HACT has announced a partnership with Invisible Systems as part of its Launch Pad platform, which showcases some of the most forward-thinking products and services within the UK housing sector.
The collaboration aims to highlight the opportunities available to housing associations and landlords in adopting IoT technology.
HACT and Invisible Systems hope their partnership will ultimately help housing providers identify possible improvements to their housing stock and to better understand how to implement them.
Pete Thompson, CEO of Invisible Systems, said: “Invisible Systems are delighted to have partnered with HACT.
“We’re working with housing associations across the UK to enable them to adopt smart, cost effective technology which tackles the challenges they face such fuel poverty, energy inefficiencies and mould growth within homes.
“We deliver data in real-time, meaning preventative action can be taken and patterns in data can be used to better educate tenants.”
Invisible Systems provides technology that allows landlords to improve their properties, remotely monitoring everything from legionella risk to energy usage to environmental conditions such as humidity and temperature.
Invisible Systems says the insight gained as a result can then improve the wellbeing of residents, provide substantial cost and carbon savings, and improve the health of the homes being managed.
It can be configured to suit a housing portfolio − social, private, large, small − with smart technology including humidity sensors and CO2 monitors.
Michael McLaughlin, Digital lead at HACT, said: “We are really happy to be working with Invisible systems as part of our Launch Pad programme.
“Their focus on supporting social housing organisations to be more data driven and through their existing work in the sector, they have already shown great outcomes on measuring and using asset maintenance data.
“As social housing organisations meet requirements around both building safety and the environmental journey to net-zero, solutions such as those provided by invisible systems IoT technology will play a key role in better understanding and enabling improvement in housing stock across the UK.”
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