Occupancy Intelligence Solutions

One of the largest public university campuses in the country had billions in real estate under management, a community of 65,000+, and flexible work rewriting how offices get used — yet the planning team was still relying on surveys and anecdotes to decide what to build next. Live occupancy data across 2.5 million sq. ft. told a different story. Moving from one desk per employee to one per four avoided $20M+ in planned construction — and renovating underused space saved another $180K a year in leases.

Unispace's clients wanted real utilization data behind their workplace designs — but the perception was that occupancy sensing costs too much to be practical.

So the firm ran the test in its own Boston office. Sensors were installed in minutes, live foot-traffic data arrived within days, and after 90 days of accuracy validation, Occuspace became part of how Unispace grounds design recommendations for clients nationwide.

What convinced them is in the case study.

On one of the largest corporate campuses in the country, food service ran on guesswork — how many breakfasts, how much lunch prep, how many baristas per shift.

Real-time occupancy alerts changed the math. Batch cooking became possible, service got faster, and waste fell — $67,200 a year in food and labor.

The full playbook is in the case study.

With 27 million square feet across 205 buildings and aging infrastructure to maintain, UCLA needed to align space and facility services with how its campus was actually being used.

At Murphy Hall, occupancy data revealed peak utilization of just 49% and showed that occupancy-based cleaning could reduce custodial staffing needs from five FTEs to four – a 20% efficiency gain that helps cut overtime and redirect staff to high-priority backlogs.

A large state university in the southeastern US needed reliable, continuous occupancy data to modernize how it allocated office space — and make planning decisions based on fact, not assumption.

Continuous occupancy data exposed widespread office underuse, enabling a "use it or lose it" policy that lifted utilization from 19% to 43% and reduced required office space by 32%.

Every department wanted more space. With 41,000 employees, leadership faced constant build-out requests — and saw empty desks everywhere they looked.

So they set one rule: demonstrate utilization to keep your footprint. Measured demand across a 1M sq. ft. pilot delayed 90,000 sq. ft. of planned construction — and the one team that really was growing expanded into space others couldn't justify.