Effective monitoring of fitness for human habitation standards in UK social housing

新冠肺炎对我们使用住房的方式产生了戏剧性的影响，在社会住房方面，这给居民和房东带来了许多挑战。人们花在自己家里的时间比以往任何时候都多，导致了更高的失修水平。与此同时，由于社会距离的要求，维修物业对业主来说是困难和昂贵的，而由于更广泛的经济影响，业主面临更高的租金拖欠水平。随着该部门引入新的立法，寻找更聪明的方法来改善住房质量的需要变得更加迫切。2018年12月20日，《2018年住房(人类居住健身)法案》获得王室批准。这项法案得到了两党政界人士和住房行业知名人士的广泛支持。斯威奇将设计并认可一种传感器，该传感器包括二氧化碳、挥发性有机化合物(VOC)、温度、光和湿度监测器，可以低成本部署到社会住房物业中，并通过GSM(蜂窝)网络进行通信。传感器将通过新的Switchee Econa家庭集线器进行通信。Switchee还将开发FFHH房东可访问的SaaS门户以及相关的复杂和专有数据算法。这些专门构建的算法将对物业目前和未来的预测状态进行评估，以符合FFHH法案的要求。

Covid-19 has had a dramatic impact on the way we use our homes and in the context of social housing this generates numerous challenges to residents and landlords. People have spent more time in their own homes than ever before, leading to higher levels of disrepair. Meanwhile, repairing properties is difficult and costly for landlords as a result of social distancing requirements, and landlords are facing higher levels of rent arrears due to wider financial impacts.The need to find smarter ways of improving housing quality is made more urgent by the introduction of new legislation to the sector. On the 20th of December 2018 the _Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018_ received royal assent. The bill received widespread bipartisan support from politicians as well as high-profile members of the housing industry.Switchee will design and accredit a sensor that includes CO2, volatile organic compounds (VOC), temperature, light and humidity monitors and that can be deployed at low cost into social housing properties and communicate over the GSM (Cellular) network. The sensor will communicate via the new Switchee Econa home hub.Switchee will also develop a FFHH landlord accessible SaaS portal and associated complex and proprietary data algorithms. These purpose-built algorithms will make an assessment on the property's current and future predicted state with respect to compliance with the FFHH Act.