Team

• 3: Our team tripled in size and celebrated its 3rd anniversary this past year! We send out a warm welcome to all who have joined us and we are excited for every new addition in the year to come. Read more about Locatee’s journey here.
• 75046 km: Some of our team members had the chance to take a ‘Work Wherever You Want Week’ this year. All of them together have travelled 75046 km to reach their dream destinations. Have a closer look at the experiences of Flurin in New York, Benedikt in Tokyo and Alex in Berlin.
• 2: We thoroughly enjoyed our 2 team building events this year. The winter event was packed with fun activities in the snow. Read more about it here. Our summer event took place in Berne where we even had a try at the traditional Swiss sport ‘Hornussen’.

Product

• 67 on 6: Our product has been rolled out in 67 cities on 6 continents.
• 7: We are continuously dedicated to improving our solution and making it better for our customers. This is why we have released 7 updates adding a variety of new features. Read about our updates here.
• 33: Striving for top-quality and exceptional product development entails the need to generate a myriad of new ideas. In order to do so we’ve held 33 brainstorming sessions, allowing our creativity to be set free.

Sales

• 72432 km:This year, our sales team travelled 72432 km in order to spread the word about Locatee and the use cases it covers to optimise your smart buildings.
• 11: Orgatec in Cologne, WORK 2.0 in London, and the Smart Workspace Design Summit in Amsterdam are only a selection of events we’ve attended this year. At a total of 11 events we could be seen giving out Toblerones to new potential customers, existing partners and all other great and interesting people. Read about WORK here or subscribe to our newsletter here in order to never again miss an event.
• 241’060: Our team has sent out 241’060 emails to spread the word about Locatee and explain in how many ways our solution may be beneficial to your company.

Marketing

• 52%: This year, we increased our number of followers on Linkedin by 52%. We are happy to update even more people on our events, products and company news. Follow us on LinkedIn and keep up to date with our newest posts.
• 30: Generating interesting content for our followers has become an integral part of our daily business. To deliver you further detail on our company and on the industry’s developments, we have spent a lot of time researching and writing 30 blog posts. Read all of them here.
• 9: Generating a newsletter is a great opportunity to inform all interested parties about our events, product updates, and company news. We have sent out 9 newsletter editions and more will follow! To never miss any company updates again, subscribe to our newsletter here.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We’d like to thank YOU, because we could not have achieved all of these goals without our clients’ and partners’ help and we are hoping to reach even more milestones in the future!

See you next year!

As an innovative pioneer, Swiss Post relies on the latest technology to improve its employees’ work experience. Providing a modern work environment is one of the central measures. Since early 2016, Swiss Post therefore uses Locatee’s big data platform. After having successfully implemented and used Locatee Analytics for space optimisation during the last 2.5 years, it was time for the next step: The rollout of Locatee’s smartphone application.

This new tool helps the employees to easily search for and find colleagues and free desks. Like this, employees no longer waste time with looking for peers and the preferred workspaces. The app not only helps to increase efficiency, it also helps to improve the overall work experience as it provides the appropriate information and zoning plans to find their way around the building easily.

The app relies on data from Locatee Analytics which has so far been used to measure space utilisation in Swiss Post’s office buildings. Despite its accuracy, Locatee ensures data protection for the app users. The employees have the choice to opt-in if they want to be found, respectively opt-out if they do not want to be found by their colleagues. However, even when opted-in, individual data is only used for the live view and is not stored for historical analysis (read more about privacy).

“The app is the next step for an optimal usage of the building utilisation data, gathered with Locatee Analytics and enables improved collaboration among users.”

– Carine Bommeli, Innovation and Projects, Post Real Estate

To ensure a smooth launch, Swiss Post has implemented several internal communication measures: Besides distributing information flyers, conducting a raffle and dispatching newsletters, a guide is used to describe how the app can be downloaded from Swiss Post’s own app store. Following the successful rollout, the expansion to other office buildings is being examined now.

Get in touch if you would like to get more information about Locatee Analytics and the advantages for your employees.

