XY Sense

XY Sense develops AI-powered occupancy sensors and analytics that deliver precise workspace utilisation data, helping corporate real estate teams make better decisions about office space. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, the company serves some of the world's largest companies across the corporate and commercial real estate sectors.

Its sensor hardware tracks the precise X and Y coordinates of people within a space, updating their location every two seconds. Privacy is designed in from the ground up: the system captures 100% anonymous data. The data is fed into an AI-powered analytics platform that combines with the sensor hardware to help organisations understand utilisation patterns and optimise their physical environments.

The company's stated aims include improving how humans interact with the built environment and creating offices where people genuinely want to work, with sustainability and space productivity as stated goals. It was founded to solve a workplace problem the founders had encountered in prior jobs, and describes itself as a mission-driven team focused on changing workplaces for the better.

Work spans several technical domains, among them computer vision and spatial tracking, sensor hardware, AI-powered analytics and privacy-preserving data capture.