Thingsee PRESENCE

Occupancy and usage data for smart buildings

Thingsee PRESENCE has two modes: occupancy mode and visitor counting mode. Thingsee PRESENCE occupancy data is an essential element of any workplace management solution used to monitor people presence and usage levels of meeting rooms and office desks. Occupancy data can be further used to optimize space usage as well as energy consumption. The sensor is also used for visitor counting in different smart building use cases, where the visitor data is used for analysis on what times certain areas are the busiest, and which areas have been used the most.

How many people have visited your spaces?

People counter mode is used for continuous reporting of the amount of passers by in, for example, doorways of meeting rooms and restrooms. In people counter mode the sensor indicates the cumulative data of passers by. In people counting mode, Thingsee PRESENCE reports the detected movement count every 1 minute. Use of mode can be effectively supported with the Visitor Counter Dome accessory .

Real-time occupancy data

Occupancy mode is used to detect the occupancy of work desks, phone booths or meeting rooms.

In occupancy mode, Thingsee PRESENCE detects movement continuously and uses event based messaging, which means that the device reports on time information on status change. If a movement is detected, the sensor reports value 1, and value 0 when no movement is detected. If the movement detection continues, the sensor sends nothing and only reports again when no movement is detected.

Vice versa, when the sensor detects no movement it report value 0 and, does not report to the cloud until some movement is detected again. Use of mode can be effectively supported with the Occupancy Dome accessory .