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social housing sector.The idea is to help social landlords both tackle fuel poverty amongst their residents and as part of their social
remit, and to provide a scalable technology solution for managing their properties
This includes something akin to an early warning system for common housing stock maintenance issues, such as mould, poor insulation, or a
Capital and Joseph Rowntree Foundation
an early stage energy fund backed by Lietuvos Energija (the largest energy provider in the Baltics), and AU Capital Partners, a VC fund
focused on the U.K.-India corridor and investing in technology companies in IOT, Smart Cities and fintech
co-founder Ian Napier tells TechCrunch
For landlords, the poor or non-existent data about their housing stock and resultant maintenance and repair inefficiencies
This is something Napier says the startup has routinely debated internally but decided that to deliver a smart thermostat that truly fits
the needs of social landlords, it was necessary to be fully vertically integrated, with bespoke hardware working in tandem with the Switchee
cloud service and landlord analytics.And that seems to be working out quite well so far
Following two years of commercial pilots, including successfully deploying Switchee on a national scale last winter, the company says it is
We also sell access to our landlord SaaS dashboard which aggregates sensory data from Switchee thermostats and presents housing management
These data insights allow landlords to better understand and manage their large housing portfolios, and the communities they house, more
how quickly it heats and cools
But we hope residents will love our technology and use it
displaying a range of welfare and maintenance KPIs and alerts such as mould risk, poor insulation, fuel poverty risk and boiler performance
In this instance, to combat fuel poverty and to help social landlords care for properties and communities more effectively
We can suggest convenient times for engineer, repair or other house visits
