Butlr

With a network of sensors and responsive architectural elements, Butlr is the world’s first and only context-aware architecture think tank. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, while safeguarding user privacy. Butlr's technology detects user behaviors and indoor positions without using video footage, understanding users’ need to achieve seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and optimizing business.

Butlr's vision, context-aware responsive architecture, is a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects.

The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort.

The responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies.

Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity.

The future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras. Imagine a physical world that truly understands customers, user experience, is safe, responsive, and intelligent—powered by Butlr.