Ethos x Spaceti: Living Lab

Project Objective

This project demonstrates the concept of Place-activation: the ability to manage operations using insights derived from Spaceti’s suite of occupancy and environmental IoT sensors. These location-based insights help organisations better understand how their spaces are used and connect more meaningfully with occupants.

A comprehensive IoT sensor infrastructure and cloud platform have been implemented in our office to enable real-time data acquisition and visualisation. This allows our engineering, advisory, and facilities management teams to monitor, analyse, and respond to conditions in the workplace, meeting, collaborative, wellness, and social areas, supporting healthier and more efficient outcomes.

Project Description

The Living Lab is a data-led IoT engineering initiative developed by Ethos Digital in collaboration with Spaceti. This project reflects our shared goal of enabling smart, responsive work environments and supporting clients in achieving greater performance and sustainability from their built assets.

As IoT deployment reaches maturity, a digital twin of the office is integrated into the building information model (BIM). This virtual representation updates dynamically based on inputs from the sensor network, enabling real-time visualisation of parameters such as occupancy, space utilisation, capacity, and indoor environmental quality. These insights guide building operations and support evidence-based design decisions.

The Living Lab gives us a clear view into both spatial dynamics and building performance. By monitoring variables such as air quality, temperature, and space usage, we gain actionable insight into how our office functions and how to improve it. These insights are also extended to a mobile tenant engagement platform, enabling a more connected, responsive, and occupant-focused workplace experience.

Ethos Input

In a world that is becoming more and more data-driven, it is important to understand variables and metrics in data. Further to the engineering work described above, Ethos Digital has developed a metrics assessment framework to provide the necessary context for the sensor data provided by the IoT sensor layer, allowing it to be interpreted in a manner that provides solutions, rather than further questions.

• Ethos established the relevant ESG, sustainable and wellness parameters necessary to correctly analyse the office space, and carried out market research into the type of sensors and their capabilities to attain and share such data in a digital ecosystem.
• Ethos liaised with their IOT platform partner and multiple 3rd party vendors to develop the online platform dashboards through which we visualise our office’s data, as well as our mobile application services.
• Insights are continuously provided by the digital team using data collected and analysed, which are then used by our engineering, FM and management teams to implement various office / MEP system changes creating a healthier working environment for our staff.

Ethos are the first in the world to be awarded the WELL Performance Rating Certification: an assessment for leveraging building performance and occupant experience data which greatly supports our planned-for shift to a healthier and greater wellness organisational culture. This was achieved based on our ability to leverage real-time date via the Living Lab initiative.

Unique / Key Features

• WELL PERFORMANCE RATING: 1st in the world to be awarded the certification.
• Data-driven workplace.
• IoT sensor layer.
• Workplace technology mobile app.
• UX design.
• Data analytics.
• Smart building systems.
• Space utilisation.