The New Agile Office

Building on 22Miles award-winning CMS, the latest version was developed and designed to provide user simplicity and capture creativity in an agile workflow environment.
The new PublisherPro.AIoT was completely rethought with an amalgamation of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things ready-to-connect solutions. It engages teams and propels them into a whole new experience, while leveraging all its features, from creation, scheduling, publishing, and analytics, all in a simple and straightforward platform.

Video 1. Intel® NUC and 22Miles, equipping the agile office in the new normal.

Simpler Management and Accessibility
Through the enhanced Web Editor, users of any level can work on projects to the level of complexity they desire. For novice users, easy template-based creation is available for fast project completion, with Quick Edit functionality features settings, focused fields, intuitive workflow requiring minimal learning, and straight forward design for on the go editing. For the more seasoned users who are familiar with the multi-node design and conceptual intricacy, Pro Edit allows ultimate control and functionality for more complex digital signage projects.

Control every zone, layer, and area of the video wall display from the powerfully integrated Video Wall Mapping controls of PublishPro.AIoT. This enhanced video wall scheduling, zoning, and editing functionality empower the administrator with complete control over every screen, no matter the complexity of the video wall screen array.
Speech is the new touch with Voice Control, it enables voice interaction with kiosks and other digital signage assets more hygienically and efficiently. With no additional set up required, the system adds drag and drop widget-based features and sensor-based triggering technology, leading to an immersive user experience with voice and image in the case of facial detection.
PublisherPro.AIoT’s modular, and easy to repurpose capability through the Template & Widgets Creator, makes templates act as your limitless rooms and widgets act as your walls and furniture, empowering users with the building blocks to create, expand, and replicate. The result is a customizable constructive environment that inspires not just thinking out of the box-but creating both the box and the world around it.

A legacy of R&D since inception
22Miles continue to invest heavily in R&D to ensure we’re always ahead of the technology curve and remain as innovative as ever. Features in our previous version are continuously enhanced to ensure our customers’ engagements generate a greater return on investment, and our solutions life cycle is evergreen.
Through our Enhanced Wayfinding, including Floor Plan designer, GeoJSON for Google/Apple/ArcGIS, and other map platforms, users will enjoy a more responsive mobile 3D wayfinding and API, paired with a smarter human-readable turn-by-turn algorithm. Voice command control connected to wayfinding allows for an improved ADA experience.
PublisherPro.AIoT takes our Augmented Reality (AR) solution to the next level, allowing breadcrumb super-imposed design through native support of the iOS AR Kit and Android AR Core. Furthermore, it brings more updates and design features with machine-learning-based image recognition.
The intuitive and innovative system of computer vision from the phone’s camera to any landmark creates a positioning solution without the need for BLE or WIFI RTLS systems.
The ever-expanding spectrum of technology partner integration, along with the latest release features, significantly raises the bar on the existing Room Booking capability. The new version features a UX grounded in agile workplace design, creating efficiency and convenience with sensor-driven devices. Building on the award-winning 22Miles flexibility, the new management system allows for next-gen capability creating a true operational synergy where features such as room booking, wayfinding, AR, hoteling to live directory displays & much more, work in tandem to redefine the immersive navigational landscape of any corporate or commercial environment.
Real-time system triggering allows for a smoother and faster user experience through the Enhanced System Optimization, as content updates occur in an optimized automation environment that minimizes latency.
Manage the digital signage system from the convenience of a mobile device through the Enhanced Management App. Receive push notifications that keep stakeholders informed on the status of the individual digital signage and inter-connected devices. Completely configurable to the user preferences, lifting the veil on problems that arise in the system to instill efficiency and swift resolution to system issues.

PublisherPro.AIoT and Intel – A Wayfinding solution for the new normal

Let’s take a look at the new floor-plan

Voice Command Control

Starting at the entrance of the building or office; Intel-powered visual communications screens display dynamically all the necessary information to maintain proper personal hygiene, respect the 6-foot distance, and the preference to wear some sort of a face covering, with other relevant information.

