Third-party sensors,
without third-party network access

An international legal firm needed accurate, real-time meeting room occupancy and attendance data to plan future floor space — without it, they risked over- or under-provisioning valuable office space, and manual observation wasn’t practical across multiple rooms and floors.

The best-suited occupancy sensors sent data straight to servers operated by the manufacturer, Milesight, with usage figures returned to the client via an API. That put the firm’s IT security policy directly at odds with the operational need: no third-party device was permitted to connect to the private corporate Wi-Fi, yet that connectivity was exactly what the sensors relied on.

Working with business partner Technik IMS, dbr deployed its Olympus data collection module on site, using BusByte technology to create a secure, isolated collection layer between the sensors and the manufacturer’s third-party servers.

This created a physical shield: sensor data was captured and forwarded without ever bridging onto the firm’s private network — delivering the occupancy and attendance data the client needed, without the connectivity risk that came with it.

Had the firm connected Milesight’s sensors the way they were designed to work, every one of them would have become a standing dependency on a third party: a device on the corporate network, phoning home to servers the firm didn’t operate, patched and secured on a schedule it didn’t control. That’s not a single incident waiting to happen — it’s an ongoing exposure someone has to keep tracking for as long as the sensors stay installed.

dbr’s collection layer takes that dependency off the table entirely. No Milesight device, firmware update, or manufacturer server ever gets a path onto the firm’s private network — not a restricted one, not an audited one, none at all. There’s nothing there for a future vendor breach or a firmware vulnerability to reach, because the connection it would need never exists. The risk isn’t mitigated by policy or monitoring; it’s designed out of the architecture.

Reliable, room-by-room occupancy and attendance data for space planning

No third-party connectivity to the firm’s private network

Wider choice of sensor hardware, regardless of manufacturer or origin

Low-disruption deployment, with no network reconfiguration required

Innovation delivered without compromising security standards