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The 2025 Enterprise Occupancy Tracking Report 14 Copyright © 2025 Tango. All rights reserved. 02 No firms exclusively used sensors to track occupancy While 29% of respondents were tracking occupancy with sensors, all of them were doing so in conjunction with another solution like office reservation software, badge scan data, or both. Space utilization sensors are a more advanced occupancy tracking solution, and given the expense to implement and maintain them, they're more likely to be used by organizations that are already pretty mature in their understanding and application of occupancy analytics. If a company isn't tracking occupancy but recognizes the value it could provide, it vvvvv makes sense that they would start with a low-cost solution that gets them a usable amount of data (like badge scanning or reservation data), and then consider a larger investment based on how well it's working and what they still need. Additionally, badge scanning and reservation systems obviously serve other purposes beyond occupancy tracking. Badge scanning systems help keep buildings secure and limit unauthorized access. And reservation systems help coordinate the use of shared resources. Occupancy sensors are primarily an investment in optimization. 03 Just 4% of firms leveraged a network-tracking solution Only 4% of respondents have adopted sensorless network-tracking solutions like Tango Occupancy. These solutions provide most of the occupancy data you'd get from IoT sensors at a fraction of the cost. Using your existing network infrastructure, they track WiFi and ethernet connections to your network to estimate the location of building occupants. Ethernet connections obviously have specific fixed locations, and WiFi signal strength can be used to roughly triangulate a device's position. While simple and effective—they don't require specialized hardware or ongoing maintenance—sensorless occupancy monitoring systems are lesser known vvvvvvv solutions that haven't received as much attention as space utilization sensors. Just one enterprise represented in the survey was using a WiFi/Ethernet-monitoring system, and that was alongside sensors, badge scans, reservation data, and BMS software. If the other respondents were all aware of this low- cost solution, would 37.5% of them have still cited cost as the reason for not having full visibility into their portfolio? For the majority of firms that are still just using badge data and/or reservation data, sensorless occupancy tracking systems represent a serious opportunity to improve visibility with a much smaller investment than installing sensors.

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