Butlr, a proptech firm focusing on what has of late been a popular category — measuring occupancy and sensing people — received an additional funding round of $5 million from Qualcomm Ventures.

A 2019 spin-off from the MIT Media Lab, the company "uses body heat and machine learning to detect occupancy, headcount and activity, and generate accurate, real-time and historical spatial insights while being incapable of collecting personally identifiable information," according to a company press release.

The company also announced a new version of its Heatic wireless sensors and analytic tools.

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