Year: 2021 - 2022

Website: www.busybee.se

In early 2021 myself and a few friends co-founded Busybee. Busybee provided customers with in-depth data & analytics about people flow in their venues. You could visit our web app to see how busy our customer’s venues were as well as predictions on future traffic. More importantly, customers could log into a admin panel and see in-depth information on occupancy levels in their buildings. Like many start-ups and small scale projects, my role in Busybee was a bit of everything. As an engineer, my primary contributions were building the entire backend infrastructure for Busybee alongside my two colleagues. This wasn’t just limited to the services processing and analysing the occupancy data, but the graft of actually installing and setting up the physical sensors in our partner’s venues.

We initially developed Busybee at KTH’s library. There we installed sensors to detect people flow and then published the occupancy levels both online and to TV screens in the entrance to the building. Since this was at the height of the Covid pandemic, we developed several features to assist administrators at the library comply with strict Covid-19 regulations. Such as SMS alerts to staff once recommended occupancy limits were reached. Busybee grew and we onboarded a couple more customers.

Below you can see our KTH Innovation demo day poster to get a better idea of the project.