INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
WE HAVE TO
CONSIDER HOW
THE WORKPLACE
CAN BECOME
BETTER EQUIPPED
TO MEET OUR DAILY
EXPECTATIONS.
workplaces, the people who work here will also
be able to collaborate more – spending less
time trying to find cables and connections,
and more time getting the job done.
The tech platform to
improve productivity
With this design in place, it’s then time to
address the technology that can get the
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best from your workforce. Is it a VR booth
or a robot assistant? No. The smart office
is about getting the basics right. Access to
a secure, reliable and fast Wi-Fi connection
is essential for most job roles and
industries now, especially for those who
are office-based or working remotely. But if
the future workplace is not just connected,
but smart, it can become much more
personalised for the workers who use it.
Having user credentials that are recognised
across any location or device, for example,
removes the unnecessary task of repeated
logins, which over the course of days, weeks
and years is an enormous time saver.
Better connection,
improved communication
From here, we can start to push the
boundaries using IoT. Controlling the
heating of a room to your liking using
your smartphone, or turning on the coffee
machine remotely, are just two examples
of a quicker, more personal working
environment using technology. This is
not only possible, but pretty affordable.
And if you want to control a broader
range of equipment, we are also seeing
plug in multi-sensors entering the market,
which use machine learning to identify
the signals being sent by any number of
electronic devices.
Very quickly, you could be setting up an
office with hundreds of devices interlinked,
allowing you to better understand how
those devices are being used and create new
offerings for your employees.
It might sound futuristic, but steps like this
are relatively simple and I think, near-term.
As a supplier of business connectivity, our
energies are focused on managing, and
securing, the explosion of traffic that will
come from the digital workplace.
For you, the business owner, and the
employee, your task is to remove barriers to
mobile-friendly working and gradually create
the kind of smart, digital environment that
people really want to work in. n
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