In February 2023, the Housing Ombudsman released a one-year follow-up to its ‘Spotlight on damp & mould – It’s not lifestyle’ report. It highlighted that 35 per cent of RSLs sampled now have a specific damp and mould policy, 12 per cent are in the process of implementing one, and 19 per cent are self-assessing…
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Fife Council’s connected homes with Aico
Fife Council is exploring a solution to monitor housing quality for all residents in its 32,000 properties. To reach this goal, the council has started a 12-month pilot project as part of its ‘Housing Plus’ programme, with Aico’s HomeLink Connected Home solution installed in 90 properties spanning a range of building types. The pilot project’s…
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Poplar HARCA extends IoT project with Aico
Poplar HARCA is extending its deployment of Aico’s HomeLink devices to around 6,000 homes after the success of its pilot project involving 500 homes at the end of 2022. Aico will be installing over 15,000 of its IoT-based HomeLink environmental sensors within the next 12 months. The HomeLink sensors collect data on temperature, humidity and…
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Poplar HARCA’s validation of Aico environmental sensors
Poplar HARCA knew it needed to make its residents’ homes safer, greener and healthier, and it was also looking for better ways to manage its housing portfolio. The beginning – Tech, meet human ingenuity It all started when Peter Marcus, Poplar HARCA’s assistant director of research, development and transformation, wanted to prove that the air-conditioning…
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Grand Union Housing gets connected with Aico HomeLink
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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