One key advantage of Butlr’s sensors is that they preserves privacy, claims Deng. The palm-sized hardware captures only “temperature pixels” and nothing else, unlike, say, cameras.
“There are various sensing modalities to understand space occupancy and utilization, ranging from the old-school time and utilization studies (i.e., consultants with clipboards and clickers) to using Wi-Fi access points to cameras and more exotic lidar solutions,” Deng continued. “Each sensing modality has its advantages and limitations due to physics. The reason customers are choosing Butlr has to do with privacy, cost of ownership, time to value and flexibility.”
It’s worth noting that Butlr isn’t totally unique in its privacy-preserving approach.