CoControl's Connected Homes Platform - Bridging the landlord-tenant divide for the Social Housing Sector

CoControl 的互联家居平台 - 弥合社会住房领域的房东与租户之间的鸿沟

• 批准号: 133467
• 金额: $ 8.73万
• 依托单位: COCONTROL LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=133467
• 关键词: CoControl; Connected; Homes; Platform; Bridging

"CoControl's Connected Homes Platform has a completely different approach to where the key ""value add"" is focussed when smart thermostats are installed in the social housing sector. Rather than the focus being purely the collection of energy savings achieved by individual tenants where the smart thermostats are installed, the real value add is to bridge the landlord-tenant divide so that the incentives for efficient use of heat energy and long-term maintenance of the housing asset are aligned.The real-time internal temperature, energy use, and humidity data needed to optimise the tenant's heating control are the cornerstone of what the social landlord needs to monitor the condition of their housing assets, and to plan both their short-term maintenance schedules and their long-term strategic asset management budgets. Until now this data has not been available and landlords have had to rely on poor and outdated proxies for the data such as Energy Performance Certificated. This project will demonstrate how CoControl cannot only provide the benefits to the tenants seen in products such as Nest and Hive, but crucially for this sector where there has been no penetration for installs, how the Landlord can realise the benefits from smart thermostats and hence bridge the landlord-tenant divide that currently is preventing installs taking place.CoControl has worked with 7 social landlords to tailor our product line to the social housing space, with live trials already having demonstrated demand and technical viability. The financial burden on the UK's 8.79m social housing tenants has recently increased due to benefit cuts and reduced rent protection schemes. 43% live in poverty and struggle to balance food and rent with increasingly expensive gas and electricity (JRF, Guardian, DBEIS). Further, social landlords face new 'duty of care' legislation, increasing well-being standards -- in spite of severely decreasing funding: we are 2yrs into a 5yr cycle which has the effect of cutting Social Landlord rent income 12% net of previous forecasts (2015 Summer Budget). In response, CoControl has developed its ""Connected Homes Platform"" an open architecture intelligent, cloud based heating controls, built to minimise tenant energy usage and cost, and empower landlords -- our customers -- to invest their £7.1bn annual maintenance expenditure most effectively. This grant provides a critical proof of the benefits that both the Landlord and the tenant can derive from CoControl's energy system product which will take the software as a service product to commercial readiness."

“CoControl的互联家庭平台有一个完全不同的方法，当智能恒温器安装在社会住房部门时，关键的““增值””是集中在哪里。与单纯关注安装智能恒温器的单个租户所实现的节能相比，真实的增值是弥合房东-租户之间的鸿沟，从而使有效利用热能和长期维护房屋资产的激励措施保持一致。实时内部温度、能源使用、优化租户供暖控制所需的湿度数据是社会房东监控其房屋资产状况所需的基石，并规划其短期维护计划和长期战略资产管理预算。到目前为止，这些数据还不可用，房东不得不依赖糟糕和过时的数据代理，如能源性能认证。该项目将展示CoControl如何不仅为Nest和Hive等产品中的租户提供好处，而且对于这个尚未渗透安装的行业至关重要，房东如何实现智能恒温器的好处，从而为房东搭建桥梁-目前，租户分割正在阻止安装发生。CoControl已与7个社会房东合作，为社会住房定制我们的产品线实际试验已经证明了需求和技术可行性。由于福利削减和租金保护计划的减少，英国879万社会住房租户的经济负担最近有所增加。43%的人生活在贫困中，努力平衡食物和租金与日益昂贵的天然气和电力（JRF，Guardian，DBEI）。此外，社会房东面临新的“照顾义务”立法，提高福利标准-尽管资金严重减少：我们是2年进入5年周期，其影响是将社会房东租金收入减少12%，低于先前的预测（2015年夏季预算）。作为回应，CoControl开发了其“互联家庭平台”，这是一个开放式架构的智能，基于云的供暖控制，旨在最大限度地减少租户的能源使用和成本，并使房东-我们的客户-能够最有效地投资其71亿英镑的年度维护支出。这笔赠款提供了一个重要的证据，证明业主和租户都可以从CoControl的能源系统产品中获得好处，该产品将软件作为一种服务产品，以达到商业准备状态。"