The Secret Life of Meeting Rooms

About this session

IoT & Hardware session with Yavor Chernaev, 20 min — recorded at Coworking Tech Week 2026.

In this session, Yavor Chernaev, Co-Founder of Linxiv, explores what meeting room occupancy can reveal about how coworking spaces are actually used. Using real booking and occupancy examples, he shows how operators can spot ghost bookings, unbooked room usage, meeting overruns, and missed revenue opportunities that are often invisible in the calendar alone. The discussion also covers Occupal, Linxiv’s plug-and-play occupancy device, and how coworking teams can use better room data to improve availability, reduce manual checks, and make smarter decisions about meeting rooms, phone booths, and private spaces.

How a small hardware device can inform you about the way your meeting rooms are used and misused. Linxiv devices integrate with IWMS and coworking management platforms through API, feeding live data directly into the tools operators already rely on. The result is better utilisation statistics, smarter space decisions and a frictionless experience for members who never need to think about the technology at all.