Grand Union Housing has begun the installation of Aico’s HomeLink Connected Home solution across its 12,500 properties. The HomeLink IoT-based solution, from alarms to environmental sensors, has a secure 2G network to the HomeLink portal, constantly monitoring fire and carbon monoxide events and indoor environmental conditions such as humidity, temperature and carbon dioxide. The real-time…
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Digitalising retrofits with SHDF & HomeLink
Housing Technology interviewed Sam Collier, sustainability and ethics lead at HomeLink (Aico), to find out about the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) and how the inclusion of digitisation can support decarbonisation. The SHDF is a £3.8bn fund for improving the energy efficiency of social homes in England. All applicable homes with an EPC rating of…
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First portfolio-wide IoT roll-out with Stirling Council & Aico
Following Stirling Council’s original IoT trial with Aico (see the September 2022 edition of Housing Technology), the council has now embarked on the UK’s first full roll-out of a multi-technology and multi-sensor connected-home solution across its entire housing portfolio. 50,000 IoT devices will be installed over the next 8-10 years in homes managed by Stirling…
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Housing Technology’s Data Matters 2022
Kindly supported by Aareon UK, Aico, Capita One, FireAngel and IntoZetta, Housing Technology hosted ‘Data Matters 2022’ at The British Museum in central London in mid-September, with a brilliant turn-out of around 100 guests for our new one-day event focused exclusively on all aspects of data within social housing. Golding Homes (Anna Marie Lawrence-Lovell) opened…
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Aico launches AudioLink+
Aico has launched the second version of its award-winning AudioLink technology to make it easier and faster to access real-time data from Aico’s alarms via its free AudioLink+ app. With the average time to take a report taking around five seconds, the Aico app generates a simple-to-read, colour-coded report on a range of alarm data…
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Stirling Council rolls out Aico’s HomeLink sensors
As part of its five-year plan to make more housing available, Stirling Council is using Aico’s HomeLink IoT-based environmental sensors to get more data on the state of its properties with a view to moving towards proactive maintenance. The data collected from the HomeLink sensors, including indoor temperature, relative humidity and carbon dioxide, is helping…
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