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The Pros & Cons of Thermal Sensors for People Counting

Considering thermal sensors for people counting? This guide covers how they work, their limitations, and why a combined sensing approach gets better results.

Workplace Sensors Explained: What to Know Before Buying

Not all workplace sensors do the same thing. Learn the key sensor categories, how they differ, and which ones actually solve your space and building challenges.

Butlr vs VergeSense: A Head-to-Head Comparison

Struggling to choose between Butlr and VergeSense? We break down the key differences in features, costs, and install timelines to help you decide.

VergeSense vs Density vs Butlr Compared Head-to-Head

Struggling to choose between these occupancy sensor platforms? We break down the key differences in features, costs, and install timelines to help you decide.

5 Best Vergesense Alternatives: 2026 Comparison Guide

For each tool, we'll examine how its key features stack up against VergeSense, the pros and cons of each, pricing, and much more.

6 Best Occupancy Sensors for Workplaces [2026 Comparison]

Choosing an occupancy sensor means weighing privacy methods, deployment limits, API flexibility, and true cost at scale. Here are the best options compared.

Sustainability

How Butlr Addresses the Data Center Energy Efficiency Challenge

Heatic™ powered thermal intelligence enables building automation and advanced data center cooling

Insights

Why GDPR Compliance Matters in Europe When Choosing Workplace Occupancy Sensors

By adopting office occupancy sensors that are purpose-built for privacy, companies can avoid regulatory headaches, build employee trust, and still gain the insights they need to create efficient, comfortable, and data-informed workplaces.

Insights

Office Occupancy Sensors on Workspaces | Empower Smarter Offices in 2025

Installing office occupancy sensors on workspaces brings your utilization strategy down to the desk level, delivering precision data on who’s at their workstation and when. In a world where hybrid and flexible schedules dominate, this granular visibility enables facilities teams to design truly responsive environments—optimizing layouts, reducing operational waste, and ensuring every square foot of your office works as hard as your people.

Insights

Workplace Meeting Room Occupancy Sensor | Optimize Meeting Spaces

Meeting rooms are the nerve centers of modern offices, where collaboration, decision-making, and client interactions occur. However, in many workplaces, these spaces are often misused or underutilized due to poor scheduling, no-shows, and lack of visibility. A workplace meeting room occupancy sensor is the solution companies are adopting to tackle this inefficiency. By providing real-time data on space utilization and automating meeting room availability, these smart sensors help organizations reclaim control over their collaboration spaces. Whether it's freeing up unused rooms or optimizing future office layouts, meeting room occupancy sensors are essential for any workplace pursuing operational excellence.

Insights

5 Signs Your Company Needs to Cut Down Office Space: Is Your Workplace Due for a Transformation?

As more employees work remotely, excess office space becomes a burden. Here are 5 signs to look out for to determine whether your company could benefit from cutting down office space.

Workspaces

Everything You Need to Know about Occupancy Sensors For Offices

Discover the future of workplace efficiency with advanced occupancy sensors that go beyond motion detection to deliver data-driven solutions for optimizing your office environment. These sensors help improve energy efficiency by automating lighting, HVAC systems, and more, reduce costs by identifying underutilized spaces, and enhance employee satisfaction through smarter office layouts and real-time space insights. With non-intrusive, anonymous data collection that prioritizes privacy, these technologies are transforming modern offices. Learn about the different types of sensors, their applications, and how integrating them with AI and IoT can create smarter, more sustainable workplaces. Explore Butlr’s advanced, privacy-first occupancy sensors to build a more efficient, employee-focused environment.

Insights

What Is an Occupancy Sensor? Types, Benefits & Applications

Occupancy sensors are devices that detect motion or body heat to control systems like HVAC and lighting. By automatically adjusting these systems based on presence, they enhance energy efficiency, reduce costs, and improve security. Key types include Passive Infrared (PIR) sensors for confined spaces, Microwave and Ultrasonic sensors for larger or obstructed areas, and Camera-Based and Vacancy sensors for specialized needs. Benefits of occupancy sensors include energy savings, cost reduction, better space utilization, and heightened security. Ideal applications span offices, retail spaces, and industrial facilities, where they integrate with IoT systems to optimize operations. Choosing the right sensor involves evaluating factors like the environment, coverage area, and sensitivity. Whether for energy efficiency, space optimization, or security, occupancy sensors are indispensable tools for modern businesses.

