Butlr

Butlr operates a sensing platform built on anonymous thermal occupancy sensors paired with an open API. The company states its sensors are camera-free and physically unable to capture faces, identities, or personally identifiable information, positioning privacy as a property of the hardware. The sensors are wireless and described as installing without cabling or construction, which the company presents as suited to retrofits, phased deployments, and multi-building rollouts.

The same sensor and API stack underpins three distinct solution lines. Workplace applies anonymous occupancy data to space planning, energy use, operations, and employee experience, with stated uses including repurposing office space and smart cleaning schedules. Care provides around-the-clock, camera-free ambient monitoring that gives care teams early warning of changes in resident activity without cameras or wearables. Data Center provides continuous thermal monitoring across the power path to detect overheating connections between periodic thermal scans. The platform is described as scaling from a single floor to a global real estate portfolio.

Business model

Butlr sells a hardware-plus-software platform: thermal occupancy sensors deployed in customer spaces, with data and alerts delivered through an open API and solution-specific applications. It engages buyers directly via demo requests across categories including workplace, higher education, laboratories, and senior living, and also works through technology and channel partners who integrate Butlr data into their own products.

Latest developments

In March 2026 Butlr announced a partnership with Disruptive Technologies for privacy-first building intelligence. In July 2026 it launched smart cleaning technology for commercial offices. During 2026 it also published research on office costs and space utilization data, including findings that four out of five commercial real estate and workplace executives lack the data needed to lower office costs.