How many square metres are you paying for empty desks?
With hybrid working, real occupancy often differs sharply from planned capacity. Measuring space usage anonymously helps decide whether to redesign, consolidate or release floor space.
Smart Vision for workplaces
Workspaces sized on actual occupancy
VIDEO.MA measures occupancy of floors, meeting rooms, shared spaces and parking using existing or dedicated cameras. Data is aggregated and anonymous: the goal is to optimise space, not to track people.
What it is costing you today
Free auditAre your meeting rooms actually used when they are booked?
A room that is booked but empty blocks other teams without anyone knowing. Comparing bookings with observed occupancy helps size your meeting room estate properly.
Are you heating and cleaning floors nobody uses?
Facility services are often set to the building’s capacity rather than its actual use. Knowing occupancy by floor and by day helps adjust cleaning, air conditioning and opening hours.
Offices & Corporate Buildings
Industry challenges
Underused floor space
With hybrid work, part of the desks and rooms stays empty while real-estate costs remain fixed.
Booked but empty rooms
Booking tools do not reflect real use: cancelled meetings, oversized rooms, or rooms used without a booking.
Saturated or poorly allocated parking
Facility managers lack visibility of parking occupancy by time slot, which complicates space allocation.
Sensitive areas with little oversight
Plant rooms, server rooms and archives require extra vigilance, especially outside office hours.
VIDEO.MA
What VIDEO.MA delivers
Floor occupancy
Per projectAggregated count of people present per floor and zone, to base space decisions on data.
Meeting-room occupancy
Per projectDetection of actual room use and headcount, compared with each room’s capacity.
Shared-space footfall
Per projectOccupancy of the cafeteria, break areas and collaboration zones by time slot.
Entrance counting
Per projectAnonymous counting at main entrances to track building attendance by day and time slot.
Parking occupancy
Per projectCounting of incoming and outgoing vehicles and estimated available spaces per level or zone.
Restricted-zone alerts
Per projectFlagging of presence in sensitive rooms during configurable time windows, alongside access control.
Booking reconciliation
Feasibility studyComparison of room bookings with measured occupancy, depending on the booking tool’s interfaces.
Live occupancy display
Coming soonShowing space availability to employees in real time, planned for the future SaaS platform.
Example metrics
Occupancy rate per floor
Video dataAverage and peak occupancy of each floor by day of the week.
Effective room utilisation
Video dataShare of available time during which each room is actually occupied.
People per meeting
Video dataAverage headcount relative to room capacity.
Parking occupancy
Video dataOccupied spaces per time slot and time of saturation.
No-show bookings
Video + business dataSlots booked in the booking tool with no measured occupancy.
Dashboard preview
Dashboard · Headquarters — Space occupancyDemo data
People in building
326
Average floor occupancy
54%
Rooms in use
9 / 16
Free parking spaces
38
Activity per hour
Events
- Room occupancy > 85% — Floor 3
- Parking level -1 full
- After-hours presence — Server room, 21:05
- Booked room unused — Atlas room
Deployment approach
- 1
Audit and feasibility study
Survey of floors, rooms and entrances, inventory of available cameras, and definition of the workplace questions the data must answer.
- 2
Zone and indicator configuration
Setup of floor zones, rooms, counting lines and parking spaces to monitor.
- 3
Single-floor pilot
Go-live on one floor and a few rooms, validation of accuracy and relevance of the indicators.
- 4
Rollout and follow-up
Extension to the whole building, periodic occupancy reporting and equipment maintenance.
Prerequisites, limitations and privacy
- No individual employee monitoring: indicators relate to zones and volumes, never to named people.
- No facial recognition or biometric identification.
- As data controller, the company must complete Law 09-08 formalities with the CNDP and inform staff representatives and employees; VIDEO.MA can provide support.
- Camera placement in meeting rooms requires careful study; non-video sensors may be preferable for some spaces.
Frequently asked questions
Can you tell who is using a desk?
No, and that is not the purpose. The solution measures how many people occupy a zone, not who they are. The data is used to size space and services.
Do we need cameras in meeting rooms?
Not necessarily. The feasibility study determines whether existing cameras cover the relevant spaces. For enclosed rooms, less intrusive alternatives may be recommended.
Can the data feed our room-booking tool?
Integration is possible if the tool offers a usable interface. It is assessed in a specific study before any commitment.
How long before we get usable results?
A single-floor pilot typically provides initial trends within a few weeks. Timing depends on the condition of existing equipment and the agreed scope.
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