January 19, 2021 Purple partnership further improves visitor experience for businesses Purple, the intelligent spaces company has announced its partnership with Allied Telesis, a leading provider of hardware and software products that allow customers to build secure, feature-rich, and scalable data exchange solutions, supporting their TQ5403 Series of wireless Access Points. Data analytics are imperative when it comes to optimizing venue operating costs and public safety… Read More
January 15, 2021 How to keep your business safe online in 2021 If the majority of your business wasn’t conducted online prior to the pandemic, I can almost guarantee that now, in some form or another a key part of your business can be found online and that’s why it’s important to protect it. Unsurprisingly the need for correct cybersecurity personnel and practices has only increased during… Read More
January 08, 2021 Venue safety is the new differentiator, here’s why COVID has driven a huge shift in the way people behave and businesses are having to adapt, quickly. Here are a few fairly alarming statistics: 49% of people avoid leaving their homes 50% of employees are reluctant to go back to the office Three out of four customers fear getting COVID whilst shopping 75% of… Read More
January 04, 2021 Natural distribution of people through information The queue, or line if you are over the pond, has a long history. The first format of it was from the 19th century with the industrial revolution as more people gravitated to cities in the UK. Unsurprisingly, having invented it, Britain is world-famous for our orderly queues. There is however a misconception that Brits… Read More
December 18, 2020 The role of automation in digital transformation As the digital age continues to evolve, more and more businesses seek to gain an edge over the competition. For all its benefits and new frontiers, this age has also created new figurative battlefields for technological innovation. Thus, many consider “going digital” or undergoing a “digital transformation”, and for a good reason. However, it may… Read More
December 16, 2020 Top 5 technology trends to watch for in 2021 Esports, healthcare technology, and occupancy management are some of the top technologies to look out for in 2021 Innovation in technology seems to be more and more rapid each year. But the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the rate at which technology evolves to accelerate further and in a way we have never seen before. The… Read More
December 08, 2020 TripAdvisor’s “Travel Safe” Tools Explained. I’ve written quite a lot recently about how consumer sentiment towards safety and risk has changed more in the past 9 months than it has for the majority of my life. Until recently safety was a given. If you visited a shop or a restaurant you expected to be safe. No one was banging on… Read More
December 07, 2020 Automating your visitor count, achieving 98% people counting accuracy Manually counting people in and out is an inefficient way to collect numbers of visitors, in addition to this, many venues are having to hire additional members of staff to assist with this. Venues globally, such as supermarkets and high street retailers have opted to implement a one-in-one-out strategy, where a member of staff stands… Read More
December 04, 2020 What will going to work look like in 2021? Top 5 tips from the Tech Giants on new ways of working, heard at Web Summit 2020 I’ve just spent 3 days listening to lots of different speakers at the Lisbon Web Summit 2020. As the Wall Street Journal said, it’s where ‘the giants of the web assemble’. This is an event we attend to… Read More
December 03, 2020 Game-changing insights hanging from your wall or ceiling Many businesses have existing infrastructure that can be repurposed to meet the needs of the COVID world and beyond 2020 has changed the way we interact with physical spaces forever. Whether that be changes in the workplace such as employees only visiting the office once or twice a week as opposed to the traditional 9… Read More
November 24, 2020 The litigation for Covid-19 has started, where will it go for employers and business? As sure as water flows downhill it was inevitable that litigation would flow from the pandemic as lawyers sharpen their teeth and let the blame game begin! I was prompted to write this as I have had a flurry of interest from the PE and VC community, which is great, and they share our theory… Read More
November 23, 2020 The intelligent university campus Universities have been in the news recently for multiple reasons, specifically how they keep their students safe while delivering on the tuition and learning that those students are paying for. The uniqueness of the university business model means that those institutions are under acute pressure to deliver, from their students (both current and future) and… Read More
November 18, 2020 Purple develops a low-cost solution to occupancy control and visitor counting Low-cost solution to occupancy control enabling venues to optimize safety, comply with government guidance and offer visual reassurance to visitors by publicly displaying live occupancy numbers The solution connects with hardware that many venues already have installed, whether that’s access points or sensors (typically used for security), so offers an effective and low-cost solution The… Read More
November 16, 2020 Analytics for physical spaces, really? Imagine we’re sat having a beer together and I’m chatting to you about my amazing eCommerce business, you’re naturally curious of course, and ask about how many visitors I have, how often they come, what the conversion rate is, all logical questions given the topic we’re discussing, to which however I look blankly back at… Read More
November 05, 2020 The new normal office environment You don’t know what you don’t know and the world we live in is full of unknowns and there are many people scratching their head and trying to predict what the new normal might be on many fronts. For most physical spaces and most definitely office spaces we do know it won’t be the same… Read More
October 22, 2020 The importance of reliable indoor mobile coverage during COVID-19 As the world entered 2020, came along the novel coronavirus driving the demand for Internet services and reaching its peak as never before. Slowly and gradually, it became the ‘New Normal’ way of communication such as doing business with people remotely, online video consultations with patients, streaming videos, and socializing virtually via video conferencing for… Read More
