This French agency is quantifying everything in its office


Sid Lee is bringing everything in its office online to track coffee pours, toilet flushes, light switches, faxes sent, and more.


Do you love numbers and real-time data? Are you interested in useless facts and figures? Most likely not as as much as France-based creative agency Sid Lee Paris does.

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In celebration of its sixth anniversary, the agency has tapped into the Internet of Things to track our infinitely quantifiable world using real-time data. To do so, the team had placed digital Arduino-embedded sensors throughout its Paris office to count everything that goes on, ranging from how many cups of coffee are poured in a day, to how many times the toilets flush, to how many times doors are opened, to how many steps are taken on the stairs, to how many liters of water are drunk, among countless other things.

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This content is then presented in a sleek online dashboard so you too can monitor a day inside the walls of Sid Lee. Users can click on a specific measurement to compare the running statistics with other figures to date, enabling you to see some interesting patterns. Intrigued? You can check out their dashboard here. In the meantime, watch the video below.

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