Archangel has recently gained part of a £600,000 Smart & Connected Social Places (SCSP) 5G innovation fund with support from the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) for a integrated housing and care technology project at Bield Housing & Care in South Lanarkshire.
Covering 25 properties in one of Bield Housing’s developments, the six-month pilot project involves the installation of IoT sensors around the development and inside residents’ homes in order to monitor property and wellbeing conditions such as temperature, humidity and motion.
Gavin Wright, head of property management, Bield Housing & Care, said, “This project enables us to explore IoT expansion as part of our digital strategy and it aligns closely with the ‘Smart Social Housing’ initiative which aims to tackle the fragmentation of data across disconnected systems.”
The IoT sensors’ data is then relayed to Archangel’s technology platform and automatically monitored 24/7 for any problems relating to the residents or their living conditions. The sensors are connected via Angelnet (see above), with the data made available to all stakeholders via the Archangel platform.
Tom Morton, CEO and founder, Archangel, said, “Data related to social housing, health, care and wellbeing is typically spread across multiple vendors’ systems and siloed datasets. This disjointed approach creates inefficiencies and hinders the large-scale adoption of IoT due to the costs associated with numerous single purpose systems and the specialised skills needed to manage them.
“This project showcases a smarter and more cost-efficient approach to solve these problems using data collection and presentation from multiple IoT devices via a unified communication infrastructure. It offers a single, holistic view of residents and their home environments, allowing for collective decision-making and timely interventions.”
