Trinity Chavez sits down with Honghao Deng
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00:00Welcome back to another special edition of Taking Stock in collaboration with Silicon Angles,
00:04The Cube, where we get exclusive insights from some of the industry's biggest and most
00:08influential leaders in the AI space, all a part of the NYC community. Today, we are joined by
00:14the CEO of Butler.io, a company leading the way in spatial intelligence and thermal sensors.
00:20Let's get started.
00:21Now, your company uses thermal sensors and AI to detect human activity. Talk to me about
00:34this product and how you ensure data privacy amongst your customers.
00:39Privacy-friendly is certainly a key differentiator of this technology. So,
00:44unlike other camera solutions that call themselves optical sensors or processing data on the edge,
00:50so they are private-friendly, we are more privacy-friendly at the core of the hardware.
00:56So, if I put this sensor up on the ceiling right now, it will only sense temperature data point
01:02per square foot and translate it into location of the people, like two of us sitting here,
01:08and also our body posture, things like that, without violating any privacy, no camera footages
01:14at all. How does your platform, the spatial intelligence platform anyway, how does that
01:18really adapt to the evolving, ever-changing landscape that we see in the AI and technological
01:24sectors?
01:24Built environment, very unfortunately, is a slow adopter. To be frank, this is the largest
01:31user interface around us. It's not the screens we're looking at, staring at every day. This
01:37interface, the user interface of built environment buildings, there are 7 billion daily active users.
01:43The reason why we got so many policy changes for even back to office, because foundationally,
01:50we don't even have the bare-bone baseline data of the workplaces. So, the C-level,
01:55the leadership are in crunch mode. So, the way I see the future is that we have to have
02:00sensing as a baseline infrastructure so the buildings can sense, like a sense of touch.
02:06Not like having eyes everywhere, it's more having nerve cells, like Butler solution,
02:10which is completely privacy-friendly, to understand what users need. And then,
02:14you can generate intelligence on top. So, I really deeply think the next step for us
02:20is really building that privacy-friendly, easy-to-deploy infrastructure for all built
02:25environments so there is spatial intelligence on top that can be developed. So, things like
02:30senior living, which I'm really excited about, it's not just a detection, not just a simple
02:36data of somebody's fall, but how to utilize AI to prevent falls. It's more about the ambient
02:42awareness, a fall awareness, meaning that from this moment, number of time visiting bathroom,
02:49is this more risk of potential fall? Can we prevent it ahead of time? It's like predicting
02:54the future and happening in 3D space, beyond screen space. A lot to look out for. Well,
02:59thank you so much for joining me today on Taking Stock. Thank you so much for inviting me.