Haltian IoT Workplace Intelligence

Haltian was founded in September 2012 in Oulu, Finland, by five engineers from Nokia's product development team. It began as a product development house, then built its own IoT product family after seeing demand for full-scale IoT in real estate, and added the Empathic Building digital twin in 2020.

Its workplace intelligence offering combines wireless Thingsee sensors, a mesh network, gateways and the Haltian IoT Data Platform. Thingsee PRESENCE sensors detect desk and room occupancy using passive infrared without images, ENTRYWAY counts people at entrances, and further modules cover indoor air quality, environmental monitoring, real-time location and parking. The platform's Occupancy Detection Engine merges these signals, and data reaches Microsoft Places, Cisco Spaces, Power BI and partner apps. Customers include offices, hospitals, warehouses and logistics sites.

• Thingsee PRESENCE: Detects desk and area occupancy with passive infrared and no images.
• ENTRYWAY counting: Counts people at entrances for room and floor occupancy.
• Occupancy Detection Engine: Merges entry counts and presence data into one accurate view.
• Environmental modules: Adds indoor air quality, environmental, location and parking monitoring.
• Workplace integrations: Feeds Microsoft Places, Cisco Spaces and Power BI.
• Device management: Manages mesh networks, gateways and devices through Haltian Studio.

A bank headquarters in Hanoi can track desk and meeting room use to redesign floors for hybrid teams. A coworking operator can show real-time availability and bill by usage. A hospital or logistics warehouse can monitor environmental conditions and asset locations on the same network.

Workplace teams get real-time desk, room and phone booth occupancy without cameras, supporting privacy-sensitive deployments. Integration with Microsoft Places enables releasing unused booked rooms to cut ghost bookings. Wireless sensors on a mesh network need minimal maintenance and scale from small offices to global portfolios.

Hybrid work and rising rents push corporates to measure actual space use before renewing leases. Workplace platforms such as Microsoft Places now expect live sensor data, and buyers increasingly want AI-ready building data. Multinational tenants in Southeast Asian business districts face the same pressure.

Founded in September 2012 in Oulu, Finland, by five former Nokia engineers; early work included product development for the Oura ring. Added Empathic Building in 2020. Partners include Cisco Spaces and Microsoft Places. 2026 roadmap adds MCP-based AI integration, SSO, Kafka streaming and a US AWS region.