GP PRO and Butlr Technologies are partnering in an attempt to enhance washroom hygiene and facility maintenance beyond the pandemic. The companies will use the latter’s innovative traffic-based cleaning, which is based on a heat-detecting, people-sensing platform.

The two companies have announced a new collaboration that is designed to help facilitate a safer return to facilities by providing a comprehensive differentiated washroom maintenance solution that improves hygiene and reduces labour costs, two major pain points that commercial facilities are facing more than ever in the wake of COVID.

Butlr Technologies, an offshoot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, has built a people-sensing platform using thermal wireless sensors and artificial intelligence to passively and anonymously detect human presence indoors.

Specifically, the platform uses body heat to anonymously infer occupancy, headcount, and activity to generate accurate, real-time, and historic spatial insights at a fraction of the cost and time of legacy alternatives. Since its launch in late 2021, Butlr is already working with dozens of top occupiers, landlords, and service providers in North America, Europe and Asia.

A release says that, in combination with GP PRO’s KOLO Smart Monitoring System, Butlr and GP PRO will enable traffic-based cleaning as a means to increase hygiene while enabling labour savings. The partnership aims to help drive market awareness of the potential and the benefits of traffic-based cleaning solutions.

“Butlr is proud to be cooperating with GP PRO and its innovative KOLO Smart Monitoring System,” said Honghao Deng, founder and CEO of Butlr. “Gone should be the days of schedule-based cleaning. Butlr’s real-time traffic insights will allow users of GP PRO’s KOLO system to achieve a better customer experience while realizing labour and environmental impact savings.”

“Butlr demonstrated a great deal of insight in developing its Heatic platform as a way for facility managers to address several critical implications from COVID-19,” said John Strom, vice president and general manager of connected solutions with GP PRO. “When deployed in combination with our KOLO system, there’s no doubt in my mind that customers will achieve a new level of operational efficiency and hygiene. In tandem, these two technologies have the potential to dramatically and positively impact facility management.”

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