As fuel poverty and the cladding crisis leave home safety on shaky foundations, FireAngel’s co-founder and chief product officer Nick Rutter explores smarter ways to protect residents and properties. Millions of UK households are expected to be hauled into fuel poverty for the first time as energy bills soar, leaving low-income households vulnerable to cold,…
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FireAngel’s ‘future of fire safety’ roundtable
FireAngel recently hosted a roundtable discussion with delegates from the National Social Housing Fire Strategy Group, Ealing Council, and Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service to discuss how innovative technologies can raise fire-safety standards and empower communities. Golden thread of information Following the Grenfell tragedy, those responsible for fire safety were struck…
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Building confidence in compliance with IoT
For housing providers, the responsibility of managing compliance can be incredibly hard because it can be difficult to demonstrate. In the past, documents and reports would have been physically stored and logged for the thousands of social rented properties across the UK, with their respective compliance statuses becoming almost a guessing game once the reports…
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Housing Technology Guides to HMS and Connected Homes
Following the success of Housing Technology’s series of guides to artificial intelligence, omni-channel and CRM, finance and procurement, and business intelligence in social housing, we are about to start the research and production for our two new guides to housing management systems and connected homes. The Housing Technology guide to ‘connected homes’, supported by FireAngel,…
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Beating damp & mould with data
The recent Housing Ombudsman’s report ‘Spotlight on Damp and Mould; It’s not lifestyle’, calls for housing providers to take a zero-tolerance approach to damp and mould in properties. It also asks them to be proactive in identifying homes that have or may be at risk of developing problems rather than putting the onus on tenants…
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Remotely monitoring & protecting connected communities
The concept of digital twins and using data to create a virtual representation of a physical object has been part of FireAngel’s innovations since 2007 when the IoT landscape began to take shape. With housing providers facing growing pressure to improve fire safety for residents and maintain a ‘golden thread’ of asset information, meeting these…
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