This report from SmartCitiesWorld (February 2021) examines the current state of the smart office movement and identify not only the most in-demand applications and technologies, but what approaches organizations are taking and what the main barriers are to creating more intelligent workspaces. A smart office benefits from being built on a common connected infrastructure capable of accommodating different applications and devices and gathering data from these applications and devices. Responses show that most companies are not taking this integrated approach. Moreover, in practice, a connected lighting infrastructure often serves as an ideal entry point for businesses who want to distribute IoT capabilities throughout their workspaces. However, as the survey revealed, many are not maximizing the use of connected lighting as a cost-effective starting point for smarter indoor spaces.
Key words: Access Controls, Cloud & Data Analytics, Data Networking, Distance Learning/Training, Employee Productivity, Energy Management, HVAC, Intelligent Building