Housing Associations
Technology for your Housing Association Homes
Challenges in the social housing sector
The social housing sector is subject to many competing pressures/challenges, ranging from:
- Financial & Economic Challenges
- Funding & Inflation
- Funding Gap
- Home & Resident-Related Challenges
- Damp & Mould
- Anti-Social Behaviours of Tenants
- Lack of Supported Housing
- Disrepair
- Resident Engagement & Communication
- Regulatory & Governance Challenges
- Greater Scrutiny & New Regulation
- Fire Safety
- Strategic & Operational Challenges
- Building New Homes
- Net Zero & Sustainability
- Procurement
- Digital Transformation
Automated Spaces solutions for the social housing sector
Automated Spaces unique ‘Independent Living Smart Spaces’ solution, which combines smart home technologies with an activity monitoring solution, means that we can offer housing associations the following advantages, benefits and opportunities:
Financial & Economic Challenges:
- Reduce Overheads;
Costs associated with Building Insurance cover for water leak damage can be reduced utilising our water damage prevention solutions.
Home & Resident-Related Challenges:
- Reduce the incidences of Damp & Mould; Using our environmental monitoring solutions.
- Reduce Incidents of Anti-Social Behaviours by Tenants; Using our noise sensors can monitor and provide an audited report of the noise levels within a property.
- Reduce Drug Usage in Your Properties; Using our sensors that can detect vape smoking of illegal substances e.g., THC.
- Quickly convert properties to supported housing; Our Independent Living Smart Spaces solutions can be retro fitted to properties meaning that any type of property could be quickly converted to a supported housing property in a cost-efficient manner.
- Reduce Disrepair Claims; Our water damage prevention solutions can reduce the number and severity of water leaks in your properties.
Strategic & Operational Challenges
- Increased Sustainability; Reduce inappropriate water usage using our water damage prevention solutions that can help control inappropriate water usage and achieve an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM rating for your buildings.
- Competitive Procurement; Buying readily available solutions, rather than specialised equipment, is more cost effective. There is a larger pool of suppliers available for these types of readily available solutions which means there is a more competitive procurement route for Housing Association Procurement Teams.
Our technology solutions for your Housing Association homes
Automated Spaces can provide the following technology solutions for your housing association homes:
See the following sections for further details about the technologies for housing association homes.
Note: These technologies are totally modular, you can select just one or combine any number of them, to create the right solution for your homes.
Water damage prevention
A sensor that detects water usage and leaks, placed on the mains water pipes for the property.
Dashboards provide your property maintenance teams the ability to track typical water consumption and alert for any unsual usage patterns including slow concealed leaks. With the ability to automatically switch off the water supply, as well as issue alerts, if there is a dramatic water leak event associated with a burst pipe.
Useful for housing association maintenance teams to prevent significant damage occuring associated with water leaks. This can help reduce the costs associated with not having to make insurance claims for flooding e.g., insurance policy excesses. It could also help reduce your overall insurance charges as your insurance providers may lower your policy premiums due to this solution being in place. It also descreases the potential chance of disruption caused, to both tenants and those pepople in neighbouring properties, due to building works to repair flood damage incidents.
It is also useful for tracking water consumption across the entire housing stock by individual residents so that any unusual usage patterns can be quickly identified e.g., a tenant who is leaving a tap in a kitchen sink running over night which potentially could cause damp or mould issues. This type of water consumption tracking can help your housing association achieve an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM rating for your buildings.
Halo sensor
Detect a wide range of anomalies...keep your tenants safe and reduce any sources of potential nuisance to their neighbours, without intruding on your tenants privacy.
Protect your staff and tenants. With HALO you are able to detect fights, aggression and loud noises in usually quiet areas. Staff can summon assistance by speaking a keyword.
Add another level of information to security systems and be notified of vaping, air quality and safety events without using visual or audio recording.
Your maintenance teams can use the Cloud based dashboards assess potential issues with a single global dashboard view of recent events, current sensor levels, hot spots and air quality levels across all your properties with the installed sensors.
Useful for those those housing associations who are concerned about tenant's and staff's safety as well as reducing anti-social behaviour.
Temperature & humidity sensors
Monitor temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in real time. Abnormal environment conditions can trigger immediately alerts to your maintenance team's incident management tool. Preventative maintenance steps can be swiftly taken to reduce the chance of damp or mould forming from long term exposure to high humidity levels within your properties.
Useful for those housing associations with concerns about damp or mould forming in their properties with the associated risks to their tenants and also for potential damage to the infrastructure of the property.
Independent Living Smart Spaces solutions
We have a wide range of Independent Living Smart Spaces solutions that can be easily and cost efficiently installed into both your new build and existing Housing Association properties.
Create support housing environments for your tenants:
- with Mobility Challenges
- with Traumatic Brain Injuries
- with Dementia
- who are Blind
- with Autism
Click on any of the image below to further explore the available Independent Living Smart Spaces solutions.
