CEO of InnerSpace, James Wu, writes about his office space analytics predictions as we move into 2022. Read more to see James touch upon long-term workplace transformation, people's behaviors in spaces and tech filling productivity gaps.

InnerSpace, a space utilization and analytics platform that provides location intelligence for enterprise companies, has successfully completed the System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type I audit.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We revisit this critical subject by focusing specifically on the use of WiFi. WiFi is also an important instrument in the data privacy toolbox. That’s because this technology remains the best-case solution when it comes to balancing both privacy and efficiency.

Our CEO James Wu shared the stage with an expert panel at the latest Realcomm webinar focused on workplace analytics for the future of work and the hybrid office. It was a timely discussion on how building owners and operators can go beyond occupancy data to facilitate a truly flexible workplace focused on density, efficiency and experience. In case you missed it, here are the highlights.

Outdoors, when walking, driving or cycling, apps have replaced paper maps when it comes to figuring out where we are in relation to where we are going. GPS technology is omnipresent – except when it comes to the indoors. In offices, malls, museums and airports, it doesn’t work.  In the past 10 years, indoor location technologies have emerged to tackle this problem.

There’s no question that real estate in cities around the world is, well, expensive. Of all the line items impacting a business, real estate is one of the most pressing – and one over which companies often have the least amount of control.  

InnerSpace predicts 2021 tech trends for how the office will transform this year including the critical role of workplace experience managers and fully interconnected office buildings

Keep your employees safe and healthy while maintaining business continuity and public health compliance. Choose the only always-on, WiFi based solution that puts your employees’ privacy first.

InnerSpace, the world’s most accurate WiFi-based indoor location intelligence platform, announces WiFi based contact tracing solutions InnerSpace inTRACK.

COVID-19 has thrust health-care workers to the front lines, caused personal tragedy, and redefined what jobs are “essential.” Economically it has imperiled industries, triggered layoffs, and all-but-stopped life within office complexes, malls, stadiums, and urban hubs. 

InnerSpace, the world’s most accurate WiFi-based indoor location intelligence platform, announces it will provide its platform free-of-charge to retailers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We take a look at the data to see how businesses responded to the wave of news that initiated from China in December 2019 and quickly swept the world.

InnerSpace, the world’s most accurate WiFi-based indoor location intelligence platform, today announced its product capabilities to support all levels of government to analyze the patterns and movement in public spaces using existing WiFi networks.

InnerSpace promotes Cerys Goodall to the role of President & COO. Goodall will support investment strategies for the company while overseeing sales and marketing, client delivery, professional services and data science programs.

Much has changed in the world since we last wrote about innovation and privacy. Thanks to COVID-19, businesses are in survival mode, governments are confronting unprecedented scenarios – and decisions that once took months to negotiate are now being executed in just days.

InnerSpace has been awarded a patent by the US Patent Office for its approach to generating maps for indoor navigation. The patent (#10458798B2) “Method for Sensing Interior Spaces to Auto-Generate a Navigational Map” protects the company’s unique approach leveraging LiDAR to create maps of indoor spaces.

Gartner recently published two reports on the Indoor Location market. Its coveted Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, and the Market Guide for Indoor Location Application Platform both include InnerSpace. Find out more.

InnerSpace has been awarded a patent by the US Patent Office for its approach to generating maps for indoor navigation. The patent (#10458798B2) “Method for Sensing Interior Spaces to Auto-Generate a Navigational Map” protects the company’s unique approach leveraging LiDAR to create maps of indoor spaces.

Toronto, Canada - December 10, 2019 - InnerSpace, an IoT-based indoor location intelligence platform for Smart Buildings, today announced it was selected to support the Center for Innovative Technology’s (CIT) active shooter training exercise held on November 18, 2019 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The exercises were part of the Smart City Initiative funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In the age of innovation, with our increasingly sophisticated technological advances, the ‘P’ word – privacy – rightfully starts to enter the discourse. Indoor location itself has prompted a lot of discussion which we break down into one key topic - the exchange privacy vs value exchange.

At the start of spring this year, InnerSpace announced the close of a $3.2 million seed round led by BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Fund.  Recently, InnerSpace Chief Marketing Officer Cerys Goodall sat down with Anthony Lacavera of GlobalLive in partnership with BDC to discuss how the platform enhances productivity and improves employee well-being. 

At InnerSpace, we built our platform on the premise of effecting positive change through the use of location data. We take strategic aim at securely capturing data with privacy at its core.

From Collision to Queens University and the upcoming DC5G, our CEO James Wu has enlightened audiences across North America about how we’re dramatically changing the way indoor space is used – and the powerful benefits it brings to companies. We caught up with James between travel to get his thoughts on our company’s progress and why indoor location is the way of the future.

