# SmartSpace Software subsidiaries sign agreements with XY Sense

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- Published: 2020-10-14T08:22:23+01:00
- Author: Katherine Hargreaves

**SmartSpace Software Plc** ([LON:SMRT](https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/company/smartspace-software-plc/smrt.l))
the leading provider of ‘Integrated Space Management Software’ for smart buildings,
commercial spaces and hospitality, has announced that two of its group businesses,
Anders + Kern and Space Connect have signed agreements with Australian workplace
software provider XY Sense.

**Summary of Agreements**

●     A+K  has strengthened its digital workplace solution portfolio signing a distribution
agreement  with XY Sense, to sell XY Senses’s  real-time computer vision sensor 
hardware and analytics platform, to businesses across the UK through A+K’s 200 resellers
network

●     Space Connect to integrate its workplace software platform into XY Sense to
enable an end-to-end solution for COVID-safe office utilisation monitoring and space
booking, distributed by A+K in the UK

**XY Sense** is an Australian head quartered proptech startup, Co-founded by Serraview
Co-Founder, Alex Birch and Luke Murray. It has designed and engineered a world-leading
smart sensor platform to help businesses access and act on office space utilisation
data in real-time. 

The XY Sense platform consists of proprietary computer vision sensor hardware and
an AI powered analytics platform, where property teams can monitor workspace utilisation
in real-time as well as customise dashboards including meeting room occupancy, desk
utilisation, on a given floor, with teams physically interacting with the office
environment.

Integrating with Space Connect’s  booking automation and visitor management platform,
XY Sense will now be able to allow joint users to close-the-loop on space booking
in agile work environments with XY Sense sensors able to detect whether a booked
room, desk or space is actually being used within a given time period. Unused space
can be recorded as a no-show and updated via Space Connect to be made available 
for others to book and use, making offices more efficient and improving experiences
for workers.

The integration also supports COVID-safe office re-entries with XY Sense’s real-
time monitoring and social distancing alerts able to be configured with Space Connect’s
booking features to support new office occupancy limits and safely match supply 
and demand as people return to offices.

A+K this week announced the launch of its new website. For further details go to:
www.anders-kern.co.uk.

> **Commenting on the partnership, Steven Black, Managing Director at A+K, said:**“
> XY Sense may be a new market entrant but we’ve been seriously impressed with the
> large floor coverage, positional accuracy and real-time analytics capability of
> their workplace sensor solution. The integration with Space Connect takes their
> offering one step further enabling an end-to-end solution for office utilisation
> monitoring and space booking that has clear workplace experience benefits beyond
> just making an office COVID-safe”.

> **Matt Pope, Managing Director of Space Connect added**: “Space Connect already
> offers advanced COVID-19 space management safety features and with this integration
> we’re able to use real-time sensor data to close the loop on space booking, usage
> tracking and cleaning. We’re really excited about this integration with XY Sense
> and property teams should be too.”

> **XY Sense Co-founder and CEO, Alex Birch further commented**: “We’re excited 
> to be partnering with A+K to offer a new kind of workplace sensor solution to 
> businesses across the UK. Our advanced workplace sensor system combined with our
> new integration with Space Connect puts real-time, pinpoint accurate utilisation
> data in the hands of property teams, helping them ensure a COVID-safe office re-
> entry and to measure before they act on workplace changes or downsizing in response
> to changed market conditions.”

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