People Flow Sensing Solutions with KONE

Opportunity overview

KONE is on a mission to improve the flow of urban life. Good people flow means people moving smoothly, safely, comfortably, and without waiting in and between buildings. At the same time, property managers face challenges to understand how people use their smart buildings and how to make decisions based on people flow data. These KONE customers may not have the capabilities to analyze the available data and the data may be overall difficult to comprehend.

To help customers increase their understanding of how their buildings are used and to create meaningful business insights, KONE wants to develop its people flow sensing and analytics capabilities. By enriching smart sensor data, property managers can overcome people flow bottlenecks and improve user experience, efficiency, maintenance, sustainability, and adaptability of buildings. Additionally, buildings can be automated further through the intelligent optimization of equipment such as elevators, based on smarter people flow monitoring and prediction.

We are now looking to partner up with innovative solution providers that provide accurate and smart sensor-based data acquisition or analytics solutions on site. The acquired and pre-processed data should help to increase the awareness of smart building usage and human behavior inside buildings or their close surroundings, including busy areas such as building lobbies. The data could be utilized for various purposes, such as visual representations for KONE customers. Overall, we are interested in novel but proven sensor-based solutions and are open to different types of approaches on how your solution can support KONE and its customers.