Cisco Spaces
Drive business outcomes with data from your network
Today's access network has potential to help drive business outcomes. Cisco Spaces (formerly Cisco DNA Spaces) provides a vital link between the data available in your physical space and the insights that can help you create a workplace that is safe, smart, and seamless.
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Features and Benefits
Every laptop, phone, camera, and IoT device that connects to your network provides data and insights that can help you achieve better outcomes by making your business safer, your building smarter, and your wireless connectivity more seamless.
Safe
Support a safe and intelligent workspace by monitoring and sharing occupancy levels in real time with staff and visitors.
Smart
Integrate multivendor devices and applications for smart, sustainable, and efficient operations.
Connected
Seamlessly and securely connect users to your network and deliver personalized digital experiences.
Cisco Spaces integrations with Cisco platforms
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points
Support more devices and high-density environments with our Wi-Fi 7 access points.
CCisco Catalyst 9000 Switches
Host Cisco Spaces on Catalyst 9300 Series and Catalyst 9400 Series Switches to manage wired IoT devices and provide complete network visibility.
Cisco Meraki Access Points
Power new and improved experiences with Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi 7-certified technology.
Cisco Spaces at work across industries
Explore key use cases in education, healthcare, and more.
Education
Cisco Spaces is part of Cisco’s broad portfolio of networking, security, cloud, and collaboration offerings that deliver a complete education solution that securely connects students, faculty, and administrators—no matter where they are—so learning never stops.
Cisco Spaces leverages existing wireless and switching infrastructure to harness the behavioral data of people and things for insights that help educational institutions transform the campus environment to deliver new models of teaching and student engagement. It offers location-based solutions that are simple to use, work together seamlessly, and help make operations more efficient.
Benefits
Safe
Enable a safe workplace with indoor location services that provide meaningful, real-time data about who is on your campus and where they go.
Smart
IoT services for smart buildings let your switches and access points act as a unifying layer between different wired and wireless IoT solutions, helping you deliver on a multitude of use cases to optimize your services and operations.
Seamless
Offer seamless wireless access with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device onboarding that simplifies connections and opens new opportunities for engagement and revenue.
Use Cases
Build a flexible campus
Enable a smart and connected campus that empowers students, faculty, and staff with seamless mobile and location services, and gain behavioral insights that help you optimize the campus experience.
- Captive portals
- Contextual notifications
- OpenRoaming
- Campus app integration
- IoT services
- Wayfinding
- Room availability
Streamline administration
Improve operations and data-based decisions using location analytics for behavior and space utilization insights, and by using IoT services to centralize management of multiple-vendor IoT device solutions.
- Automated attendance tracking
- Behavioral insights
- Room availability and utilization
- IoT services
Facilitate safety and security
Help ensure a safe and healthy return to campus for students, faculty, and staff with data and applications that let you monitor the density in your buildings and effectively communicate safety information via signage, wireless portals, and alerts.
- Density monitoring
- Occupancy threshold alerts
- Environmental monitoring
- Contextual notifications
Hospitality
In the hospitality industry, providing safe and satisfying experiences for customers and employees is critical to maintaining good brand reputation and customer confidence. Hotels, casinos, and various venues can leverage indoor location services to ensure that they are prioritizing the safety and well-being of everyone in their spaces.
Cisco Spaces leverages existing wireless and switching infrastructure to harness the behavioral data of people and things for insights that help the hospitality industry deliver unique experiences and set the groundwork for success amidst evolving needs.
Benefits
Safe
Enable a safe workplace with indoor location services that provide meaningful, real-time data about who is in your venue and where they go.
Smart
IoT services for smart buildings let your switches and access points act as a unifying layer between different wired and wireless IoT solutions, giving you more options and greater flexibility than stand-alone solutions.
Seamless
Offer seamless wireless access with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device onboarding that simplifies connections and opens new opportunities for engagement and revenue.
Use Cases
Safety and security
Help ensure a safe and healthy space for guests and staff with applications to monitor the density in your buildings and effectively communicate safety information via signage, wireless portals, and alerts.
- Density monitoring
- Occupancy threshold alerts
- Contextual notifications
Seamless mobile experience
Make wireless onboarding seamless and even invisible to your guests so you can offer personalized digital experiences that enhance your brand.
- OpenRoaming
- Personalized captive portals
- Loyalty app integration
- Wayfinding
Smart building
Automate and optimize facilities with IoT services to centralize management of multiple-vendor IoT device solutions.
- IoT services
- IoT Device Marketplace
- Footfall and dwell-time analytics
Workspaces
With Cisco, businesses can transform the workplace experience by unlocking the power of data and embracing a cloud-based future made possible by a proven network infrastructure. The result is an engaged and empowered workforce and a physical environment that surpasses user expectations.
Cisco Spaces provides a vital link between the data available in your physical space and the insights that data provides. This lets businesses create a trusted workplace with solutions that help manage density and proximity. Businesses can also use the platform to communicate with employees about the current environment and exposure incidents and to help them find their way through the building. These engagements help strengthen a sense of personal safety and improve workplace experience and productivity.
Benefits
Safe
Enable a safe workplace with indoor location services that provide meaningful, real-time data about who is in your workplace and where they go.
Smart
IoT services for smart buildings let your switches and access points act as a unifying layer between different wired and wireless IoT solutions, giving you more options and greater flexibility than stand-alone solutions.
Seamless
Offer seamless wireless access with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device onboarding that simplifies connections and opens new opportunities for engagement and revenue.
Use Cases
Safe space utilization
Support a safe workplace with social density automation and intelligent touchless experiences.
