Case Study: Deloitte achieves a highly connected, energy-efficient smart workplace with HPE Aruba Networking

Aruba underpins network backbone at world’s most connected building

Deloitte Netherlands transformed its Amsterdam headquarters, The Edge—a 15‑floor, 3,300‑person office—into a smart, sustainable workplace and commercial showcase. The challenge was to replace multiple satellite offices with a single, highly connected building that supports 1,500 hot desks, thousands of sensors and evolving location‑based and productivity applications, while delivering measurable energy, water and waste savings and a platform for ongoing innovation.

Deloitte deployed an Aruba solution—500+ Aruba 330 Series access points with BLE beacons, redundant mobility controllers, ClearPass, AirWave and Aruba ALE—to create a secure, flexible wired/wireless backbone. The network underpins connectivity for more than 30,000 sensors and 3,000 users, consolidates siloed data into a single data lake for analytics, simplifies device and access management, cuts energy use (around 70% less than a standard office) and enables continuous IoT-driven productivity improvements and client demonstrations.

Deloitte

Theo Slaats

Chief Information Officer