Postures recognition is one of the human sensing challenges, that helps ambient assisted livings in people accompanying. On the other hand, these ambients assist doctors in the diagnosis of their patients health, mainly through activities of daily livings real time recognition, which is seen in the medical field as one of the best ways to anticipate critical health situations. In addition, the world s population aging, lack of hospital resources to meet all people and increased health care costs drive the development of systems to support ambient assisted livings. Preserving privacy in these ambients monitored by sensors is a critical factor for user acceptance, so there is a demand for solutions that does not requires images. This work demonstrates the use of a low resolution thermal array sensor in human sensing, showing that it is feasible to detect the presence and to recognize human postures, using only the data of this sensor.