How it works

What gets installed, what gets measured, what you receive.

SmartChair.AI measures actual chair time and reports it, chair by chair and location by location.

A patented sensor fits each chair you already own.

  • Registers when the chair is occupied or open
  • Your dashboard turns that into utilization, idle windows, and patterns by hour and weekday
  • One office or all of them. Your team keeps every decision.
Permanent line diagram showing the sensor enclosure and its position at the chair base.

The sensor

One sensor per chair. Any make, any age.

A retrofit for the chairs you already own.

Fitted to the chair base. Any make, any model, any age.

  • Registers whether the chair is occupied or open, and for how long
  • A brief step out does not break a visit
  • No cameras, no microphones, no patient identifiers

SmartChair.AI measures chair time, not people.

Five different dental-chair styles connected to SmartChair.AI at the center, with one connection upward to the cloud. Illustrative chair styles, not manufacturer-specific models.

Any make. Any model. Any age.Illustrative chair styles

From chair to dashboard

Chair to cloud to dashboard.

Three steps, and none of them belong to your team.

  1. Chair

    The sensor registers every occupied minute at the chair, from the first patient of the day to the last.

  2. Cloud

    Those readings travel over your office network to SmartChair.AI's secure cloud, encrypted in transit and at rest.

  3. Dashboard

    Occupied minutes become live status, heat maps, utilization and reports at app.smartchair.ai.

What you see

Your morning, on one screen.

What a group operations leader opens before the first huddle.

Open the dashboard and every chair reads occupied or open, in every location.

  • Heat map: the week by hour and day, light blocks showing as pale columns
  • Utilization by chair, operatories side by side
  • Idle windows: the hours that stayed open
  • Locations compared on one measure; reports monthly and quarterly

Pair your production data and you see production per occupied chair hour, by provider and by chair.

SmartChair.AIIllustrative viewLive
Chair time by hourSee where the day opens up.
Less occupiedMore occupied
Light columns reveal idle windows.

Illustrative chair-time pattern. Your dashboard shows your own offices and chairs.

  1. Live status: every chair, occupied or open
  2. Heat map: the week by hour and by day
  3. Utilization by chair: operatories side by side
  4. Idle windows: the hours that stayed open
  5. Production per occupied chair hour, by provider

Install day

Professional install, nationwide. Your team keeps seeing patients.

Nothing changes in your practice management system.

  • Nationwide installers fit the sensors, and remove them whenever you need
  • Your team keeps seeing patients
  • Nothing changes in your practice management system
  • Each fitted chair shows occupied or open as the heat map starts to fill
  • Add the next location on the same agreement

Works with what you have

The sensor works on its own.

Add production data when you want the dollar view.

The dashboard runs on the sensor alone.

  • No practice management system needed for utilization, heat maps, idle windows, or location comparison
  • Pair your production summary for production per occupied chair hour
  • Integration underway with a leading cloud practice management system
Sensor alone
  • Utilization
  • Heat maps
  • Idle windows
  • Comparison across locations
Sensor plus your production summary
  • Production per occupied chair hour

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See it on real chairs.

Bring the capacity question your group is working through. In 30 minutes you will see real chairs on a real dashboard.

Khamir Patel, DMD, on LinkedIn

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