With no physical contact, these displays/kiosks provide an abundance of features, from physical temperature checks with thermal scanning and touch-less voice control, to emergency alerts, updated news, and bulletins, all centrally managed. Some are even providing additional access-control technology ranging from contact-less RFID or facial detection and recognition and physical checks with thermal scanning.

This thermal screening technology is actually helping to reopen the economy as many experts are commenting, as these automated kiosks are proving to add value to access and flow control, maintaining a safe work environment and a secure route for visitors to their destinations, a must for getting back to the physical office.

TempDefend Thermal Sensing

Continuing down that one-way journey, the next stop is the reception area, which might be equipped with additional visual communication tools, directing staff and visitors alike to their work or meeting areas.

Here, interactive wayfinding supports scheduled navigation to control traffic pathways and flow around the workplace; from cafeteria usage, break-rooms, or other common areas for spatial consideration. Moreover, features like the virtual receptionist, room booking and hoteling, regulate available huddle space or conference rooms so there are fewer people wandering the halls, and instead can now dynamically see their planned routes, or visualize their availabilities and land in their allocated rooms quickly while controlling professional distancing at the office.

Mobile app solution

Mobile can also be leveraged to further highlight routes, dynamically and on-the-go to avoid clusters, and to provide density controls for a safer work environment.
With the adoption of interactive wayfinding, the user experience is enhanced with multi-floor destinations, screen navigation orientation, ADA compliance within a smart-pathway algorithm.
The ideal solution should now provide additional wayfinding features for best social/professional distancing and occupancy controls. The system will be leveraging preferred route scheduling to control traffic flow or one-way routing, to also assist with managing break room and cafeteria usage per scheduled office regions and departments.

Considering more AIoT type applications from sensors and even smart voice controls, in order to avoid contact with screens, this will allow auto-generated routes based on the personalized shortest path, and ease of accessibility with smart detour scheduling for safe movements in the office or campus. Along that navigation path, dynamic pop-ups will add alerts and safety notices with images and descriptions. This experience can be ported to the mobile device with instant turn by turn directions through SMS, QR codes, and emails.

With all its features and benefits, and live feedback and utilization data received through the analytics engine, it is fundamental that organizations adopt wayfinding as a means to fast track their digital transformation for a safer return to the office.

Looking at the new floor plan, be it huddle rooms, open offices, or hot-desks, the 6-foot distance markings will be noticeable around actual seats and tables. Hot-desking provides an additional advantage by blocking some ‘red-desks’ and allowing the use of ‘green-desks’ to dynamically distribute the space per usage for that particular shift or office capacity, and that applies to meetings and room bookings too. As a best practice, and with a blended work option, more and more team members are placed on staggered or rotating shifts so those offices aren’t filled to capacity, and ample professional distancing is maintained.

Workstation booking, hot-desking

This integrated system, running on adequately selected hardware that ties in-office capacity with sensors and edge devices, collaboration, visual communications, safe access, and interactive wayfinding, will significantly create a safe, and more favorable work environment and an effective strategy for the return to the office, in addition to improved productivity.

22Miles offers Digital Signage solutions for government agencies, hospitals & healthcare facilities, corporations, and organizations of all types. Internal & emergency alerts, integrated COVID-19 plan Routing/wayfinding, and data analytics metrics are just some of the feature advantages to ensuring these vital facilities stay connected and effective during this pandemic.

22Miles Inc. an Intel® IoT Solutions Alliance Affiliate, has been a leader in Digital Signage & Wayfinding for nearly two decades.
From the beginning, Intel®has played a pivotal role, with the two companies working together to lead the industry in the development of a unique technological ecosystem, a system featuring the advanced processing power of Intel®solutions, combined with 22Miles’ Digital Signage and Wayfinding CMS engine.
22Miles award-winning software helps customers seamlessly develop and deploy unique projects, serving the Banking, Government, Corporate, Education, Gaming, Healthcare, Hospitality, Quick Service Restaurants, Smart Retail, Transportation, Venue space, and other markets.

For more information, visit https://marketplace.intel.com/