Anyone who’s worked in an office can attest to the fact that meetings can sometimes be a waste of time. But as it turns out, trying to find space to even hold a meeting can be wasteful on a far greater level. Client calls that go long and delay the next meeting; three people taking up a 15-seat boardroom; unannounced issues that require private space to chat – the reasons are varied and often frustrating.

This past week has been a blur! The global tech community had their eyes on Toronto as Collision marked its first year in our gorgeous city. Hosted at the Enercare Centre, the conference hosted the likes of Prime minister Justin Trudeau, Seth Rogan talking about Houseplant, Joseph Gordan-Levitt from HITRECORD, and more. Designed to be the perfect intersection between tech, investors, government, and media, Collision didn’t disappoint!

InnerSpace closed its seed funding with a total of $3.2 million USD raised. The round was led by BDC Capital's Women in Tech fund, with support from MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, 500 Startups, Industry Ventures, and Zach Coelius’s AngelList.

Wait Times is our latest product that works with our indoor location platform. Eliminate unproductive time, improve building operations, increase sales all by reducing how long people wait in lines. Wait Times is ideal for concession stands at sports venues, campus dining experiences, and more.

Indoor location is the backbone to smart building initiatives. A single solution can drive a multitude of operating solutions and end-user experiences. Invest once and innovation is limitless.

Indoor location’s applications go far beyond shopping. It can dramatically improve labor deployment, real estate utilization, tenant experiences, facilities management, food services, and more. Check out the InnerSpace platform with proprietary sensors, and out-of-the-box business solutions.

Even though most people think about GPS when they think about location-based technology, it has evolved beyond GPS and is now heading indoors. After all, people spend a lot of time in places like shopping malls, grocery stores, office buildings, museums, hospitals, airports and more.

Find out how indoor location can be used to improve your business simply by incorporating intelligence into your decision-making, products and services.

We’ve been part of 500 Startups, IBM Innovation Space, and Creative Destruction Labs. Here are the top 5 things every startup should know to get the most out of their journey.

Apple stepped up its position for indoor way finding. But there's a fundamental problem with the company's approach. Scalability. Find out how new technologies have overcome the pitfalls of disparate technologies that plagued indoor location in the past.

While recent developments in indoor data are impressive, the best is yet to come. At InnerSpace, we believe 2018 is going to be a big year for indoor mapping and location data. In this post, we’ll look at some of the major trends that will shape the way indoor data will be used in the year ahead.

If you’re involved in a startup, you know how quickly a business can move. Finding digital solutions that foster growth—by making your company leaner, improving your product or service, or developing your brand—can be a major key to success.

The demand for warehouse space has exploded in recent years as eCommerce continues to grow. But it's not just about the space. Customer expectations have evolved, which means warehouses need to operate more efficiently and extend services that reflect the customer journey.

When you think about the problem InnerSpace solves - being able to understand how people and things behave within a built space - our feline friends felt like a great way to celebrate a part of our internal culture, but also to communicate with prospective customers how they can use the InnerSpace platform.

This is "Johnny." He's the InnerSpace Sensor that digitizes indoor spaces - instantly and in real-time. Using WiFi, Bluetooth, LiDAR and a variety of other technologies, when combined with our proprietary algorithms, Johnny is a powerful solution.

Deloitte predicts that as of 2022 at least a quarter of all human and machine uses of precision digital navigation will include an indoor leg or be for an entirely indoor journey. This compares to less than five percent of all uses in 2017.

James recently sat down with BNN’s Catherine Murray to showcase how we are levelling the playing field for brick and mortar retailers who are competing against virtual stores.

We’re thrilled to let you know that InnerSpace has been selected by 500 Startups to join its next cohort.

InnerSpace showcased the future of commercial real estate technology with other industry leaders during the CRETech New York symposium. The event host CRETech is a information firm committed to being the best source of emerging and innovative commercial real estate technology.

We are thrilled to be part of the Plug and Play IoT and Health accelerator program in Silicon Valley and welcome you to join us on June 23 for our pitch and demo at Plug and Play's Internet of Things and Health & Wellness EXPO.

Behind the black tarps that cover its entrance, construction workers with drills, hammers and paintbrushes in-hand work furiously to put the finishing touches on Saks Fifth Avenue’s first Canadian location.

It has been widely reported that we should expect more than seven billion people and businesses, and at least 30 billion devices, to be connected to the Internet by 2020, so it should be of no surprise that this tech-driven economy is here to stay.

5 years later stepping indoors still feels like stepping in to the 20th century - we huddle around kiosk directories for directions and use physical signage for way finding. Why? We aren't moving fast enough to solve the root problem - the maps.

While there is a lot of spending on IOT technologies to help retailers build the stores of the future, the lack of a single, turn-key product prohibits any solution from scaling across a retail chain.

InnerSpace solves a problem we all face. We spend 90% of our time indoors, with no digital awareness of our location once we step inside. The smartphone is the world's most pervasive computing device, yet it has failed to radically improve our experiences in the indoor world.