Herman Miller, the furniture brand behind iconic designs like the Aeron chair, has teamed up with designer Yves Béhar for a new suite of smart office furniture launching today at NeoCon in Chicago. Named Live OS (yawn), the system uses sensors that can come preinstalled with Herman Miller desks, or retrofitted to any existing work surface. The sensors collect on-the-fly anonymized data which is then accessed through a dashboard, giving companies insight into how spaces are being utilized.
On fixed-height desks, Live OS only tracks when people are present. When used with Herman Miller’s sit-to-stand desks, it acts more like a furniture Fitbit. Here, through an app, people set preferences for things like desk height, which can then be...
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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/12/15783038/herman-miller-live-os-office-furniture
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/herman-miller-debuts-new-smart-office.html
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