Density vs. Milesight: which occupancy sensor should your office choose?

Put Density first when your workplace team wants to connect room and desk measurement to space decisions, with published software pricing and an accessible analytics workflow. Waffle provides anonymous radar sensing; Density Instant lets teams explore workplace questions through interactive charts. Together, they give buyers a concrete path to evaluate from sensor to decision. Explore Waffle and see Instant.

Milesight is also a relevant option. The useful comparison is between the proposed products, outputs and complete deployment, rather than the words “AI” or “radar” on a specification sheet.

Begin with the answer your space needs

A phone booth may need a simple occupied-or-vacant status. A meeting room may need to distinguish solo use from group use. A desk requires a measurement boundary that excludes the neighboring seat. Set that requirement before comparing sensors.

Product	Published measurement	Buying implication
Density Waffle	Zero, one, two or three-plus people	Supports availability and individual-versus-group use; three-plus is a category, not an exact larger headcount.
Milesight VS370	Human presence using radar and PIR	Evaluate for room presence; do not equate presence with group-size measurement.
Milesight VS340 / VS341	Desk or seat occupancy; PIR, with thermopile added in VS341	Compare a desk installation against the actual seat boundary.
Milesight VS133 / VS135	Regional people counting and bidirectional crossing counts using ToF	Specify whether the decision needs a count within a region or entrance/exit totals.

For a room program that needs to distinguish individual use from groups, Waffle's stated categories make Density a strong starting point. Validate placement in your actual rooms before expansion.

Include the full-headcount requirement

For meeting-room decisions that need a full headcount, begin with Density’s workplace sensor guidance. It directs full headcount to Open Area, small-space categories to Waffle, and entrances and exits to Entry. Match the output and coverage plan to the question before comparing accuracy figures.

Milesight’s VS133/VS135 ToF family supports both regional people counting and bidirectional crossing counts. It serves a different task from the VS370 presence sensor or VS34x seat sensors. Specify the quoted SKU, detection region and reporting output. Ask both vendors to demonstrate the same empty, solo and group conditions against agreed reference observations.

Treat AI and privacy as product-specific questions

Milesight's occupancy comparison distinguishes VS370 radar/PIR presence detection from VS121 AI/RGB workplace counting and VS321 AI/PIR/RGB occupancy sensing. Milesight offers several technologies; one model's capabilities do not describe its entire range.

VS370 is image-free, and Milesight describes VS34x detection as anonymous. Both vendors therefore offer camera-free sensing. VS370 details and VS34x details explain those approaches.

Ask where AI adds value to your task: detecting presence, counting people or answering workplace questions. Demonstrate the output you need before treating the label as a reason to buy.

Compare the network and the operating work

Waffle is self-installable, powered without batteries, and connects through dual-band Wi-Fi with WPA2 PSK. Confirm power, mounting and network approval for each proposed location.

Milesight's VS370 and VS34x use batteries and LoRaWAN. VS34x documentation describes standard gateways and network servers, compatibility with Milesight platforms, and D2D control without gateways. Specify the route needed for historical analytics separately from direct device control. An existing LoRaWAN deployment may change the economics; available Wi-Fi and power may favor Waffle's approach.

Price the complete result

Density publishes Waffle hardware at $279, room/phone-booth software at $8 per unit per month, and desk software at $2.50 per unit per month, both software rates billed annually. See current pricing.

At unchanged rates, the room/booth three-year hardware-and-software subtotal is $567 per unit: $279 + (36 × $8). It excludes installation, taxes, shipping, connectivity and other deployment costs. Confirm quantities and the applicable software category.

Request a Milesight proposal covering the same spaces, output, gateways, network service, analytics, integration and maintenance. Compare that complete proposal with Density's complete proposal. A sensor-only price cannot settle affordability.

Make the demonstration earn the decision

Ask Density to show whether small groups dominate your meeting rooms or how desk use compares between sites. Instant's public demonstration presents natural-language questions and interactive charts. Request the same decision workflow from the proposed Milesight solution, including its selected platform.

Choose Density when that combination of defined sensing, inspectable pricing and workplace answers fits your rollout. Book a demo or email sales@density.io with your desks, booths and decisions.

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