Workspaces

Occupancy Sensors for Offices – What Are They and Why You Need Them

In modern offices, more sophisticated occupancy sensor tech gives you insights into how your space is used, which can be helpful in more ways than one. It can help your office cost savings efforts, improve your energy efficiency, and even go so far as to impact the overall employee experience.

Design and Data

Top Strategies on How to Calculate Office Space Utilization

Want to use your office space more efficiently? This guide shows you how to calculate office space utilization. Learn simple formulas and advanced methods that can help you make the most out of every square foot.

Workspaces

Butlr Recognized as Top Innovator in YESSF

This prestigious recognition, supported by key players like Deloitte, Salesforce, Citi, and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, is part of the World Economic Forum's mission to drive innovation ecosystems.

Design and Data

Miro's Office in Amsterdam, NL Redesigned by M Moser Associates

Miro, a leading visual collaboration platform, recognized the need to adapt to the new world of hybrid work and sought the expertise of M Moser Associates, the renowned design firm. Together, they embarked on a journey to create a vibrant and adaptable office space in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that would bring their remote team together and support innovative ways of working.

Insights

Top 10 Types of Data that Will Revolutionize Your Workplace Strategy

Operations

Occupancy Data Made Simple : A Closer Look

Essential spatial data shouldn't live behind closed gates. We empower customers to fully harness this data with our API-first approach, ensuring easy access and integration. This flexibility allows customers to augment existing databases, customize and group data, and develop tailored software solutions, ultimately saving time and boosting efficiency.

Partnerships

Cohesion and Butlr team up to help people understand how spatial change affects the workplace and office.

Two of the fastest growing companies in smart building and IoT technology have partnered to offer dynamic occupancy and space utilization solutions and data.

Partnerships

Butlr joins View Partner Marketplace to Accelerate Digital Transformation of Real Estate

Butlr is partnering with View as an official vendor in the Smart Building Cloud ecosystem. Customers can access the Smart Building Cloud via the View Partner Marketplace, enabling them to deploy popular real estate applications with a single click.

Partnerships

Butlr Technologies Announces Partnership with Propstack for Occupancy Sensing in India

Butlr, the leading people sensing platform, announced a partnership with Propstack, India’s leading real estate technology and data company.

Partnerships

Lendlease Podium Selects Butlr to Provide Occupancy Data for Podium Property Insights

“Butlr enables us to provide accurate, anonymous real-time and historical insights on occupancy and utilization to Lendlease Podium’s customers while achieving the quickest time to value. Their API-first approach is especially valuable in enabling seamless integration, which ultimately benefits Lendlease Podium’s customers.”, said James Walsh, Head of Product Management and Ecosystems at Lendlease Digital.

Partnerships

Butlr Joins Forces With Relogix, Bringing Most Complete Occupancy Analytics Platform to the Hybrid Workplace

Partnerships

Butlr joins forces with Infogrid to deliver truly smart buildings

Infogrid’s Smart Building solutions will incorporate the Butlr Heatic sensors and the data they capture via API to address an unlimited range of use cases, and deliver truly smart buildings.

Partnerships

Butlr, meet Envoy!

Butlr is officially a member of Envoy's integrations; now desk reservations have become a lot easier!

Research

The new workspace is the college campus

Knowing exactly where to invest first requires us to accept the fact that we no longer design offices - we design the experience of working.

Why Hybrid Work Predictions Were Wrong (And What's Actually Happening)

Four years of bold predictions about hybrid work, and almost none of them panned out. Real building data tells a messier story than anyone expected: erratic utilization, RTO mandates that filled offices without improving them, and space cuts based on incomplete data. The organizations getting hybrid work right have stopped predicting and started measuring.

Butlr vs Density: A Head-to-Head Comparison

Struggling to choose between Butlr and Density? We break down the key differences in features, costs, and install timelines to help you decide.

How to Build a Business Case for Occupancy Sensors: Checklist Included

Making the case for occupancy sensors internally isn't just about the technology. It's about translating sensor data into dollars, square footage, and risk reduction that your CFO and executive team can act on. This guide walks you through the key pillars of a compelling business case and closes with a ready-to-use checklist.