Roamer X is our next-generation mobile app, designed to enhance engagement, boost productivity, and provide seamless access to intelligent building services. Currently in its early release phase, the app will continue to evolve with regular updates, introducing even more features and improvements based on user feedback. With this first release, the following features are now available.
Roamer X will work against 2024.02 of the IBSS platform. However, full support for more complete functionality is only available when used with 2024.03 version of the IBSS platform.
Currently available
- Upon login, users have to accept Privacy Policy and are offered to go through onboarding and set up their user preferences.
- Left-side main men—u allows access to:
- Building selector
- Security Pass (with the integrated HID technology)
- User Preferences settings with the following options available:
- Calendar integration
- Search Layout
- Location sharing
- Notifications
- Setup PIN
- Security Passes
- Help
- Logging
- Identity provider selection
- Home page has a building image and quick search Building KPI tiles linked to:
- Preconfigured space types.
- Building map (with filter options). Map is displayed zoomed out with tabs to switch between floors.
- Your bookings (with the check-in option) and the unclickable bookings where you are an attendee.
- Latest announcements (system notifications and building announcements). You can access notifications by tapping the bell icon in the top right corner of your screen, too.
- Your amenities.
- Your colleagues. Colleagues bookings are displayed in the search as expected. Bookings are displayed for all colleagues selected on the date that is selected.
- Tasks tab has been enabled for users with corresponding permissions. They can create, edit, delete tasks, change tasks status.
- Search tab enables search by space type, work type, equipment, and amenities as well as switching to the FAVOURITES tab to search for spaces or colleagues that were previously marked as favourite.
Also, you can search for spaces that are available right now. Use the ASAP toggle for this. - Search results are filtered according to what is allowed by the booking policy.
- Selecting a space from any search results opens the space details page with:
- Space name
- Building name where the space is located
- Floor
- Zone
- Capacity
- Linked spaces and furniture layouts options (images are currently missing on space cards).
- Space Guides as available.
- Air quality, temperature, and noise level are dynamically reflected on space cards where the data is collected.
- Functionality to book a space from search results or from map view for self or for someone else has been added too.
- Roamer X supports making bookings in other time zones when there are multiple buildings in different time zones in the organisation.
- Adding service requests from the space page and viewing existing ones is made available.
- Booking owner or host can be changed for the existing booking.
- Use can check in to existing bookings, edit, or cancel them. Cancelling a booking is available event when the space is available for check-in.
- Resources can be added to the booking as available.
- Users can add a catering order to a booking and edit it.
- Added an option to extend a booking by 15 or 30 minutes when there's less than 30 minutes left and if the space is available.
- Space control pages to handle room temperature, lighting, and blind, curtains, and windows.
- Visitors tab lists your visitors (with those visitors at the top of the list who are due to arrive next) and allows adding ad-hoc visitors. Visitor data is shown with full name, company, date, time, and booking name and space where applicable.
- You can add a visitor to the booking.
- Users can search for available lockers, claim them, and release. Lockers tab under Bookings shows lockers claimed by the user.
What's new
- Optional Booking Attendance field helps indicate the number of attendees expected.
- Integrated with HID SDK. Security Passes are stored under Main menu > User Preferences in Roamer X.
- Integrated with Salto JustIn SDK.
- Integrated with Signify Indoor positioning SDK.
Upcoming features
- Intune MAM support and support for app protection policies
- Booking as a Delegate for a Primary
- Recurrent multiple bookings
- Ability to order catering along with space booking
- Cost codes functionality for both predefined or freeform cost codes
- Adding an ad-hoc visitor
- Operational updates:
- Admin users to approve or deny visitors in Roamer X
- Manage and assign service tasks
- Language support