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Commercial property · Early access

Know how your buildings are really used.

VideoBI counts the people who use your buildings, including the visitors badge data misses: how many come through the lobby and when, which amenity floors earn their space, how full the garage is at 10 am, how long the loading dock is blocked. It turns the cameras you already run for security into the evidence behind leasing, capital and operating decisions across a portfolio.

An office building lobby at 8:45 am seen from a ceiling camera
The blind spot

You're pricing space on assumptions about how it's used.

Leasing, amenity investment and operating budgets depend on how buildings are used, hour by hour. Badge swipes miss visitors, tailgaters and anyone in the garage; surveys are months old, and decisions worth millions are made from them.

Utilization is a guess

Badge counts miss visitors and shared entries, and say nothing about the garage, the plaza or the amenity floor.

Amenities are judged by anecdote

The fitness center or conference floor that tenants say they want may sit empty most of the day.

Operations run on fixed schedules

Cleaning, security and loading dock staffing follow a fixed timetable that may not match when the building is busy.

What VideoBI measures

Every camera becomes a source of data.

An edge device on site reads the cameras and writes readings for the zones that matter. The video stays in the building.

An office lobby with reception and turnstilesLobby · 142 in since 8:00

Lobbies and entrances

People in and out by entrance and hour, peak occupancy

An office parking garage entranceGarage 68% full · 9:40

Parking and garages

Stalls occupied by level and hour, entries, turnover

An office tower loading dockBay 2 · occupied 34 min

Loading docks and service areas

Bays occupied and for how long, deliveries by hour, after-hours activity

Performance

Where measurement raises revenue and lowers costs.

Revenue up

Price and lease with evidence

Measured occupancy and foot traffic by building, floor and hour support rents and renewals.

Monetize parking

Occupancy by level and hour shows where to sell monthly permits, transient parking or event rates.

Invest in amenities tenants use

Use by hour and day shows which amenities earn their space, and which to repurpose.

Show tenants their building works

Portfolio evidence of return-to-office trends, for leasing and marketing.

Costs down

Schedule cleaning and security to use

Staff to measured occupancy by floor and hour.

Run the dock on data

Bay occupancy and dwell show when a dock master or scheduling pays for itself.

Catch after-hours activity

Doors, docks and garages active outside operating hours, with the still to prove it.

Right-size capital projects

Lobby, elevator and garage upgrades sized from measured peaks.

Every level of the organization

Dashboards for executives, managers and frontline teams.

Each role sees the same governed numbers, arranged for the decisions it makes.

Executives · Decide

How every asset is used, compared across the portfolio.

  • Occupancy and traffic by building, against last year
  • Parking and amenity use behind leasing and capital plans
  • Evidence for lenders, investors and tenants
Example

Portfolio occupancy, Tuesday to Thursday peak

Building A leads, Building C trails its submarket

Garage level 3 unused before 11 am, all quarter

Managers · Operate

How each building ran this week, and what to adjust.

  • Peak hours by entrance, floor and amenity
  • Loading dock and garage use against capacity
  • After-hours activity to review
Example

Lobby peak moved from 8:45 to 9:30

Dock bay 2 blocked 3 hours on Wednesday

Two after-hours entries at the service door

Frontline · Act

What needs attention in the building right now.

  • A loading zone blocked past its limit
  • A garage level full, with where to send drivers
  • An entrance busy enough to open a second lane
Example

Loading zone B: blocked 25 min

Garage level 1 full · level 3 has space

Lobby turnstiles: queue building

Ask

Questions answered from your cameras.

Ask VideoBI in plain language. It investigates across every site and answers with the numbers and the evidence behind them.

  • “Which of our buildings are used least on Mondays and Fridays, and by how much?”
  • “Is the new amenity floor used enough to justify its space?”
  • “How much of the garage could we sell as monthly permits?”
  • “Which buildings need a dock master, and when?”
Which of our buildings are used least on Mondays and Fridays, and by how much?

Ask answers from your own sites' readings: the measured numbers, the sites and hours behind them, and what the cameras can't see.

Early access: Ask is set up with your first sites. How Ask works →

The return

What the system saves, and the decisions it informs.

Recoverable dollars are counted week by week and pay for the system. Decisions about capital, leases and operating models made with the same evidence affect results for years.

The arithmetic

What you price with your own numbers

Parking
unused stalls by hour × your transient or permit rate
Operations
cleaning and security hours moved to measured use × your hourly cost
Space
amenity or common floors used below a threshold × rent per square foot

Early access: we set up each measure with you, on your buildings and your rates.

The decisions

What the evidence changes

  • Renew, reposition or sell an assetBased on the measured use of every building.
  • Invest in amenitiesBuild what tenants use and repurpose the rest.
  • Plan garage and dock capitalSized from measured peaks.
  • Set operating budgetsCleaning, security and energy scheduled to how the building is used.

Talk to us about early access for your portfolio.