The global push for smart infrastructure and sustainable urban development is accelerating, driven by demands for operational efficiency, energy conservation, and enhanced public safety. Businesses and municipalities are actively seeking advanced analytics to transform physical spaces into intelligent environments. This technology directly addresses these trends by providing granular insights into human and asset movement, enabling optimized resource allocation and significant cost savings across diverse sectors, from commercial real estate to public transportation networks.
Quantifies and Visualizes Space Utilization: Accurately identifies moving object positions, velocities, and activity levels using range sensors and proprietary analysis, clearly visualizing space usage with numerical data.
Ensures Privacy-Conscious Data Collection: Utilizes range sensors, making individual identification more difficult than with camera footage, enabling high-precision spatial data acquisition while protecting user privacy.
Optimizes Facility Operations and Reduces Costs: Enables optimized control of HVAC/lighting and personnel reallocation based on space activity data, potentially reducing annual operational costs by up to 30%.
This patent protects an analysis system and method for quantifying space utilization by identifying moving object positions and activity levels from range sensor data. The claims cover the core algorithms for setting activity weight values and integrating them over multiple periods, providing a robust and multi-faceted scope of protection.
This patent primarily covers the software algorithms for spatial activity analysis using range sensor data. White space exists in integrating this analysis with other sensor modalities (e.g., environmental, biometric) for richer contextual insights, or developing predictive AI models for future space utilization and dynamic resource allocation.
Assuming a facility currently employs 3 personnel for patrols and utilization monitoring, incurring an annual labor cost of ~$120K (AI est.). This technology could replace duties equivalent to approximately 0.7 personnel, reducing labor costs by ~$28K (AI est.) annually. Additionally, optimizing space utilization could reduce HVAC/lighting energy costs by 10%, saving ~$15K (AI est.) annually from an estimated ~$150K (AI est.) annual energy expenditure. This totals an estimated annual economic impact of ~$43K (AI est.).
X: Space Utilization Optimization Efficiency
Y: Implementation & Operational Cost Performance