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02 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in Uncategorized
Indyhall report – videos from ‘extreme’ coworkers.
16 Monday Jan 2012
From the generation that brought you social media…
Worth viewing the Indyhall videos from the location created by Alex Hillman and colleague.
More later…
API documentation project
16 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in access control (physical), API, Business Centers, cowork
CoWorking Europe 2011 – Report
09 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in cowork
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Alex Hillman, Berlin Conference, cowork, cowork survey, deskmag, deskwanted, Emergent Research, Indy Hall
Personal Observations from the Conference are below or you can download a PDF.
2nd Coworking Conference Berlin, Nov 2011
This is a selection of personal observations from the European Coworking Conference. Details at www.coworkingconference.com/ and www.facebook.com/groups/coworkingeurope/
deskmag Global CoWorking Survey reveals financial state of CoWorking spaces.
This major study across nearly 1000 coworkers in the USA and Europe revealed that only about 40% of coworking sites are currently profitable, although another 23% felt they were breaking even. However, 75% of founders have additional incomes and activities, which suggests that some spaces are profitable only because their founders are not a drain.
Early Adopter Programme Open
05 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in access control (physical), Business Centers, cowork, DoorGuard, venues
Update – We expect DoorGuard documentation to be available 13th or 14th October. This includes order information, installation details, planning and more.
“Follow” the blog to get an update notice or check back here, or email.
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See the Early Adopter Page to register if you haven’t already.
Reboot WiFi?
14 Wednesday Sep 2011
Posted in Business Centers, hospitality, Uncategorized, venues, WiFi
3000 Users, 150 Photographers in a very small space!
Recently we’ve started discussions to bring our WiFi2 technology as used at London FashionWeek into business centres.
This is prompted principally by the fact that many high – achieving office workers now carry 3 or more personal devices with WiFI. This includes Tablet or Ipad, Smartphone and a laptop. This is a density issue which old style access points can’t cope with.
Centres are also redesigning space to facilitate much more roaming around the building and users want the connection to follow them without drop outs. There is also an need for much more bandwidth than was the norm.
To do this we use radically different technology. This has lots of potential for operators.
As always we are interested in your comments and needs.
Access Control White Paper
14 Wednesday Sep 2011
This White Paper reports how we have developed IP LOCKS and Cloud based control to create a new way of “letting people in your door”.
Comments invited.
Early Adopter Programme
ThirdPlaceMaker Appliance
14 Wednesday Sep 2011
This White Paper discusses that you need more than WiFi for people to work and interact in a Third place. It finds realization in the Medusa ThirdPlaceMaker.
We are seeking Early Adopters for the programme from go-ahead centres and Coworks
A new controller for Physical Access devices in shared-space
03 Friday Dec 2010
Posted in access control (physical), Business Centers, cowork, hospitality, venues
We are collaborating with the development of new controller for physical access devices.
While there are plenty of devices based on IP to open locks (“strikes”), accept keypad entries, etc, the controllers for these devices are usually windows based and a bit clunky. Also the average shared-space or cowork location has very simple access needs.
A Linux based controller would allow its deployment either in our appliances or in the cloud. It would be available independently. The first device family would be ISONAS.
What interests me is the minimum requirement for this controller – anyone with opinions please comment! I imagine it would provide 2 door strikes, 2 keypads, 200 individual access codes, some alarm functions (out of hours?), and a record of entries and exits. The ability to interface to management software will be useful for coworks.
Input please.
Cowork Appliance Requirement Specification
01 Wednesday Dec 2010
Posted in cowork
This is a document that outlines the requirement for an appliance. It is designed to be general to cover all bases before we move onto detailed technical specifications.
Feel free to comment privately or publicly as you wish.
I will post to LinkedIn groups and someothers in a day or so.