- Right Now app on Cisco Spaces and Webex devices
- Ability to create density thresholds and monitor capacity
- Automated real-time notifications
Improved operational efficiencies
Improve efficiencies and employee safety by knowing where equipment is located throughout the workspace with critical asset tracking.
- Cisco Spaces asset tags
- Real-time wireless location data
- Trigger notifications if an asset is in the wrong place
Secure and seamless mobility
Provide a frictionless mobile experience to engage visitors and monetize Wi-Fi.
- OpenRoaming
- Captive portals
- Software development kit for loyalty app integration
Healthcare
Cisco Spaces is an integral part of Cisco’s comprehensive portfolio of products, services, and solutions that securely connect and enable healthcare organizations to power inclusive care, no matter what is happening in the world and without compromising security.
With Cisco Spaces, you can leverage your existing access network to glean insights into the location of users, connected medical equipment, and IoT devices, allowing you to deliver data-driven care and improved clinician workflow. With our rich ecosystem of partner apps and devices, you can transform your facilities to offer patients an enhanced experience and provide clinicians and staff instant access to records and equipment.
Benefits
Safe
Enable a safe workplace with indoor location services that provide meaningful, real-time data about who is in your workplace and where they go.
Smart
IoT services for smart buildings let your switches and access points act as a unifying layer between different wired and wireless IoT solutions. That way, you can deliver on a multitude of use cases and optimize your services and operations.
Seamless
Offer seamless wireless access with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device onboarding that simplifies connections and opens new opportunities for engagement and revenue.
Use Cases
Smart hospitals
Securely connect clinical, operational, and business systems, applications, users, and data across physical healthcare facilities for a more automated and sustainable experience.
- Patient tracking
- Behavioral insights
- Room availability and utilization
- IoT services
Location services for clinical environments
Leverage location data to enable clinical operational efficiency, respond to staff duress, improve patient throughput capabilities, and monitor asset utilization.
- Density monitoring
- Occupancy threshold alerts
- Environmental monitoring
- Asset tracking
Mobile experiences and wayfinding
Make it easier for patients to use their own devices to find what they need, get where they’re going, and check in easily with wayfinding and digital intake.
- Captive portals
- OpenRoaming
- Wayfinding
- Room availability
Retail
Cisco Spaces is an integral part of Cisco’s comprehensive portfolio of products, services, and solutions that securely connect and enable retailers to revolutionize customer shopping experiences.
Cisco Spaces leverages existing wireless and switching infrastructure to harness the behavioral data of people and things for insights that help retailers improve better decision making, enhance customer engagement, and encourage innovation.
With our rich ecosystem of partner apps and devices, you can delight customers by providing them convenient access to the things they are looking for, through indoor wayfinding and contextual in-store experiences.
Benefits
Safe
Enable a safe workplace with indoor location services that provide meaningful, real-time data about who is in your workplace and where they go.
Smart
IoT services for smart buildings let your switches and access points act as a unifying layer between different wired and wireless IoT solutions, giving you more options and greater flexibility.
Seamless
Offer seamless wireless access with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device onboarding that simplifies connections and opens new opportunities for engagement and revenue.
Use Cases
Wayfinding
- Get directions to a specific, room, area, zone, or destination without the hassle of getting lost
- Help users navigate between locations within large buildings
Personalized experiences
- Trigger notifications contextually based on presence at any of your buildings
- Enable dynamic engagements powered by a rules engine based on persona and location behavior
- Deliver differentiated experiences with app notifications and captive portals
Seamless onboarding
- Seamlessly and securely onboard customers and employees to Wi-Fi
- Improve indoor coverage and monetize the Wi-Fi
Space occupancy
- Monitor occupancy in real time, configure density triggers, and receive notifications when a density threshold is met
- Right-size your real estate portfolio by understanding space utilization
Footfall analytics
- Visualize footfall and presence information from Cisco Meraki Vision cameras
- See how many people have entered a location, analyze trends, and compare with historical averages
Operational efficiency
- Locate and track shopping carts, trolleys, and other high-value assets
- Enable environmental monitoring
Manufacturing
The pace of transitions in manufacturing has accelerated. With the right network infrastructure in place, you can unleash new value from asset data down to the machine level. You can empower your workforce with connectivity and collaboration tools to make your business more resilient. And you can improve operational efficiency with real-time asset visibility.
Cisco Spaces provides a vital link between the data available about the people and things connected to your network and the insights that data provides. Its open and flexible platform can connect IoT end devices from many different vendors, so you can form a consolidated picture across different systems and arrive at truly deep insights to improve your business success.
Benefits
Safe
Enable a safe workplace with indoor location services that provide meaningful, real-time data about who is in your workplace and where they go.
Smart
IoT services for smart buildings let your switches and access points act as a unifying layer between different wired and wireless IoT solutions, helping you deliver on a multitude of use cases to optimize your services and operations.
Seamless
Offer seamless wireless access with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device onboarding that simplifies connections and opens new opportunities for engagement and revenue.
Use Cases
Workforce continuity
Support a safe workplace with social density automation and intelligent touchless experiences.
- Right Now app on Cisco Spaces and Webex devices
- Ability to create density thresholds and monitor capacity
- Automated real-time notifications
Worker mobility
Seamless and secure wireless onboarding enables worker mobility and streamlines IoT device deployment.
- OpenRoaming
- Contextual notifications
- Room availability
Asset visibility and control
Leverage IoT and wireless connections to track critical assets and monitor environmental conditions in real time.
- Environmental monitoring
- Asset tracking
- IoT services