DECEMBER 2020CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM 19by-zone building health scores, which can be derived by looking at the number of wireless devices in a given area, device density, and other factors. Building usage data can also be used to help proactively identify and mitigate high-traffic areas to assist with social distancing efforts.With the pandemic crisis, an organization's use of location technology has moved from a competitive advantage to a business imperative. Indoor Intelligence can help organizations with their efforts to follow best practices and guidelines to increase workplace health and safety in light of infectious disease threats like COVID-19.Besides Workplace Readiness solutions, what are some of the other ways organizations benefit from your solutions?Our solution is designed with the capability not only to facilitate the return to work but also to help businesses increase sales, decrease costs, and enhance safety and security. Our robust offering can benefit many industry sectors. Businesses with complex buildings, such as hotels, airports, shopping malls, hospitals, and corporate campuses can provide intelligent maps for indoor navigation to speed visitors on their way. Retailers can use advanced analytics to gain insights from visitor counts, dwell times, and paths taken. Industrial and other clients can take advantage of the real-time location to help find an injured worker, avoid collisions, and monitor parts on a production line. High-security facilities, like government sites, can monitor for unauthorized wireless devices and enforce no-phone zones. In short, organizations in almost every industry can benefit by tracking the location and movements of their assets, equipment, and IoT devices to maximize operational efficiency.The data sources are everywhere -- from smartphones to smart air conditioning units. Many data-transmitting IoT devices have a spatial component, so we're able to give them context by plotting the devices and their data on a dynamic, multilayered map. This delivers an intuitive graphic presentation of the facility's information for powerful visualizations and potentially faster decision making and action. For example, using our platform in conjunction with a facility management app, one could identify building zones that have sensors reporting poor air quality, pinpoint and navigate to the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) units that have sensors reporting a need for filter cleaning or replacement, and then dispatch maintenance teams with turn-by-turn directions to the equipment needing service. Advanced analytics can be added to see the key insights and trends over time. And, assuming ample historical data is available, it's even possible to perform AI-powered predictive forecasting to help with planning for future periods.Could you please elaborate on your mission--"to do good with indoor data?" I realized the critical value that our indoor location technology provides from one of our clients, a large US military agency. The customer talked about how our devices detect and locate connected devices that come into their facility and how that allows them to ensure that those devices are registered or approved. He then explained to me that if any of the devices in the facility were hacked, classified information that impacts our actively deployed soldiers could be compromised.This is just one of many examples of how Inpixon's technology can truly make a difference. Indoor data is too valuable to be ignored, and while COVID-19 has created more awareness around the benefits of leveraging this information, this goes well beyond one public health use case. Harnessing the power of Indoor Intelligence can change the way we experience the world inside our built environment. I often think about how we can make smartphones, or any other connected device for that matter, truly smart. You shouldn't have to ask your devices for information; it should be served to you as you move from one location to the next, providing meaningful, helpful content based on the context of your location. It should anticipate your needs and provide safety and security as you move through the world. This removal of friction can happen at scale with a combination of our location data, contextual information, and applied AI analytics. If we think about the impact GPS had in making people's lives easier, we're overdue to bring that experience to indoor spaces. In today's world, any opportunity to enable businesses and individuals to be more productive, healthy, and secure is one that is worth pursuing, and we're proud to provide the solutions that help to achieve that goal.
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