2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

AI sensors anonymously understand how humans use space

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Butlr

Category

Product Design - Building Technology

Client's Name

Butlr

Country / Region

United States

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About The Entry

Butlr’s patented Heatic 2+ wireless sensor is the first of its kind. It combines AI and body heat sensing technology to anonymously understand how humans use indoor space for living and working.

Using machine learning algorithms, Butlr provides real-time and historical spatial insights into how a space is being used. These insights accurately discern activity, occupancy, indoor location, and body posture. This results in working and living environments that are more comfortable, safer, and energy efficient.

Essentially, Butlr makes buildings 'people aware’ by transforming buildings into adaptive, data-driven spaces that enhance the human experience while improving operational efficiency.

By providing a baseline of actual occupancy, operating and capital, Butlr helps inform business decisions based on how the building functions today and ways to improve the human experiences within it.

Ensuring privacy, the Heatic 2+ provides always on data by sensing everyone yet seeing no one. Its sleek design provides never before seen insights into the built environment making buildings more energy efficient, comfortable, safe, and productive.

Key features of the Heatic 2+ sensor include:

Doesn’t require cables and needs minimal maintenance: Since the sensors are intelligent, easy to install and feature a multi-year battery life, they become part of the building environment by always being present yet rarely noticed.

Advanced AI: Uses body heat detection combined with advanced AI to understand presence, movement and occupancy without capturing identities.

Privacy: By processing low resolution non-RGB thermal data, the sensor eliminates privacy concerns at the hardware level.

New form factor: The thin, sleek wireless sensor blends into any environment. Available in black or white, its magnetic back allows for flexible and easy attachment to steel surfaces.

Enterprise-grade Security: Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2) and at rest (AES256), SAML Authentication via OAuth.

API-first data platform for accurate real-time and historical occupancy insights. Data streams to the Butlr dashboard or API and can easily integrate with other data sources to solve the most critical challenges in the built environment.

Certified: FCC approved, certified in US, CA, EU, Japan, Singapore, Australia, India, South Korea, UAE, and Thailand.

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Credits

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Jiani Zeng
Co-founder and CEO
Honghao Deng
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