Technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are gradually making the possibilities of an automated environment a reality. Today, the market has multiple solutions that help make commercial and residential spaces smart and efficient. However, the lack of adequate synchronization among various smart peripherals offered by different solution providers doesn’t necessarily streamline the workflow, but rather increases the clutter within the IoT ecosystem. To efficiently employ these solutions and technologies, clients seek a unified solution that makes them control everything through a single platform to provide a complete experience. Singapore-based Smarten Spaces fulfils this need through a unified IoT platform, which makes them stand out. “A lot of smart solution providers develop products in silos rather than focusing on the overall solution. “It takes an entire operating space which understands each user over and above developing or upgrading individual devices and functionalities to build an IoT ecosystem of the future” explains Dinesh Malkani, Founder and CEO of Smarten Spaces.

The company takes a holistic approach to bring all smart peripherals into a conglomerate SaaS-based IoT platform. Their ideology focuses on building a smart community for corporate, social, and residential spaces, enabling the occupants to leverage the benefits of the AI and IoT for a convenient and efficient lifestyle. Smarten Spaces not only reduces the utilization of resources but also regulates the need for cost-intensive hardware while saving 15-20 percent of the conventionally allocated space. Today, organizations ensure that their employees get a digital work environment, especially when almost 75 percent of the workforce is likely to comprise of millennials in the next few years.

We facilitate a multitude of features for the enterprises, commercial and residential spaces to ensure them convenience and security within their community

Smarten Spaces facilitates enterprises to work towards such an environment through their IoT platform. “We facilitate a multitude of features for the enterprises and residential spaces to ensure them convenience and security within their community,” adds Malkani. The company also ensures to introduce updated versions of their platform at various intervals by adopting an agile methodology.

Smarten Spaces aims at enhancing the productivity of occupants by streamlining all workspace requirements such as lighting controls, thermal settings, access to utilities, and visitor bookings. The company optimizes the living environment to engage, enable, and empower the tenants. All these features are developed on top of minimal hardware equipment, bolstered by a strong AI-enabled IoT core that fuels the smart ecosystem. One of the company’s recent collaborations with RMZ Corp highlights their minimum hardware approach. By utilizing the traditional camera equipment available at the infrastructure, Smarten Spaces came up with a Smart Traffic Watch that provided residents with real-time images of traffic conditions around the workspace, and redirected them to faster routes for an efficient commute. Smarten Spaces addresses various such requirements with SpazeBud—their proprietary application. SpazeBud is available for the users working in a smart campus to download on both Android and IOS platforms. The application allows them to get information about transportation, food, security, and other needs. Smarten Spaces also facilitates the members in a community to connect through the company’s community feature Bud Club.

Smarten Spaces employs a consulting team that understands the needs and necessities of newer infrastructures, followed by a thorough analysis of the available space for probable smart augmentations of IoT peripherals focusing on pure RoI. Malkani provides a glimpse of the company’s roadmap by emphasizing that these benefits can be easily extended to a cumulated set of smart configurations for campuses and museums.

The smart infrastructures created by Smarten Spaces also benefit the occupants with air quality control inside the establishments, shielding them from the adversities of the environment. As an extension of the idea, the company has taken up the go-green initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of infrastructures by employing ‘efficient energy management’ techniques through their IoT platform.

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Smarten Spaces Launches its Innovative Digital Workplace Platform for Microsoft Teams

NEW YORK,: Smarten Spaces, announce the launch of a purpose-built package, Jumpree by Smarten Spaces for Microsoft Teams, a comprehensive digital workplace platform. As most companies move to working in hybrid, the solution focuses on providing the employee with tools to... o enhance their experience and increase productivity as they juggle between home and the office. It also helps with companies optimizing and better utilizing their spaces in a flexible world.

The timing of this much needed solution couldn't be better as employees adapt to the new way of working. However, it is critical for companies to provide the employees with the best experience in order to maintain productivity.

According to the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Workplace Experience Applications [1], "Improving the employee workplace experience is the No. 1 priority for 67% of corporate real estate leaders who are increasingly working with the digital workplace team to optimize the hybrid experience".

With Jumpree by Smarten Spaces for Microsoft Teams, employees can exercise a host of options - from selecting the days they work from office, synchronizing schedules with colleagues, and reserving spaces that best suit their requirements. Jumpree by Smarten Spaces enables employees to book meeting and collaboration spaces, desks, and other amenities or any spaces across the office, with ease, without the need for any additional app downloads. Companies can increase their productivity and companies can reduce up to 30% space costs. The solution offers seamless out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Outlook, and Teams making it easy for companies to deploy and use.

" Jumpree by Smarten Spaces for Microsoft Teams is a game-changer for employee workplace experience," said Dinesh Malkani, Founder & CEO of Smarten Spaces. " Jumpree by Smarten Spaces makes things easy for employees by extending a Microsoft product they already use into a fully integrated solution that is highly intuitive. It removes the complexity of hybrid work and empowers them to collaborate better with their teams while giving them the best choices of spaces they love to work in. As companies move to flexibility in work arrangements, they can optimize their spaces."

The solution is available in multiple packages with a 30-day trial period at Microsoft AppSource, Azure Marketplace, and through Microsoft Teams. It can be self-onboarded by the companies themselves or through the partner ecosystem.

"As the workforce normalizes hybrid models, having the right tools for managing workspaces is vital for productivity and collaboration. Smarten Spaces has developed a specialized solution for Microsoft Teams that will add value to the workplace experience," stated Ben Summers, Director, Product Marketing, Microsoft Teams & Platform at Microsoft Corp.

Smarten Spaces' solution is deployed in over 30 countries globally including with leading Fortune 500 companies. They have recently reached an annual employee transaction rate of 3 million + employee interactions with a 3.5 X growth and deployment to over a million users.

[1] Gartner, "Market Guide for Workplace Experience Applications", January 4, 2023.

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