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

2019冠状病毒病对我们使用住房的方式产生了巨大影响，在社会住房的背景下，这给居民和房东带来了许多挑战。人们在自己家里的时间比以往任何时候都多，导致房屋年久失修的程度更高。与此同时，由于社会距离的要求，房东修理房产既困难又昂贵，而且由于更广泛的财务影响，房东面临着更高水平的租金拖欠。由于该行业出台了新的立法，寻找更明智的方法来改善住房质量的需求变得更加迫切。2018年12月20日，《2018年住宅（适宜人类居住）法案》获得王室批准。该法案得到了政界人士以及房地产行业知名人士的广泛支持。Switchee将设计并认证一种传感器，该传感器包括二氧化碳、挥发性有机化合物（VOC）、温度、光线和湿度监测仪，可以低成本部署到社会住房中，并通过GSM（蜂窝）网络进行通信。传感器将通过新的Switchee Econa家庭中心进行通信。Switchee还将开发一个FFHH房东可访问的SaaS门户和相关的复杂专有数据算法。这些专用算法将对财产的当前和未来预测状态进行评估，以符合FFHH法案。

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.