Butlr’s People Sensing Platform provides occupancy and indoor traffic data, enabling companies around the world to make data-driven decisions around space management and operations. Employers use Butlr technology to create supportive and collaborative work environments. Commercial real estate professionals use Butlr technology for private and accurate insights on office usage to offer flexible leasing options while executing a smart building strategy featuring more energy efficient properties with a lower carbon footprint. For senior living facilities, Butlr’s anonymous, ambient sensing technology can enable passive check-in for caregiving by understanding movement and flagging unusual activity.
Through its thermal sensors, Butlr translates heat into human presence. Low-resolution thermal sensing makes the Butlr hardware 100% identity-agnostic and private. The sensors are wireless and can be magnetically installed, simplifying an otherwise complicated installation process, and significantly cutting down its cost.
The data captured by the sensors can be consumed either directly through Butlr’s API, or through an analytics platform, provided by one of the Butlr Partners around the world. Butlr also offers a basic dashboard for customers to get a glimpse of the power of spatial insights as they are getting started.
Reporting live from NexusCon 2025 in Denver. Building owners discuss moving smart buildings programs from budget struggles to operational integration. Real case studies, no vendor hype, honest conversations about what actually works.
Water systems remain the least digitized building infrastructure despite posing major risks—from catastrophic leaks to Legionella outbreaks. New non-invasive sensors now offer targeted solutions without requiring comprehensive building automation, transforming water from a utility bill line item into a managed asset with real-time visibility.
While utilities and policymakers promote “demand flexibility” as a simple way for buildings to cut costs and support the grid, the reality is far messier: siloed systems, manual playbooks, and misaligned incentives make coordination far harder than theory suggests. Emerging solutions—like aggregators handling grid relationships, automation providers standardizing control, and readiness assessments that reveal real system capabilities—are making progress, but success today comes from solving specific pieces of the puzzle rather than achieving full multi-system optimization.
Poor cellular coverage is the number one tenant complaint in many commercial buildings, and DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) is often proposed as the solution. But with costs ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, building owners need to understand what they're really getting. Our panel explores the critical questions every owner should ask before investing in DAS technology in our latest Nexus APAC building owner meetup.
Building service contracts are shifting from hourly billing to outcome-based models. Learn what building owners should ask when renewing HVAC and controls maintenance contracts to drive better results and predictable costs.
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