Milesight VS121 AI Workplace Occupancy Sensor

The Milesight VS121 is an AI-powered workplace sensor designed to monitor occupancy and utilization in modern workspaces. Based on Artificial Intelligence technology, it achieves up to 95% recognition accuracy with the ability to sense areas of more than 78 m². The device supports up to 16 custom detection regions and bi-directional line crossing detection, enabling comprehensive space management with minimal sensor deployment. Equipped with Wi-Fi for easy configuration, the VS121 ensures 100% anonymous detection for privacy-compliant monitoring.

Thinger.io Integration

The Milesight VS121 integrates with Thinger.io through LoRaWAN connectivity, enabling real-time occupancy data collection and analysis. The device automatically provisions itself and creates data buckets for historical tracking of workplace utilization metrics.

Requirements

A LoRaWAN server is required to communicate the Milesight VS121 into Thinger.io, some options are:

• The Things Stack
• LORIOT
• ChirpStack

Alongside, the corresponding plugin for the selected LoRaWAN server needs to be installed in your Thinger.io instance.

Get Started

Installation

Look for the plugin in the Thinger.io Plugin Store and install it in your Thinger.io instance. Once the plugin is installed a new Product will be created for this device.

Configuration

The Product is already preconfigured, check that the auto provision prefix matches the one selected in your LoRaWAN server plugin in Thinger.io, or change it to your desire.

Usage

Start sending uplinks for autoprovisioning devices and buckets. This product also provides a predefined dashboard and downlinks.

Additional Resources

Milesight resources can be found at:

• Milesight IoT Official Website
• Thinger docs