Many people are working from home. Less people at the office, opens up an opportunity for employers to optimize the workplace. To create an efficient and optimized work environment, it’s important to gain knowledge of how the space is used. As a facility manager, you need insights in occupancy rates and peaks. With these understandings, you can let go of the traditional setting where everyone has their own desk. Shared desks offer your employees a desk when needed, and it makes efficient use of the space you have. The more efficient you make use of the space, the lower your costs will be. With a hot desking or desk hoteling concept you create a new optimized environment.

Cost efficiency is not the only advantage. Your employee engagement increases, their productivity grows, and collaboration between teams gets a boost. A different environment each time prevents workers from falling into routines, which stimulates their creativity along the way. PADS4 desk management helps you as head of the facility department oversee all desks in your workplace. Whether you choose a reservation-based concept where employees choose and book their workspace for any day before coming to the office, or you decide on a concept where all desks are free to use when people need it, desk management offers you insights in the usage of your workplace.

Leverage digital wayfinding to improve customer service, visitor satisfaction, and timely arrival.  From hospitals to government buildings to outdoor events and venues, getting from one place to another is crucial to the visitor experience. With PADS4 to power your wayfinding digital signage, you can connect existing data sources, update wayfinding maps in real-time, support touch and interactive maps or menus, and offer a range of wayfinding services. Smart Signage for Wayfinding, powered by PADS4, offers truly smart wayfinding tools. Strategically placed digital wayfinding displays lead 

visitors through buildings. Smart sensors collect data relating to foot-traffic, congestion, route changes, destination changes, or issues. With automation and real-time updates, you can update routes after destination changes, based on congestion and speed of walking, weather, or even outages like broken escalators. PADS4 makes it easy to stay in control of your wayfinding digital signage displays. No matter how large your network, PADS4 updates your displays in seconds, automates updates using smart tools, and offers complete scheduling to ensure directions are always up-to-date. 

PADS4 is the data-driven approach to digital menu boards that will change the way you create menus in your restaurant or corporate canteen. Our software allows facility management to develop smart and dynamic menu boards, programmed to respond to real-time events like time of day. Drive sales by attracting more customers, or inform your employees, all with attractive content. Once setup, PADS4 automatically updates your menu reflecting the weather, rush hour in your office or even product availability. Integrate various sensors and data to update menus based on crowd, wait-times, or link menus to events or guests – promoting relevant offers has never been easier.

Our software manages everything in your smart building. From displays at workspaces that notify employees of availability in the cafeteria, or smart schedules that cycle through breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus in restaurants. Our Viewer Variables feature saves reproduction costs, making it possible to show content based on placement, without having to change the presentation. PADS4 even allows you to update your entire network of digital menu boards from one central location, so those responsible update pricing and menu items in minutes, add branding for special events, and completely change layouts, whether it’s an outdoor billboard or an inside self-service kiosk.

PADS4 offers all the tools you need to set-up, manage, and share content effectively across your display network. Our range of digital signage solutions support you in building employee engagement, communicating ideas, and pushing data across your organization to boost safety. It offers you as a facility manager an internal communication solution that integrates all your data sources to schedule and assign presentations and displays with live data streams. It’s even possible to connect big data and show inspiring and helpful information in real-time. With many people working from home, we understand you’re looking for ways to stay in touch. Our Desktop Communication keeps you connected, with screen to screen communication for individual or broadcasted messages on screensavers and in pop-ups.

Real-time data ensures your signage is always relevant, no matter who is using the room. Maybe you want to display work instruction videos, or you want to direct visitors and employees to the correct meeting rooms. Whether you want to show the sales statistics of this month, or inspire employees with real-time stock and profit information, PADS4 makes it all possible. PADS4 digital signage helps you take control of your internal communication. Create custom, location-based messages and manage all your display communication from one central location. Whether you supervise one small building, or many offices around the world, PADS4 boosts your communication, brand, and inspirational content on screens, including kiosks, video walls, desktops and meeting room displays.

Extraordinary times ask for extraordinary measures, and eventually give way to a new normal. The newfound alertness against contagion during this pandemic may signal the end of hugs and handshakes. New technologies such as temperature screening become mandatory, and face masks, gloves and hand sanitizers are now commonplace. Hygiene and sanitizations are no more an option but a mandate. More things are accomplished online than ever imagined, and many people work from home. Companies operate on reduced attendance and encourage online alternatives. Even from a distance, the well-being of employees is more than ever a priority. Companies want to get back in business safely as soon as possible. Their facility managers need to find a way to adapt and create a trustworthy environment where their employees feel comfortable.  

How are you dealing with social distancing, occupancy, capacity restrictions, and ensuring the well-being of employees? As a company, you need to inform, prevent, detect, and react instantly, all according to changing regulations and protocols. Only when we unite and take our responsibility to look out for each other we can return to an environment that is as safe as possible. PADS4 Social Safety Signage gives you the digital means to create that safe environment and improve the well-being of your people. With PADS4, you as a facility manager establish a place that is safer and trusted once this pandemic ends. Digital signage helps you inform your employees and visitors about the measurements you take. It contributes to the prevention of more infections. Digital signage helps you detect breaches in your workplace, and react to breaches efficiently via your digital signage network.

Engaged employees on average bring a 20 – 25% boost in productivity, and internal communication please an important part in making your staff feel comfortable. However, office communication also forms a key issue for organizations and agencies that want work more efficient. Wouldn’t it be convenient if you could send scheduled or instant updates, inspire employees with key data, newsletters, and presentations, communicate with remote network branches, or have a critical system status delivered to a select group of people? With PADS4 Desktop Communication you connect with everyone, select groups or even individuals. Inform your employees with a screensaver, or send your staff active messages with automatic pop-up desktop alerts.

PADS4 Desktop Communication extends your internal communication network by connecting all desktops and laptops in your network with PADS4 Messenger and PADS4 Desktop Viewer. These tools give you the possibility to instantly correspond with anyone in your workplace. Let urgent messages appear immediately with the alert function, and easily track your communication with read receipts. Whether you want to notify one single person, or thousands worldwide, PADS4 Messenger shares your message in real-time. The PADS4 Desktop Viewer allows you to set a screensaver to play presentations automatically or manually. No matter what you choose, with PADS4 you are in full control of your workplace communication.

Get in CTRL of transit signage with PADS4. With one platform to power all your information screens (FIDS, PIDS, employment rosters), interactive kiosks, and advertising screens, PADS4 makes it easy to create, share, and update information across your entire signage network. Plus, with data integration from hundreds of sources, you can use SAP, Opera, SharePoint, etc. to integrate real time data like the weather, passenger and travel information, schedules and delays, gate times, booking information, social media, and infotainment. Engage visitors, offer seamless wayfinding, and reduce the burden on customer service

with interactive kiosks, complete with conditional maps for dynamic guidance and wayfinding. With PADS4, you’re able to update and inform travelers of changes in real time. No matter how you move travelers, PADS4 helps you provide an enhanced experience with dynamic wayfinding, route, and passenger information. Whether you’re integrating digital kiosks or advertising, PADS4 adds value for travelers. From dynamic guidance with real-time updates and reroutes including gate and bus changes to product information, advertising, and infotainment, PADS4 helps you do more with transportation signage.