Desk utilization
Daily and peak occupancy, average usage and desk-sharing opportunities — compared with available desks and capacity.
Occupancy & Spatial Intelligence
Understand How Every Space Is Actually Used.
Turn anonymous occupancy and movement data into actionable insights for smarter buildings, better space planning, and more responsive facility operations.
- No video
- No facial recognition
- No identity tracking
- No biometrics
7.1 Privacy-first thermal sensing
Sense people. Not identities.
Compatible low-resolution thermal sensors measure heat patterns across a coverage area. Algorithms interpret those patterns as people — estimating presence, count, position and movement — without recording conventional photographs or video.
Supported applications
- Human presence
- Approximate headcount
- Movement patterns
- Space occupancy
- Dwell time
- Zone activity
- Traffic direction
- Selected posture/activity insights where supported
Privacy benefits of the thermal sensors
- No conventional video capture
- No facial recognition
- No individual identity tracking through the thermal sensors
- No biometric identification
These statements describe the thermal occupancy sensors. Other connected systems you operate (for example, access control or Wi-Fi) have their own privacy characteristics.
What the sensor reads: low-resolution heat values
Meeting Room 3 — analytics view
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occupant count · no identity
- A person enters the room.
- The low-resolution thermal sensor detects a heat pattern.
- The sensor system interprets occupancy and movement.
- The building analytics interface updates.
- Operators understand how the space is used — without identifying the person.
7.2 Presence vs. traffic monitoring
Two configurations, different questions.
Presence monitoring
Measures whether people are present within a monitored area and, for compatible configurations, estimates their count and location within that area.
- Offices
- Meeting rooms
- Collaboration spaces
- Laboratories
- Lounges
- Classrooms
Traffic monitoring
Measures movement across configured boundaries — in and out of a doorway, room or building.
- Entrances & exits
- Room traffic
- Restroom visits
- Building circulation
- Footfall trends
- Occupancy estimates
Traffic count
How many crossings of a line occurred in a period — e.g., 214 entries today.
Instantaneous occupancy
How many people are estimated in a space right now — e.g., 7 in the lounge.
Dwell
How long people stay in a zone — e.g., average 34 minutes in focus rooms.
7.3 Desk & room occupancy
Binary sensors for individual desks and small rooms, alongside zone-level thermal sensing.
Under-desk presence sensors and ceiling motion sensors answer “is it occupied?” for desks, booths and focus rooms. Thermal sensing covers open areas, lounges and larger rooms with counts. Together they cover every space type on one floor plan.
7.4 Workplace space utilization
Plan space on measured use — not floor plans and badge counts.
Conference room optimization
Compare room capacity with actual average and peak occupancy and hours in use. Identify underused rooms and rooms routinely too large for the meetings they host. Booking data can be added where a reservation-system integration is available.
Ghost booking detection
Combining occupancy with reservation-system data helps identify rooms that are booked but unused. Integration availability is confirmed per booking platform — we don't claim to integrate with every system.
Floor & neighborhood utilization
Occupancy by floor and zone, day-of-week trends, utilization heatmaps and peak demand.
Space right-sizing
Evidence for room reconfiguration, desk allocation, shared space planning, floor consolidation and lease planning.
7.5 Smart cleaning & restroom traffic
Clean Based on Demand. Not Just the Clock.
Anonymous traffic counts show which restrooms and spaces see the most use — so custodial teams can focus rounds, plan supplies and document service.
- Restroom entry counts
- Hourly & day-of-week trends
- Configurable usage thresholds
- Cleaning recommendations
- Custodial dispatch integrations*
- Supply planning
- Historical reporting
*Work-order and dispatch integrations depend on the customer's maintenance platform and are confirmed per project.
Estimate cleaning hours you could reallocate
7.6 Occupancy-informed HVAC & lighting
Integration-enabled building response.
Occupancy signals can be integrated into compatible building automation systems to inform:
- Occupancy-based HVAC schedules
- Lighting control strategies
- After-hours conditioning analysis
- Room demand trends
- Building usage analytics
Important: sensors do not control HVAC or lighting equipment directly. Any control strategy is implemented through your building automation system with appropriate controls integration, engineering review and owner authorization.
Occupancy signal
Anonymous presence or count for a room or zone.
Integration layer
Data is shared with the building automation system through a supported, approved interface.
BAS sequence (owner-authorized)
Controls engineers decide how — or whether — occupancy informs setpoints, schedules or lighting.
Review
After-hours conditioning and demand trends are reviewed to verify results.
7.7 Higher education
Measure attendance, not just the timetable.
- Lecture hall utilization
- Classroom scheduling
- Campus space planning
- Faculty office occupancy
- Laboratory utilization
- Library & common-area demand
- Campus cleaning
- Energy optimization opportunities
Use the filters on the heatmap to explore day-of-week and time-of-day patterns (sample data).
7.8 Laboratories
See which zones and instrument areas earn their square footage.
- Laboratory zone utilization
- Shared instrument station occupancy
- Equipment-area dwell
- Research space planning
- Bottleneck identification
- Expansion planning
Presence ≠ operating status. Occupancy shows people at an equipment station. Whether the instrument is running requires separate equipment monitoring.
7.9 Retail & public spaces
Anonymous, aggregate insight into how people use space.
Foot traffic
Entries and exits by hour, day and season.
Dwell time
How long visitors stay in zones and departments.
Fitting-room occupancy
Availability and demand without cameras in sensitive spaces.
Layout & staffing
Customer-flow patterns to inform layout and staffing decisions.
Focused on aggregate patterns. Thermal sensing does not identify individual customers.
Occupancy dashboard demonstration
Explore six conceptual views.
Live occupancy, history, floor plan, space optimization, smart cleaning and device status — all with invented sample data.
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Tell us about the operational problem you are trying to solve. We will help you scope sensing, connectivity and reporting that fit your facilities.