Lambent develops smart space planning and occupancy analytics software for organizations that need a clearer view of how buildings, floors, classrooms, offices, and shared spaces are actually used. Its core offering, the Lambent Spaces Platform, uses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and other occupancy data sources to surface anonymous utilization insights without requiring broad new hardware deployments.
Lambent positions its software around strategic real estate and facilities decisions rather than simple people counting. The platform combines machine learning, occupancy estimates, contextual facilities and scheduling data, dashboards, KPI tracking, and reporting so teams can support planning, maintenance, energy efficiency, and portfolio optimization across campuses and large real estate footprints.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Lambent delivers a SaaS occupancy analytics platform with an optional hybrid component for organizations that need to connect on-premises data sources. Its software ingests data through vendor-approved APIs, anonymizes sensitive wireless data at the point of integration, applies proprietary machine learning models, and returns occupancy, utilization, cost, and reporting outputs through the application interface and APIs.
Lambent supports integrations with major Wi-Fi environments and complementary planning systems. Verified references include HPE Aruba, Cisco, Juniper Mist, CommScope, and Extreme Networks on the wireless side, along with scheduling and booking inputs such as Adastra and room booking technology. Lambent also supports downstream use of its data in IWMS, building management, HVAC control, business intelligence, and related workplace systems through embedded and API-based access.
Products and Services
- Lambent Spaces Platform: Lambent’s flagship SaaS platform for occupancy analytics and space optimization. It uses existing Wi-Fi and occupancy sensor inputs to deliver anonymous occupancy estimates, utilization analytics, dashboards, KPI views, and targeted reports for planning, operations, and real estate decisions.
- Retrozone: A zone-level analytics capability that reprocesses existing floor-level data after deployment so customers can create targeted zones, investigate utilization patterns in greater detail, and support use cases such as reserved-versus-occupied reporting, swing-space planning, restacks, and energy optimization.
- Lambent Spaces Embedded: An API-based offering for technology partners that need building- and floor-level occupancy analytics inside their own systems. Lambent positions it for IWMS, HVAC and building management, lease management, industrial cleaning, and system integrator use cases.
- Lambent API: A RESTful JSON API that provides occupancy and spatial information for Lambent-powered spaces, including support for working with regions, buildings, levels, zones, and analytical occupancy endpoints.
Target Customers
Lambent primarily serves corporate real estate, facilities, and space planning teams that manage large, complex portfolios and need continuous utilization data to guide restacks, leasing decisions, building operations, and workplace redesign. Its messaging emphasizes corporate campuses and enterprise portfolios where broad Wi-Fi coverage can deliver faster deployment and lower CapEx than sensor-heavy alternatives.
Lambent also targets higher education institutions, where campus planners, facilities teams, and administrators use occupancy analytics to validate classroom and meeting room usage, compare planned versus actual utilization, and support future capital and space allocation decisions. In addition, Lambent addresses technology partners such as system integrators, IWMS vendors, HVAC and building management providers, consultants, and related workplace technology firms that want embedded occupancy data inside their own applications and services.
Key People
- Richard Scannell: Chief Executive Officer
- Julie Johnson Roberts: Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
- Josh Hartley: VP of Engineering
- Michael Grant: General Manager – EMEA
- Beth Quenzel-Shirman: Senior Director of Accounting and HR
- Kate Coble: Senior Director of Marketing
- Molly Carney: Senior Director of Customer Success
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Employees: 11-50 employees
- Annual Revenue: $10M-$25M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
