Casambi Technologies, DANLERS, and Calumino have announced the commercial rollout of a privacy-safe thermal-sensing system for smart buildings, marking the full integration of Calumino’s low-resolution thermal technology into the Casambi wireless lighting platform through DANLERS’ plug-and-play controllers.
The launch comes after the companies’ 2024 partnership to introduce thermal sensing to mainstream building-management applications. With the integration work now complete, the trio says the technology is ready for deployment by systems integrators and end-users.
In May 2024, Casambi set out the ambition for the collaboration in an article detailing how Calumino’s thermal intelligence would be embedded into its wireless lighting mesh to support granular occupancy and environmental insights. That concept has now been translated into a marketable product.
Under the integration, Calumino’s thermal sensor is embedded directly into DANLERS’ Casambi-compatible controllers. The companies say the system has been tested, commissioned, and commercially validated, forming an end-to-end building-intelligence offering that combines Calumino’s analytics, Casambi’s lighting-control ecosystem, and DANLERS’ hardware.
The sensor provides low-resolution thermal data with embedded Edge analytics designed to detect and count people without capturing personally identifiable information. The companies claim this can support energy optimisation, space-use analysis, and facility-management applications across offices, hospitality, and healthcare.
A native people-counting feature is now supported within Casambi’s platform, allowing occupancy data to be integrated with building-management systems or used locally with HVAC controls. A new “1+8” feature enables a single sensor to oversee up to eight independently configured zones while managing the wider area as a whole, a move aimed at cutting installation time and cost.
DANLERS’ controllers featuring “Calumino Inside” can now be added to any Casambi wireless mesh and commissioned through the Casambi app, providing thermal-sensing data and lighting control in a single workflow.
Kevin Johnstone, Chief Operating Officer at DANLERS, said the collaboration represents “a major leap forward for intelligent building control”, enabling plug-and-play deployment of privacy-safe thermal intelligence. Bart de Jong, Calumino’s Commercial Director for EMEA and the Americas, said the integration brings thermal sensing into the mass market, delivering “actionable data that buildings, facilities, and people need”. Viktor Olsson, Casambi’s Director of Ecosystem Sales for EMEA, said the partnership demonstrates the value of combining sensing with lighting control to deliver more responsive building systems.
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