Kontakt.io Plugin + Cisco Spaces
With Kontakt.io's Portal Beam and Cisco Spaces, you'll have complete visibility into your workspace room occupancy and get insights and analytics to help you understand how spaces are being used. The Portal Beam integrates with your existing Cisco Access Point infrastructure, making it easy to deploy and scale across different locations without a significant additional investment.
Where room occupancy displays in Cisco Spaces
Portal Beam people count (room occupancy) data displays in the following Cisco Spaces apps.
| App or feature | Frequency of data | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Kiosk | Real time | People count on the Digital Map |
| Space Manager > Room Occupancy view | Real time | Room occupancy: occupied or unoccupied |
| Space Manager > Room Occupancy report | Historical | People count and room occupancy as an exportable report (beta) |
| Space Utilization > Room Occupancy charts | Historical | Room occupancy charts |
Room occupancy in a kiosk
Room occupancy in Space Manager
How many Portal Beams a room needs
One Portal Beam counts up to 10 people in a room. For a room where occupancy can be more than 10 people, install more than one Portal Beam and calibrate the room from the Kio Setup Manager mobile app for iPhone or iPad, signed in with Cisco Spaces Account. Room calibration lets the beams count each person in the room once.
Deployment at-a-glance
To get room outcomes almost immediately, all that's needed is to complete steps detailed in the deployment guide.
There are a few deployment steps completed from your Cisco Spaces account and then you're ready to begin mounting Portal Beams. The Kontakt.io Device Management Plugin provides access to Kontakt.io's Kio Setup Manager. From this app, you can verify the people and objects detected within a Portal Beam's coverage area and more!
Kio Setup Manager features
Use Kio Setup Manager for iPhone or iPad, signed in with Cisco Spaces Account, to:
Install a Portal Beam in its room. Installing the beam also associates it with that room in Cisco Spaces.
Capture a Portal Beam's real-time thermal image to verify people detection within its field of view (coverage area), and upload the image to the Kontakt.io Device Management Plugin as a troubleshooting resource.
Set Exclusion Zones for non-human, stationary heat source objects or other areas that need to be excluded from occupancy detection. Examples of heat source objects include a TV, window, or other type of electrical device.
Calibrate a room with more than one Portal Beam, so the beams count each person in the room once. Room calibration is available only in the iPhone or iPad app.
Apply available firmware updates.
Exclusion Zone examples
The following Portal Beam thermal images show how Exclusion Zones can be set to exclude objects or areas from occupancy detection. Each exclusion zone is outlined in red.
Hot objects: wall-mounted TV and window excluded from occupancy detection.
| Captured thermal image |
TV and window set to exclusion zones |
Large room: two specific areas excluded from occupancy detection.
| Captured thermal image |
Two areas set to exclusion zones |