We started Occivar™ because someone had to.
Every surveillance vendor sells the camera and quietly hopes you don't read the data-retention policy. We built the opposite product - one where the answer to "what does it know about me?" is structural, not aspirational.
Occivar was formerly known as CrowdVision.ai. We rebranded to Occivar in 2026, same team, same product, same logo, new name. The registered legal entity remains CrowdVision.ai Pty Ltd.
Be the intelligence layer of the smart city - without making it a surveillance target.
Most of the world's buildings still operate on hunches. Calendars say a floor is busy; the floor is empty. HVAC runs full-bore; the room is unoccupied. Sustainability targets miss; nobody saw the gap.
Surveillance vendors solved this - and created a worse problem. Occivar removes the trade-off. The architecture is the privacy answer. The numbers are the answer to "is this space working?"
We are Australian deep-tech. Pre-seed, working prototype, Melbourne-headquartered. Raising AUD $2M to put a sensor in every public space in the country that wants the answer without the cost.
"I trained as an engineer, a double degree in Electronic & Computer Systems Engineering (Hons) and Computer Science, then spent my days as a property asset manager, watching buildings run on guesswork. Floors sat empty while the HVAC ran flat out, and nobody could answer a simple question about how a space was actually used. I had the two things needed to fix it: a love of computer vision and a systems engineer's instinct for design. So I started this company. The smart city is coming, a market projected to reach USD 6.31 trillion by 2034. My job is to build its backbone before the boom."
Farahan Wazer · Founder & CEO
The intelligence layer of the smart city.
By 2034 the global smart-cities market is projected to reach USD $6.31 trillion - one of the largest infrastructure shifts of the decade.
A trillion-dollar layer needs a trillion-dollar foundation, and the foundation cannot be a surveillance one. Cities and the buildings inside them will be wired with sensors, but the sensors that survive the next decade will be the ones that answer the privacy question structurally - not the ones that ask the public to trust a retention policy.
Occivar is building toward that role - the intelligence layer at the seam of smart-city, smart-building and privacy compliance. Every count, every density signal, every threshold crossing, anonymised at the edge, surfaced as the operational layer the city and the building act on.
All figures are 2030 projections. Sources: Grand View Research, MarketsandMarkets · Smart Cities, MarketsandMarkets · Intelligent Building Automation.
The people who said yes early.
David Louis Chokolich
Strategic Advisor · Go-to-market
Brings two decades in enterprise GTM across the property, infrastructure and built-environment sectors. The reason our procurement conversations move at the right pace.
Prof. Abdelkarim Erradi
Technical Advisor · Edge AI
Edge AI, distributed systems and IoT security across academia and industry. Keeps us honest on the architecture and the publication record.