COWORKING CO-LIVING COEXISTING Technology in the Shared Space Sector One key advantage of today’s connected world is the flexibility it provides, creating a digitally nomadic lifestyle and expanding the parameters of the way we live and work. This is no more prevalent than in the shared space environment, offering co-working and co-living experiences that combine the comfort of a hotel, with the technology and collaboration of an office or home environment. With the number of co-living properties doubling in the last two years and a flexible workspace market value of $26 billion*, the shared space sector is on a sharp ascendency. Shared space properties - truly functional mixed-use buildings, underpinned by robust technology infrastructure, will soon be commonplace. * JLL — Flexible Workspace Markets 2019
THE COLLECTIVE, CANARY WHARF
The Collective, Canary Wharf, is the world's largest co-living space. The cutting-edge building offers a new standard of design-led communal spaces and living experiences, built to facilitate moments of connection between members. Offering shared spaces, a cultural events programme and gym membership, the Collective tackles issues such as shortages in affordable housing and declining mental wellbeing. The Collective's serviced living space provides fully furnished rooms and apartments in some of London's most iconic locations; Airwave was honoured to provide display-based technology to the latest space in Canary Wharf. Recommending Samsung’s 690 series of SMART hospitality TVs, Airwave installed 705 screens into the property's bedrooms. Recognising the Collective's cultural events programme and the need to inform guests of the conveyor belt of events at Canary's Wharf's site, Airwave embedded an Otrum Enterprise interactive information system on each TV. The Enterprise platform is a powerful tool, allowing properties to quickly and efficiently disseminate information to the guest-room TV. However, all information and no play, makes the Collective a dull boy, and with this in mind, Airwave implemented hospitality certified Google Chromecast via the Otrum user interface, enabling residents to cast content from their portable device to the room's TV. This of course, provides residents access to the almost infinite supply of content provided by apps such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, BBC iPlayer etc.
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FORA WORKSPACES
With 12 London-centric locations (Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Old Street, Clerkenwell, Fitzrovia, Soho, Shoreditch, Borough, Reading & Southwark) Fora provide premium, modern workspaces for a variety of business types. Founded in 2014, Fora is a product of a shared vision to create a workspace that embraces and elevates modern working life. And of course, modern workspace requires modern technology - with this in mind, the deployment of a cutting-edge messaging system to work across Fora's estate, was high on the agenda. Airwave and partner Otrum collaborated, together installing and implementing a digital signage content management system to run across Fora's estate of signage screens. The result? A very happy customer, To see for yourself, scan the QR code:
CITADINES ISLINGTON
Citadines specialises in apart-hotel accommodation, combining the space and amenities of an apartment with the support services of a hotel. With 250 properties situated across the globe, Citadines is a world leader in the provision of serviced apartment facilities. Having previously supplied TV systems to all of Citadines' six London properties, Airwave was duly tasked to upgrade the television technology in Citadines’ new Islington property. Samsung 690 Series hospitality TVs were recommended, with 143 x 43-inch and 49-inch displays wall-mounted in the guest-rooms. Of course, a top-quality TV entertainment system needs to be underpinned by fast, robust WiFi. A RAN (room area network) was implemented by Airwave partner, WiFi and Internet services provider, Wifirst (also a Citadines key partner, having supplied internet services to 40 Citadines properties in Europe).
Wifirst and Airwave engineers worked together, assessing, restructuring and improving the property’s network infrastructure - ultimately, providing Citadines Islington with a lightning fast WiFi connection. “Our WiFi provision offers the guest, a secure, easy and fast connection to the room’s WiFi network, thanks to our RAN” said Wifirst Technical Director, Vincent Jouan “we promise an intuitive connection journey of no more than 5 seconds, just scan a QR code and you’re connected to the internet, it’s that easy!” To find out more about Wifirst’s, industryleading internet service offering, see page 22
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