Smart Innovators: Building Occupant Mobile Apps
Ibrahim Yate
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Executive Summary
This report provides corporate real estate, facilities management and workplace executives, as well as asset managers and landlords, with an assessment of the emerging category of mobile apps designed to improve occupant and tenant experience of buildings. Over the past two years, there has been a flurry of new mobile apps launched by start-ups, workplace management specialists, IWMS vendors and building management software vendors that look to provide building users with better access to workplace services and local amenities. Based on our analysis of 28 building occupant mobile apps, this report reviews trends in product design, core usage scenarios and how building occupant apps are likely to develop in tandem with the IoT technology trend and proliferation of smart buildings. Corporate executives, asset managers and landlords can use this report to better understand how building occupant apps have the potential to deliver value in the built environment.Mobile Apps Link Occupants To An Increasingly Connected Ecosystem Of Real Estate Technology
The Proliferation Of Smart Phone Use And The IoT Underpins Demand To Centralize Real Estate Data And Activities On A Single Device
Introducing The Mobile Apps For Building Occupants Market
Vendors Develop Mobile App Functionalities Based On Four Visions
Mobile Apps Help Building Occupants Across Ten Key Usage Scenarios
Early Evidence Points To Demonstrable Improvements In Occupants’ Indoor Experience
Balance Of Drivers And Barriers Mean Market Growth Will Gradually Gather Pace
Vendors Will Need To Sharpen Their Strategies To Thrive In A Growing Occupant-Apps Market
Figure 2. Four Visions For Building Occupant Mobile Apps
Figure 3. Typical Usage Scenario Descriptions
Figure 4. Product Visions And Usage Scenario Matrix
Figure 5. Usage Scenario Coverage By Vendor
Figure 6. Building Occupant Mobile Apps Stakeholders
Figure 7. Deployment Challenges For Building Occupant Mobile Apps
About the Author
Ibrahim Yate
Senior Analyst
Ibrahim is a Senior Analyst in the Verdantix Smart Buildings practice, which he joined in 2016. His current agenda covers innovation in software and hardware solutions for spa...
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