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01 · Melbourne · made for physical spaces

The intelligence layer for physical spaces - privacy-first, by architecture.

Occivar is building the intelligence backbone for smart cities and buildings, privacy-first edge AI that counts people, measures density and surfaces anomalies in real time. No video stored, no video transmitted, no faces recognised. Only anonymous numbers ever leave the device.

PrivacyBy architecture, not policy
ProcessingOn-device · zero video stored
HeadquartersMelbourne, Australia
02 · What we do

See. Understand. Act. Without ever watching anyone.

Three things, in the right order. The sensor sees the room without seeing the person. The platform understands the pattern. The integration acts - adjusting HVAC, flagging anomalies, or simply giving you the data you've been guessing at.

01 · SEE

Edge sensors. No video stored.

Small ceiling- or wall-mounted sensors run the model on-device. Raw pixels never leave the room. What leaves the sensor is a count, a heat-map, a queue length - anonymous numbers, nothing more. Meet the occupancy sensor.

02 · UNDERSTAND

Patterns, density, dwell time.

The platform turns counts into context - which zone is busy, when CO₂ is creeping up, where the queues form. You finally see how the building is actually used, not how the booking system says it should be.

03 · ACT

Plug into the systems you already run.

Out to your BMS, Slack, Teams, Snowflake or a webhook - schedule HVAC against real usage, alert when a threshold is crossed, send the right report to the right person on Monday morning.

03 · Live floorplan

This is what an Occivar deployment sees.

Real-time counts across every zone. No faces. No video stored. Just the room, abstracted into anonymous dots and densities. Hover a zone for detail.

Sample · University library

Demo data simulated locally. Real deployments stream from edge sensors over MQTT or HTTPS.

LIVE
People on site - Across 5 monitored zones
Privacy mode By architecture Edge inference only · no raw video transmitted
Hardware 1× edge SoC Per zone · ceiling or wall mount · PoE

"No faces. No video stored. Just counts." - what every sensor on this floorplan promises, encoded in the architecture itself.

Anonymous occupancy analytics, in real time.

04 · Why Occivar

Five reasons operations leads pick up the phone.

We don't lead with surveillance, and we don't ask you to trust a policy. The architecture is the promise. The numbers are the answer. The integration is what you do with them.

R1

Impact-driven, not feature-driven

We measure ourselves in tonnes of CO₂ avoided, dollars not spent on over-cooling, and minutes shaved off queues - not in screens shipped. Every conversation starts with the outcome and works backwards.

R2

Privacy by architecture

Raw video never leaves the sensor. The model runs on-device, emits anonymous counts, and forgets the frame. There is nothing to leak, nothing to subpoena, nothing to misuse - because nothing is stored.

R3

Real-time accuracy you can audit

Sub-second counts, calibrated per deployment, with confidence intervals you can pull into a report. Independent ground-truth audits supported on every pilot.

R4

Visual insights, not dashboards-for-dashboards

Heatmaps, dwell curves, density-over-time - designed so a Head of Property can read them in 30 seconds and an executive can read them in 5. Built for the meeting, not the analyst.

R5

Scalable and portable

One sensor in a single room is a useful pilot. A hundred sensors across a campus is the same software. The platform is hardware-agnostic, BMS-friendly and built for organisations that move slowly on procurement but quickly on outcomes.

And one more thing

Our pricing is per zone, not per camera or per face. You pay for the questions we answer, not the data we hoover up. We don't have the data to hoover.

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05 · The old way vs our way

Drag the handle. See what your building actually needs to know.

On the left, the surveillance era - faces tagged, identities tracked, footage hoarded. On the right, Occivar - anonymous dots, counts only, never a frame stored. Arrow keys work too.

No biometric data, ever Australian Privacy Act + GDPR-aligned Open architecture · auditable
07 · Live metrics

The numbers that walk into the Monday meeting.

A worked example of what a deployment would report, sample data, simulated locally. Counts animate on scroll. We are not yet running field deployments.

Sample · Library floor, illustrative dashboard

Demo data for illustration only. Field deployments targeted H2 2026.

LIVE
Avg occupancy
87%
7-day trend · +12%
CO₂ · Floor 2
612 ppm
Healthy range · OK
Queue · Service Desk
252 s
Threshold 300s · Below alert
08 · Impact calculator

What could it save you?

Move the sliders. Right-sizing HVAC against real occupancy typically returns 8–18% on a commercial energy bill, plus a proportional emissions reduction. These are conservative defaults - your mileage will vary by climate, age of plant, and how badly your current system is over-provisioned.

How the numbers work

Annual saving = floor area × spend per m² × % reduction. Emissions avoided uses 0.68 t CO₂e per MWh - the Australian NEM grid factor - and a 30 c/kWh wholesale-to-retail average.

Conservative assumptions on purpose. Pilots routinely beat the defaults because most commercial buildings are running HVAC to a schedule designed for the busiest day they will ever have.

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09 · Active engagements

Working with the institutions that already trust us with the question.

RMIT
City of Melbourne
AWS Activate
CORENA
BGIG · Backed by the City of Melbourne

Active engagements and grant support. Field deployments targeted H2 2026.

10 · Talk to us

If your building can't answer one of these questions yet, we should talk.

"How was the library used last Friday?" · "Why is HVAC running at full tilt on a quiet floor?" · "Are we anywhere near our crowd-safety threshold tonight?"