“Our primary use case for engaging with Spica and their footfall occupancy solution was to help us meet capacity limits of the building and floors as set by our Fire Risk Assessment. The solution that Spica offers allows us to view real time occupancy levels across the building. Alert notifications can be configured in the platform so we are notified by sms or email when certain capacity thresholds are beached. Through having the system we are able to view real time and historical occupancy data for analysis in both the platform and offline as well. This is enabling us to make workspace decisions based on hard evidence and trends rather than assumptions and manual people counting. A spin off use case has been to launch a live data feed to the staff on floor level screens. Employees are now able to see which floors are busiest and re locate to quieter areas. From analysis of the data we hope to also advise employees to work from home during peak times. This is helping to support our smarter working initiative and flexible working approach. As we gather greater knowledge of how the building is used, we envisage this could also allow for potential shut down of areas and energy saving initiatives. Spica have been a good collaborative partner for the DWP overcoming some initial installation complications and being open to configuring part of the solution specific to us.”