IoT Desk

The IoT Desk enables a connected workplace by providing adaptability, granular thermal comfort measurements, greater control, personalised lighting and metering of power to create a more dynamic, responsive environment.

The IoT Desk is an applied research project exploring how technology and occupant interaction within buildings could be radically changed by drivers from mobile technology, pervasive networks, sensors, and rapid manufacturing and how open technologies and standards provide a significant opportunity for innovation around how building systems could be designed and function in the future.

In a significant break away from the current industry approach, the IoT Desk explores an open controls philosophy based on scalable web technologies that enable simplified, adaptable, horizontal integration of systems at lower cost. This approach presents the opportunity to create a building-wide Internet of Things (IoT) where sensing and actuating devices are addressable and configurable in a homogeneous way.

The initial technological exploration by this project has led to many exciting opportunities including a collaboration with Konica Minolta to deliver connected desks and devices for use in the workplace and with OpenDesk to embed sensing and user interfaces in their digitally manufactured furniture.