Cisco’s Penn One office in New York represents a vision for the modern intelligent workplace, where building systems and network infrastructure work together to create a more connected environment. With aida™ Controller working alongside Cisco Spaces, the deployment demonstrates how building intelligence can become part of the workplace experience.
The Customer’s Need
Modern workplaces rely on multiple systems to support lighting, environmental conditions, security, and collaboration. When these systems operate independently, it can be harder for facility and IT teams to gain a unified view of how a building operates.
Cisco’s Intelligent Workplace Experience brings these elements together through connected infrastructure and data-driven insights. At Penn One, the approach supports a more integrated workplace where building systems and workplace technology can work together.
The Cisco Solution
Cisco provides the network and workplace technology foundation for the intelligent workplace.
- Connected network infrastructure: Supports building technologies and connected workplace devices.
- Cisco Spaces: Provides workplace and space-utilization insights to help organizations understand how their spaces are used.
- Integrated workplace experience: Connects workplace technology and building data to support more informed operational decisions.
This network-based approach creates a foundation for integrating building systems with workplace analytics.
The aida™ Solution
Building AI Solutions’ aida™ Controller adds a smart-building intelligence layer to the connected workplace.
- Building-system integration: Helps connect supported building systems within a unified control environment.
- Centralized visibility: Provides a platform for monitoring and managing connected building technologies.
- Integration with Cisco Spaces: Complements workplace-utilization insights with building-system intelligence.
- A foundation for automation: Supports smarter building operations through connected devices, data, and control capabilities.
Together, Cisco Spaces and aida™ address complementary aspects of the intelligent workplace: how people use a space and how its connected building systems operate.
The Outcome
The Penn One deployment demonstrates how network infrastructure, workplace analytics, and smart-building controls can work together as part of a connected workplace strategy.
By combining Cisco’s workplace technology with aida™, the deployment provides an example of how building intelligence can complement workplace-utilization insights and support more integrated building operations.
The broader deployment program is also expanding internationally, with aida™ being deployed at Cisco Singapore and planned for Cisco locations in San Jose, Amsterdam, and Dubai.
A Connected Approach to the Intelligent Workplace
The Penn One deployment illustrates the potential of combining enterprise networking, workplace analytics, and smart-building technology. By bringing these capabilities together, Cisco and aida™ demonstrate an approach to making building operations more connected, observable, and responsive.
Learn more: Read MHT Technologies’ article, Cisco’s Intelligent Workplace Experience Starts With the Network.
Important before publication: The Penn One deployment and the international rollout status come from your internal project notes. The public MHT article provides supporting context, but it does not establish that Cisco has authorized Building AI Solutions to identify it publicly as an aida customer. Get that written approval first. I have also avoided inventing measured results or a customer quote.
Source: MHT Technologies — Cisco’s Intelligent Workplace Experience Starts With the Network
