Covid hasn’t slowed down the installation of new Smartalock sites across New Zealand and Australia which is promising for what is otherwise an uncertain time for many businesses.

In New Zealand we have just finished with PWC in Commercial Bay, with 900 odd lockers installed over 5 beautiful floors. Users are self allocating and moving their lockers around depending on where they are working. PWC are also using the floorsense system sold by our sister company. The floorsense pucks and occupancy sensors are actually controlled from the Locker controllers, and managed from a single web interface. We had a nice mention in the NZ Herald as well:

“Mark Averill, chief executive and senior partner at PwC New Zealand, said the move would enable the firm to "adapt to new ways of working and ensure the business remains fit for the future".

He said the Auckland workplace would now offer "collaboration and meeting" options of more than 1000 seats across six floors, including "agile" seating areas, quiet work zones and phone booths, with tech-enabled workstation and "experience" centres.

He said one innovation, floorsense, provides an integrated system for finding and booking workplaces from a mobile phone before reaching the office, with "pucks" used to wirelessly charge mobile phones. He said the latter technology would also lend itself to contact tracing and to enact social distancing, as required”

We also have a few other tenancies in the Commercial Bay building to commission Smartalock lockers into over the next few weeks - more on those installs soon!