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SpacePulse Occupancy Analytics

Privacy-preserving vision for Meridian Properties — counting space use across 14 floors to heat, cool and clean only where people are.

Computer Vision
Client: Meridian Properties
Timeline: 8 weeks
Live since 2025

Office floor monitored by SpacePulse occupancy analytics

Overview & Challenge

Heating Empty Rooms Is Expensive

Meridian's towers ran HVAC and cleaning on fixed schedules while actual occupancy swung between 20% and 80%. Energy bills climbed, tenants complained about cold popular zones, and nobody could prove which floors needed what.

Badge data was too coarse and Wi-Fi tracking raised privacy flags with the works council. They needed truth about space — without tracking people.

Facilities team reviewing occupancy dashboards

Planning cleaning routes from occupancy data

Approach & Solution

Counts, Never Identities

We deployed edge devices on existing cameras that count occupants and measure dwell — then discard every frame. Only anonymous zone counts leave the device. The works council approved the design before rollout.

On-device inferenceFrames analyzed at the camera; metrics only, no video stored.
BMS integrationLive counts drive HVAC setpoints and cleaning routes.
Tenant dashboardsEach tenant sees their own floors — and their savings.

−22%

HVAC energy use in year one

Floors under live monitoring

96%

Count accuracy vs manual audits

Identifiable images retained