Questions for housing managers:
What leaks the most often in houses? What are you most concerned about getting switched off? Are smoke alarms a pain in the bum or a solved problem? What complaints might you need to disprove with data?
Inspired by Rosie Wills post on unexpected kitchen mould; we're thinking of doing a "show home" for REMOTE condition monitoring and would love to know what keeps you up at night or keeps your maintenance teams busy. :-)
Some starters for ten:
Sensing room temperature / humidity - check for obvious under/over heating and under/over ventilation. Tucked into wall cavities and roof spaces they can also check for leaks and...horticultural activities.
Sensing smoke/fire - smoke/fire detectors with tamper detect, automagical self test, and remote reporting of results (and smoke/fire!) are available
Sensing water - leak sensors can tell you if there's water under kitchen units/baths or in overflow sumps etc
Sensing electricity - sensors that tell you when the power is on or off can monitor ventilation fans, boiler pumps, fridge freezers etc
Occupancy - sensors for did grandma use the kitchen today (and when) without being as intrusive as a full blown camera from a privacy perspective
Sensing door/window opening - can be used to monitor building entry/exit and purge ventilation activities
Sensing CO2 / VOCs / radon / sound / occupancy - more sophisticated room sensors can dig into what's inside the air to give more detail on ventilation and room usage
Measuring utilities - water, electricity, heating etc can all be measured with utility meters and the data sent remotely. Potentially enough to reduce onsite legionella checks.
Switching electricity - insurance "blackboxes" (exactly same as you see in the car insurance industry) can be used to remotely shut down / engineer a failure on boilers or the immersion heaters in unvented cylinders that have passed their inspection dates and an inspection hasn't been booked.
What does your team worry about, spend far too much time checking, or generally find out about too late?
Our core business is (wireless) utility metering in apartment buildings; but the same tech is equally well suited to sensing and we would like to explore this market.
Tom Vosper Ian Hextall Andrew Walker Mary Harvey (MAAT) et al if you wouldn't mind circulating to the appropriate colleagues that would be grand. :-)