Meet Locker AI: From locker data to smarter workplace decisions
Locker AI turns smart locker data into practical insights, helping teams understand and plan their workplace while maximising ROI
A locker can be occupied for months without being used. One floor can be running out of available lockers while another has plenty of spare capacity. And finding out why often means digging through reports, comparing numbers and checking individual lockers.
But what if smart locker data could tell you more? Imagine taking that understanding further, revealing patterns in how people use the workplace and where everyday operations could work better. Now imagine getting those insights simply by asking a question, just as you would ask a colleague over coffee.
Meet Locker AI, powered by Blocks, your new AI assistant for smarter workplace storage management.
Locker AI helps you understand what's happening across your building or within a specific locker bank, find opportunities you might otherwise miss and quickly decide what to do next. And it doesn't stop at providing answers. Locker AI suggests practical next steps and helps you take action, from identifying lockers worth reviewing to guiding you directly to the settings you need.
What can Locker AI help you with?
With Locker AI, workplace and facility managers can focus on five key areas:
1. Optimising space and maximising return on investment – Understand how efficiently your lockers are actually being used, identify hidden opportunities and make better use of your workplace space.
2. Maximising the value of existing infrastructure – Make the most of your existing lockers by supporting multiple use cases, from employee storage to visitor lockers, parcel deliveries and internal handovers.
3. Improving availability and employee experience – Find out where lockers are needed most, spot locations with limited availability and ensure employees have storage where and when they need it.
4. Optimising locker policies – Identify lockers that are assigned but rarely used and see where changes to usage policies could improve availability.
5. Planning your future workplace with better data – Use actual locker usage and demand trends to make smarter decisions about future capacity, workplace layouts and new office locations.
“For years, smart lockers have been generating incredibly valuable data about how people use their workplace. But making sense of that data has often required time and manual analysis. With Locker AI, you can simply ask a question and get an answer that helps you make better decisions. Whether that's improving locker availability, adjusting usage policies or planning your next workplace, the insights are finally much easier to access and act on.”
— Bartolomej Holubar, Co-founder and CEO of Blocks
Occupied doesn't always mean actively used
Looking at a practical example – two lockers can both be occupied, but tell very different stories. One may have been opened just once in 45 days, while another was opened 22 times in the same period.
Looking at occupancy alone won't show you that difference. Locker AI helps you look deeper into how your storage is actually being used.
Understanding these patterns helps workplace teams spot unused opportunities, make better use of locker capacity and improve how storage works for employees – on both micro and macro levels.
Start with the whole building
Locker AI’s primary view is the building level. Instead of navigating reports or manually comparing figures across floors, facility managers can ask about locker usage across the entire site to spot patterns, compare locations and understand how well capacity matches demand.
For example:
• How many lockers are occupied but rarely used?
• Which floors need more lockers and which have too many?
• We're short on lockers on the 3rd floor. Can you find which ones are taken but barely used?
• Do we have enough lockers on our busiest office days?
• Are we using our locker capacity efficiently across personal storage, parcel deliveries and handovers?
• We need 10 lockers for IT equipment distribution. Can you find some that aren't being used much, located near the IT team?
• What does our locker usage data tell us about how people use our workplace?
• Where is locker demand growing and where should we plan for more capacity?
The answers help workplace teams spot problems they might otherwise miss, understand their causes and make informed decisions about locker availability, allocation and future capacity needs.
Zoom in on a locker bank
Need to investigate a specific location within your premises? Locker AI lets you take a closer look at an individual locker bank, from identifying rarely used compartments to understanding peak demand and how different locker sizes are used.
• How could we improve availability on the third floor without adding new lockers?
• How often does this locker bank run out of available lockers?
• Do we have enough lockers for visitors on our busiest days?
• Do we have the right mix of small and large lockers here?
• Which assigned lockers haven't been used in the past week?
It's especially useful in workplaces where the same locker infrastructure supports different needs, from employee storage to visitor lockers, IT equipment and internal handovers.
From answers to action
Finding the right insight is only the beginning. Locker AI can help you identify specific lockers worth reviewing, suggest possible improvements and guide you towards taking the next step.
Built directly into Blocks Admin Zone, Locker AI connects these insights with everyday locker management: asking a question and making a change happen within the same platform.
“Locker AI is designed to help facility teams get to the relevant information faster, so they can spend less time searching through data and more time deciding what to do with it.”
— Tomas Dryml, Product Manager at Blocks smart lockers
Locker AI's answers reflect the selected building or locker bank and the chosen time period. Context matters. A locker that hasn't been opened recently might be used differently from one that is accessed several times a day, and different storage use cases have different needs.
By bringing this context into a simple conversation, Locker AI helps facility teams turn everyday locker data into more useful information for managing their workplace.
Book a demo or join us at Orgatec to see it live
Over the last six months, we have been testing Locker AI with carefully selected clients worldwide, and the feature is now scheduled for a wider rollout. We’ll publicly showcase it during the upcoming Orgatec trade fair (October 27–30), a global industry meeting point for everyone rethinking and shaping the workplace.
We’ve already seen our corporate customers save hundreds of thousands thanks to better-informed decisions for future office expansions and new locations. Interested in seeing what operational challenges and opportunities it can uncover at your workplace and at scale?