After he sold BuddyBroker and their product Eqipia (a smart employee referral system) to the German business network XING in mid-2016, he remained at XING E-Recruiting until the end of 2017 in a senior management role. “My time at XING was truly valuable and I gained extensive hands-on experience in embedding and scaling up a product within an enterprise. Nevertheless, after the successful product migration, I felt a strong urge to join a small team and scale up a business again.” At XING, Flurin was responsible for transforming Eqipia into the XING Referral Manager and making the product part of the 360° E-Recruiting product suite.

As Head of Product, Flurin will drive Locatee’s product development forward on a strategical and conceptual level. He will also incorporate his expertise in user experience design and bridge the gap between customers and product development. “With Locatee, I’m joining one of the most promising B2B startups in Switzerland that has just started to scale internationally. It is the perfect challenge to take on after BuddyBroker!” says Flurin.

Locatee enables organisations to optimize their space utilization and create more engaging and collaborative work environments while significantly reducing costs. Their product Locatee Analytics is a big data analytics platform that enables smart and occupant-oriented office buildings. Locatee was founded in early 2015 by Thomas Kessler and Benedikt Köppel and already counts major businesses such as Zurich Insurance, ABB, Swiss Post and UPC among its clients. The company currently has 14 employees and has ambitions for strong growth over the coming years. Thomas Kessler, CEO of Locatee, says: “With Flurin, we have found the perfect match to complement our management team for the upcoming growth phase. His broad experience in B2B product management and his strong aptitude for design make him the backbone of our product development team.”

The last 3 years have been extremely exciting for us:

We measured 416 million data points, rolled out our solution on 2 continents at 20 customers, pitched our solution 427 times, covered 545 kilometres by foot, ski or sledge and laughed together for 57,300 minutes – our latest achievement: In May, 3 new team members joined the Locatee family of now total 14 employees.

THANK YOU

to all our customers, partners, advisors and enthusiasts for your support, trust and collaboration!

During the last months we have been improving our Smart Building Platform «Locatee Analytics» in many areas. We are happy to announce a brand new release.

The highlights of the new release are:

Revamped user interface

The entire user interface of Locatee Analytics got a profound refresh. The new modern and minimalistic look & feel provides a more intuitive user experience through a clear colour concept and an optimized typography.

Assigned Space View

From the Sharing Ratio view you can now access detailed space utilization insights per department (we call it Assigned Space View). In the Assigned Space View you can easily identify overcapacity and communicate it to the departments in order to further optimize the space utilization.

Email notifications

You can now subscribe to notifications which contain the most relevant utilization metrics such as utilization peaks or the current utilization of a building, floor or department. These subscriptions will be sent automatically on a defined schedule (e.g. every morning or weekly) to your email address. Thereby Locatee Analytics will keep you informed about desired utilization metrics.

Please get in touch if you would like to have more information about Locatee Analytics and the latest releases.

The information provided allows existing workplace concepts to be easily optimised: for example, more employees or workplaces can be assigned to an existing office space. Workplaces and plans can be communicated using the interface between Locatee Analytics and CAMPOS; the plans don’t have to be updated in the various systems, as the exchange occurs automatically. CAMPOS thereby enables everyone involved in the property to work from the same basis.

About CAMPOS

CAMPOS’ CAFM solution shows owners, portfolio managers, users, managers, administrators and service providers the status of a property and its facilities. The CAFM solution supports visual work and can connect everyone involved in the project, internally and externally, via an innovative web portal.

Source (German only): https://www.campos.ch/medien-news/news/#campos-und-locatee

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The term property technology – or PropTech for short – stands for modern technological developments in the real estate business. This generally includes the introduction or optimization of products, processes or entire business ideas using the latest information and communication technologies. Around the world as well as in Switzerland, PropTech companies are gaining ground with the aim to disrupt established, traditional business models. To find out more about these PropTech firms, which are in most cases start-ups, Credit Suisse and SwissPropTech joined forces to conduct the Swiss PropTech Survey. This publication summarizes the key findings of this survey, the first of its kind.

