Minut launches privacy-first smoke monitoring for rental housing

Minut has launched Minut Living, a smoke and indoor climate monitoring system for multifamily apartments and student housing. The product is designed to help landlords detect smoking, mold risk and unhealthy indoor conditions without relying on residents’ Wi-Fi or compromising privacy.

Why it matters: - Minut Living is aimed at rental buildings where smoke-free policies are hard to enforce and secondhand smoke can spread between units. - The system is designed to give landlords earlier warning on smoking, temperature and humidity problems that can affect resident health. - Minut is positioning the product as a privacy-first alternative for shared housing, where monitoring tools often raise resident concerns.

What happened: - Minut launched Minut Living on Oct. 21, 2026, in Malmö, Sweden. - The product targets rental buildings including multifamily apartments and student housing. - Minut says the system is available now for landlords and operators with portfolios starting at a few dozen units. - A building assessment can be requested through Minut’s Minut Living page.

The details: - Minut Living monitors smoke and indoor climate conditions inside each rental unit. - The sensors detect cigarette and cannabis smoke and measure temperature, humidity and mold risk. - Property managers can receive real-time alerts when smoking is detected, including the time and unit. - The system also flags temperature and humidity levels that suggest a problem needs repair. - Minut SmokeID is the core detection technology. - SmokeID is designed to distinguish cigarette and cannabis smoke from everyday household smoke such as cooking or candles. - Minut says it trained the machine-learning model in a dedicated smoke lab using thousands of controlled smoke events. - In internal testing, SmokeID correctly identified 87% of smoking events, compared with 43% for the closest competing product. - The Minut E1 sensor can run hardwired, plugged into an outlet, or via Power over Ethernet. - A G1 gateway connects the sensors through its own cellular connection. - The gateway uses a long-range signal that reaches through concrete and steel without depending on residents’ Wi-Fi.

Between the lines: - The launch extends Minut’s push from short-term rentals into longer-term residential housing, where health and privacy concerns are more sensitive. - Building-level connectivity is a major selling point because weak Wi-Fi, thick walls and rechargeable devices have limited previous monitoring setups in apartments. - The privacy pitch is central: Minut says the system can help landlords protect residents’ health without constant intrusion. - Minut CEO and co-founder Nils Mattisson said long-term rentals face the same problems as short-term rentals, but with higher stakes because residents live with the risks every day.

What's next: - Minut will begin selling Minut Living to landlords and housing operators managing multifamily and student housing portfolios. - Operators that want to deploy the system can request a building assessment now. - Minut is likely to use the new product to deepen its presence in shared housing and expand beyond short-term rental monitoring.

The bottom line: - Minut is betting that landlords want smoke detection that is more accurate, more connected and less intrusive than typical building monitoring tools.