This platform provides education institutions with tools to design and manage their physical spaces, including storing space parameters, assigning permissions, and optimizing seat usage. By accessing dashboards with space utilization data, institutions can make informed decisions about resource allocation and space design.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Designing effective education spaces requires careful consideration of factors like readability, sightlines, and ergonomics, but institutions often lack integrated tools to manage these complex interactions. This can lead to suboptimal learning environments and expensive redesigns during or after the building process. Furthermore, managing AV-IT equipment, furniture, and space parameters across multiple rooms is often a fragmented and inefficient process.
Solution
TUDesc provides an interactive cloud tool that enables education institutions to design, manage, and optimize their physical spaces. The platform allows users to store space parameters, including AV-IT device and furniture properties, and generate equipment lifecycles. TUDesc visualizes readability and sightlines, making visual acuity clear and tangible within education spaces. The tool combines related interactions in a user-friendly interface, helping institutions determine the optimal ergonomic situation for learning environments.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes universities, educational institutions, AV-IT managers, facility managers, and space planners responsible for designing and managing education spaces.
Features
- Interactive configurator to determine readability and ergonomics by simulating furniture and equipment placement
- Visualization of sightlines and visual acuity within education spaces
- Management of AV-IT device and furniture properties, including carbon footprint tracking
- Generation of AV equipment lifecycles and asset values
- KPI dashboards for aggregated data on readability, sightlines, installed base, and carbon footprint
- Role-based access control for managing permissions related to AV, equipment, IT, facilities, furniture, and space conditions
- ESViewer module for creating an online catalog of education spaces with space details
- Integration with Google Kubernetes Engine for a containerized, always-on application