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How AI changes occupant experience

David Karpook explains in this blog post that we need to be very mindful of when, where, and how to give up or retain control regarding smart equipment in the workplace.

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Campus Management Maturity Framework: Where are you in the journey to a smart campus?

Planon has developed a maturity framework for integrated campus management solutions that consists of these five levels: Initial, Managed, Defined, Measured, and Optimised. Campus managers can use this framework to help determine how their university compares with others.

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Operating the smart campus

With an integrated campus management system, universities can take a proactive approach to integrating new technologies on campus.

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In search of an ‘intelligent’ campus

This blog explores the evolution of the smart campus into an intelligent campus and the potential benefits this provides for campus managers.

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Smart buildings: It’s still about the people inside

The smartest buildings of the future will be those designed with people in mind. This blog is about the perception of ‘occupant comfort’ as being the most important benefit of implementing smart building technologies.

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Expanding an IWMS with smart building technology

This blog explains how Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) developed in recent years, the changing benefits of an IWMS over time and what the evolution of an IWMS means for smart building technology today?

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CAFM and IWMS - the start of the journey towards smart building technology

This blog is about the early days of CAFM and IWMS. The first generation of integrated solutions was considered a big step forward, but integration with buildings and smart building technology to the extent we see today was way beyond imagination.

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The organisational benefits of combining IFRS 16 compliancy with an IWMS

Combining Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) software and IFRS 16 compliancy within one solution offers organisational benefits. Read about these in this blog.

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Discover brand new insights about your leasing data with analytics

This blog discusses how you as a financial professional can start predicting and anticipating the future with big data.

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Who should own the Building Internet of Things?

As more IoT-related responsibilities arise and mature, so does the need for a new role that blends IT and Facility Management to manage them.

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Analysing the battle of the thermostat

Energy use is far from efficient and installations suffer when occupants' continuously change the temperature. In this week's blog, Planon shares its experience with analyzing office temperatures and lessons learned!

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The least popular meeting room is used the most!

Data is meaningless if you don’t know the context of your data. Planon’s IWMS already provides a lot of context, but it’s the facility manager that can interpret that and draw the right conclusions.

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To measure is to know … nothing!

In this blog I am going to talk about the renowned proverb ‘to measure is to know’. Within Facility and Real Estate Management, we seem to consider this of high importance. Read this blog to know why!

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Using Analytics to take your CRE & FM strategy to the next level

This blog explains the importance of using Big Data & Analytics in supporting CRE and FM strategies today and highlights common challenges in making the most out of this.

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Reporting upstream: Using analytics to meet your CRE & FM objectives

Today’s business environment lives on data. Yet, many facility managers and real estate managers struggle to derive the right data to prove their value to the C- level. This blog could help face that problem by describing how to obtain that right data.