Download the survey (German)

Employee mobility is on the increase, and the way that office space is used has changed radically. Most office buildings are barely half full, even at peak times – which means huge potential for optimisation. The problem is: in order to best utilise the available floor space, companies must understand what is actually going on in their office buildings. How often is a particular workplace or conference room used? At the same time, employees in open-plan offices with flexible workplace concepts are frequently faced with the problem of locating a free workstation or meeting room at short notice. The solution lies in real-time data, which serve as the basis for smart, user-oriented office buildings. Through their Connected Lighting System, Regent – leading and innovative lighting manufacturer based in Switzerland – is able to create office lighting networks, bringing the Internet of Things into modern office buildings. “The sensor technology integrated into our luminaires delivers a wealth of real-time data,” Christoph Platzer, Head of Product Management at Regent explains. “We regard lighting as an important, and indeed key, part of smart office buildings.” With their specially developed smart building platform Locatee Analytics the Zürich-based start-up company Locatee is already providing more than 10 major companies at home and abroad (Swiss Post, UPC, Biogen, ABB etc.) with valuable services to enable them to handle real-time building data.

Locatee’s patent pending Big Data technology analyses different data sources, for example from the existing IT infrastructure, and renders them totally anonymous. Together the two companies have developed the lighting solution: Light Hub powered by Locatee. This combines Regent’s Connected Lighting System with the Big Data technology from Locatee. «In this age of the Internet of Things increasingly more objects, such as luminaires, are becoming interconnected and are thus an integral part of the building infrastructure, similar to an IT infrastructure», Thomas Kessler, co-founder and CEO of Locatee points out. «We see the partnership with Regent and the analysis of data collected through the Connected Lighting System as an ideal complement to our existing platform». Based on the data retrieved from the luminaires, Light Hub provides a simple opportunity to analyse the utilisation of the office space, optimise the number of workplaces actually needed, and to save costs accordingly. Furthermore, employees have an easier time locating free workplaces or conference rooms. And clients using Light Hub can opt to upgrade their building and use Locatee’s smart building platform at any time. Thanks to being able to combine data from the existing LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure, more than 100 so-called smart building scenarios can be supported without the owner having to invest in any additional hardware. These range from the portfolio analysis of the utilisation of the space, to the analysis of the mobility and collaborative behaviour of the organisation, to a mobile app for office employees. Find more about the advantages of Light Hub powered by Locatee at: www.regent.ch/lighthub

About Regent

Founded as a family company in 1908, Regent is today the market leader in Switzerland and one of the leading luminaire manufacturers in Europe Regent products are sold internationally through distribution partners in 35 countries around the world. Thanks to their extensive expertise and knowhow in the field of light and lighting, Regent’s team of experts is able to offer advice and guidance to lighting designers, architects, electrical installers and end-users. It is our ethos to explore new technological opportunities to create intuitive lighting solutions to improve work spaces and management functions, and enhance our quality of life. For more information, please visit: www.regent.ch

The Internet of Everything (IoE) continues to bring together people, processes, data and things to enhance the relevancy of network connections. As a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program, Locatee is able to quickly create and deploy solutions to enhance the capabilities, performance and management of the network to capture value in the IoE. “We leverage a company’s existing IT infrastructure to help corporate real estate professionals understand their organization’s workspace demand and optimize its real estate accordingly.” says Thomas Kessler, Founder and CEO. “Being part of the Cisco Solution Partner Program allows us to enhance our solution, integrate it more quickly and achieve our ultimate goal to create a better workspace for the benefit of our customers and their employees.” The Cisco Solution Partner Program, part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem, unites Cisco with thirdparty independent hardware and software vendors to deliver integrated solutions to joint customers. As a Solution Partner, Locatee offers a complementary product offering and has started to collaborate with Cisco to meet the needs of joint customers. For more information on Locatee, go to: https://marketplace.cisco.com/catalog/products/6382