How to connect occupancy signals

Microsoft Places analytics signals onboarding overview

Microsoft Places analytics helps real estate and facility managers understand, analyze, and optimize space usage across buildings, rooms, desk pools, and individual desks.

Several articles are available to help you understand how the signals used by Places Analytics can be used to better understand workplace utilization.

Places Analytics uses both first-party and third-party data sources to measure and visualize the use of spaces. The following articles can help you:

  • Understand the signals used to build analytics dashboards and where those signals originate.
  • Learn how to onboard and integrate occupancy signals available within your organization into Places Analytics.

Prerequisites

Before you can use Microsoft Places Analytics, buildings must be onboarded to Microsoft Places and enabled for Places Analytics.

Onboarded buildings should include city, state/province, and country/region information to ensure accurate reporting in Places Analytics. You should also ensure that metadata has been configured for all buildings, rooms, desk pools, and individual desks.

The following articles provide detailed information about how analytics signals can help you better understand workplace usage: