Smart Housing Solutions - Technology and Data Driven Improvements

Smart housing solutions can support a range of use cases, making widespread deployment easier to justify. The solutions also provide a rich source of data that can be used to monitor and manage properties, as well as improve residents’ services and wellbeing.

Examples of smart housing solutions include:

• Monitoring building environments to identify issues such as heating, damp, or air quality problems.
• Completing and providing an audit trail for compliance checks, including those introduced under Awaab’s Law, such as mould, emergency lighting, lifts, radon, and water temperature.
• Alerting to any faults or emerging issues with building management systems and services.
• Speeding up the re-letting process by detecting property vacancies.
• Improving services for residents by providing information and an easy route to report faults, check accounts, make payments, and more.

Social landlords that provide supported housing can also use smart housing solutions to monitor resident activity and detect when assistance is needed due to a health concern.

Our Services

1. Smart Housing Strategy Development: We produce strategies that help housing providers understand the benefits smart building solutions can offer their organisation and how they can be implemented.
2. Smart Housing Benefits Evaluation: Our economists work with housing providers to measure and report on the impact of smart housing solutions. This service compares the existing delivery model across a range of use cases with the smart solution approach to identify cost savings, cost avoidance, and other efficiency gains. Qualitative benefits, such as increased resident satisfaction, are also captured. The benefits evaluation uses real-life data collected from your smart housing solution deployment or trial to provide an evidence-based demonstration of the benefits delivered. Clients have used this FarrPoint service to measure the success of pilot deployments and to develop a business case for investing in wider technology implementation.

Design Smarter, Safer Homes With Expert Consultants

Whether you are in the early stages of smart housing solution planning or are looking to scale up, get in touch with our team for a discussion. FarrPoint offers a bespoke and pragmatic approach to guide you toward success.

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