University space, measured Facilities, planning, safety and the student app
Simulated data on an invented campus. signals@yyzdata.com
Signalsby YYZdata
Most campuses manage to 70% room utilization. Almost none can tell you what they actually get.
A new building is the largest decision a campus makes, and it gets made without an hourly count of the buildings already standing. Signals produces that count from the cameras and models the campus already owns, then runs the place on the same numbers.
70%
the room utilization most institutions target. Few can measure, hour by hour, what they actually get.
SmithGroup, 2026.
$156
of deferred capital renewal carried per square foot of campus, up 8% in a single year.
Gordian, State of Facilities in Higher Education, 2026.
73.5%
of the spending needed just to stop that backlog growing is what actually gets spent.
Gordian, 2026.
95 to 125%
dining peak occupancy by 2023, up from 75 to 95%. Demand moved; the floor plan did not.
Buro Happold, across 38 institutions.
What students are actually asking
Is there anywhere to lock my bike, or am I circling the quad again?How long is the line at the dining hall right now?Is the path back to my dorm lit tonight?
None of it needs a new sensor. The same counts answer the registrar and the student.
Grand Designs University is an invented campus and every figure inside the demo is simulated. The four figures above are real and sourced. Camera frames are AI-generated; the pixelation you can flip on the big view is the routine that runs on a live box.
Signalsby YYZdata
DEMO · SIMULATED
Grand Designs University · sixteen buildings · Tuesday mid-morning · last night packaged, today liveEvery room, rack and walkway on campus, counted by the hour.Signals reads the cameras and building models the campus already owns. One box on site, nothing new on the walls, and a database the college keeps. This is the facilities board; the tabs above are the same numbers as planning, campus safety and the student see them.
Every tile opens the story behind its number. Tap one.
Recommended actions · right now
The cameras, and the blur
● live
Privacy blurOff · raw view. Flip it
and watch the on-box pixelation sweep the frame, live.
Live feed
The campus right now
This morning's readiness card
Four things worth a person's attention today, each with the evidence attached. Tap a row.
Where the counting gets its coordinates
Every number on this screen resolves to a row in one zone table. The table comes from the campus model. The cameras only supply what is in each zone right now.
Read from the modelRebuilt from geometrySet once in the field
Gap
Delivered models often carry no rooms
Geometry complete, no space objects, so nothing downstream can count. An automated pass rebuilds the zones from the wall geometry and names them.
Coverage
11 of 14 zones already seen
Two partial, one blind. Solved against the geometry, so the gap comes back with coordinates rather than a vendor's guess.
What the campus itself is saying
Path
The lit path is not the walked path
Two thirds of the late walk from the library cuts the grass line east of the quad rather than taking the lit walkway.
Rooms
Nine rooms nobody enters
Scheduled, lit and conditioned all term, never occupied. All nine sit off the corridor the wayfinding does not name.
Door
One closer is doing all the propping
Science corridor east accounts for three of this week's four held doors. The door is the problem, not the people.
Questions a campus has never been able to ask, because until the zones existed there was nothing to ask them of.
Ask Signals
Available right now
The same zone table, read the other way round. Capacity from the model, count from the cameras.
0 free
Library South bike rack
Full since 9:20, eleventh straight weekday.
31 free
Structure B bike rack
At 22% and it has never filled this term. Four minutes away.
18 free
Sawyer level 4 seats
The quiet floor. Science atrium has 40 open and talking is allowed there.
6 min
Mann Commons line
Doubles at 11:50 with the timetable.
A student asks this forty times a week and no campus can answer it. Ten weeks of the same counts is also the capital argument.
The posture, verifiable
What is connected
Grand Designs University is an invented campus and every figure on this page is simulated. Camera frames are AI-generated; the blur switch is the appliance's real routine. Signals supports a safety team's awareness; it is not a life-safety system of record. Nothing face-derived is computed anywhere in the pipeline: no facial recognition, no face templates, no age or gender inference.
Planning is where this stops being a security product. The zone table is the asset; safety, space, energy and the student app are four things you can do with it. Tap a card for what sits behind it.
T
Terry Brown
Planning, real estate and facilities
Space planning
The officer is the second customer. A handover that wrote itself, the two things that need a person this hour, and evidence that packages itself.
O
Officer Peart
Campus safety · day shift
On duty
The first customer is the student, and friction and safety are the first questions on every campus tour. The app runs on the same counts the operations board watches, which is the only reason it can be honest.
G
Grand Designs University
Campus app
Signed in
Simulated campus data · same platform running today in live venue deployments
