Devices
Floor Kiosks
The wayfinding screen on the floor itself: a map of the floor with live availability, in your own colours, so people find a free desk or the right room without asking anyone.
Updated Jul 25, 2026
Configuration · Devices · 5.4
A floor kiosk is a screen standing on the floor it describes: it shows the floor map, what is free and what is taken, and lets someone orient themselves without walking a lap or asking a colleague. Where a visitor kiosk handles arrival at reception and a room signage speaks for one room, the floor kiosk covers the space in between: the floor as a whole.
It is the physical counterpart of the floor map in the web app, which is why it belongs to Devices rather than to a module: the map and the availability come from your existing configuration, and here you only decide which floor this screen shows and what it looks like.
Why this matters to the business
"Where do I sit today?"
In a flexible office the answer changes daily. A screen at the stairwell answers it in three seconds.
"People wander the floor looking for a free desk"
Live availability on the map turns a walk around the floor into a glance.
"Visitors and new joiners keep asking reception"
A kiosk at the entrance to the floor takes the wayfinding questions off your desk.
"Our screens look nothing like us"
Logo, colours and a background image, so the kiosk matches the building instead of fighting it.
Registering a kiosk
Every kiosk is one record in the list, showing its title, serial number, building, default floor and status. Registration itself is deliberately simple: the device shows a serial number and you type it in here, which is what pairs the physical screen with this configuration.
| Setting | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Title | How you recognise this screen in the list. Name it after where it hangs, not after the hardware. |
| Serial number | The serial shown on the kiosk itself. This is the pairing, so it is required. |
| Building | Which building the kiosk stands in. Required, because it scopes everything it shows. |
| Default floor | The floor it opens on and returns to. Set it to the floor the screen is physically on. |
| Language | The language of the kiosk interface, per device, so an international site can differ per floor. |
| Idle timeout (seconds) | How long after the last touch it returns to the default floor, so the next person starts from a clean screen. |
| Show 3D | Show the floor in three dimensions instead of flat. Nicer to read in an open-plan space, busier in a dense one. |
| Show availability | Whether free and occupied are shown on the map at all. Off makes it purely a wayfinding screen. |
| Active | Take a screen out of service without deleting its configuration. |
Appearance
The Appearance tab is your house style: theme colour and theme font colour, button colour and button font colour, icon colour, a logo (optionally rendered inside a square), a background image and the opacity of that image so the map stays readable on top of it.
Two practical notes. Contrast beats brand guidelines on a screen people read from three metres away, so check the result on the device rather than on your laptop. And keep the background opacity low: an image at full strength turns a legible map into wallpaper.
Which decisions will you make?
Where do the screens go?
At the point where people arrive on the floor: lift lobby, stairwell, entrance. Not in the corner nobody passes.
Availability on or off?
On is more useful and also more revealing about who sits where. Decide it with the same care as the floor map itself.
One naming convention
"Breda, floor 2, lift lobby" tells you where to go when a screen goes dark. "Kiosk 4" does not.
Who keeps the map current?
The kiosk is only as good as the floor map behind it. Name an owner for that, not for the screen.