Vale of Aylesbury Housing has begun installing Switchee IoT devices in around 15 per cent of its properties, towards its longer-term goal of making all of its 6,500 properties fully IoT-connected. The housing provider is using Switchee’s smart thermostats to pre-emptively identify and resolve problems with mould and damp, based on its successful trial of…
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20,000 Flagship properties in Switchee IoT deal
Following a two-year pilot project in 500 homes, Flagship Group is installing Switchee smart thermostats in 20,000 of its properties from April 2021 onwards, with the aim of moving closer to a proactive and predictive maintenance strategy. As well as cutting tenants’ fuel bills, data is sent from the Switchee devices via the mobile phone…
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A mould bomb is coming…
Usually, I am hesitant to write about issues that could be seen as a fear-mongering warning, but not in this case. There is a ‘mould bomb’ coming for every housing provider in the UK and unfortunately, it has teeth – ‘Fitness for Human Habitation Legal Disrepair’ teeth, to be specific. Over the last two years,…
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Lessons in digital inclusion from our own social isolation
The prospect of up to six months of social isolation has immediately drawn attention to connectivity in people’s homes. That attention has been largely focused on the high bandwidth needs of entertainment, social engagement and working from home. The communication networks have all come out to share their network loading data and explain to us…
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Flagship’s Switchee IoT expansion
Following the successful trial of Switchee IoT devices at 10 Flagship properties in 2017, the housing provider is now extending the project to almost 500 properties across Norfolk and Suffolk, with the aim of reducing fuel poverty and rent arrears, preventing damp and mould, and improving boiler maintenance. The first phase involved Flagship, Switchee, Gasway…
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Switchee wins Ashden Award for its innovative smart thermostat
Switchee has won the 2017 Impax Ashden Award for Energy Innovation. Switchee’s smart thermostat, designed specifically for the social housing sector, is intended to cut fuel bills for tenants and help housing providers to maintain the quality of their stock. The Ashden Awards are given to pioneers in sustainable energy and are a globally recognised…
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