Carpet manufacturers are embedding sensors to track footsteps, the lighting sector is embedding sensors, furniture manufacturers are doing the same. The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon no longer be about adding sensors and connecting “things”, it will be about how we analyse data to create new workplace strategies. That is the view of Srihar Potineni, CTO of applications and data at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) for Commercial Smart Buildings. Potineni noted that while JLL is handling “billions of square feet” and “billions of dollars of transactions,” operating as it does in over 80 countries, a significant part of their work comes from concentrating on people on the individual level. When smart buildings have sensors in place to manage and analyse human traffic flow, understanding the motivations behind these navigations is key to improving the systems integration and their results. “In one experiment, we put about 400 sensors into a small suburban office. Every sensor, every five […]