All you should know about Smart Spaces and its future impact

What are Smart Spaces?

Smart spaces are facilities or public areas outfitted with sensors to collect data that can be used to generate insights about its environmental conditions, the services it provides, and how occupants interact with their environment. These smart spaces insights can be captured in real-time and from historical data, and then used in improving safety, operations, and the experiences of the people using the space.

When enabled by technologies like IoT and 5G wireless, which are now capable of monitoring municipal operations using real-time data to bring a level of service to citizens with uncharacteristic efficiency, smart space paradigms are also shared across regions, extending over cities.

Use of Technology in creating smart spaces

We can classify smart enabling technologies according to their purpose using this multi-layered approach to smart space environments (virtual, physical, and human levels).

Virtual Computing Environment — This layer gives smart devices access to private network services or the internet, which enables them to connect to other components of the distributed systems that run the smart space environment.

Physical Environment – The most diverse layer of smart spaces is the physical environment layer, which contains the embedded sensors, microprocessors, tracking tags, and other tangible components of the smart space.

Human Environment — This layer is made up of gadgets that people use in conjunction with their environment, such as pacemakers, wearable smart devices, and smartphones. This means that humans can develop smart space environments using cell towers, cell networks, and smartphones to create a virtual, physical, and human environment that can be thought of as a large area smart space, similar to how route-planning apps can be used to create smart spaces.

Benefits of Smart Spaces

The deep integration of these technologies into our daily lives demonstrates how successfully they have achieved their general goals of enhancing efficiency, security, and safety.

Any measurable aspect of efficiency is improved by smart space technology. Smart technology often focuses on lowering overall operational expenses of buildings by avoiding resource and utility waste. Meters for electricity or water may readily be equipped with sensors, making them prime candidates for smart monitoring.

In places where there are risks of danger or accidents, smart spaces promote safety and risk mitigation. Smart technology, such as the use of intelligent robots in industrial applications, can replace human workers performing dangerous activities. By replacing humans with these robots in numerous tedious and repetitive jobs like moving inventory palettes, productivity has grown.

Smart environments improve user experience by automating many of our daily “clerical” duties, including checking the lighting, that were previously performed by humans. Using smart space technology is now driven by the desire to enhance the experience of occupants within a space for business purposes. These buildings are becoming more collaborative, informative, and effective thanks to smart office technologies that can connect remote workers, smart conference rooms, scheduling systems, and sensors covering every component of the facility. Several manufacturers advertise a sizable central wall display that serves as a focal point for business activities and shows real-time information. For example, a hospital could use this display to show which doctors are present, which operations are planned, or which rooms are filled.

Common technologies used in these are: