For the past six years, Coastline Housing has been a part of the Smartline Project.
In the UK, including here in Cornwall, there are persistent and overlapping inequalities in health, housing and digital inclusion. The Smartline Project set out to explore the role that digital technologies could play to support health and wellbeing through improved housing and social connections.
There is lots of evidence that housing affects people’s health and most people spend the vast majority of time indoors.
Through the Smartline project we’ve found that sensors provide reliable data on a range of indicators such as temperature and humidity over a long period of time. This helps organisations such as housing associations to understand issues affecting the building fabric and target support for residents. For example, a sudden drop in temperature might indicate an issue with energy affordability or a spike in humidity may show that windows are broken.
We have attended numerous events around the country, including the recent National Housing Technology Conference, sharing the work and insights from this project so that more organisations and customers might benefit.
You can find out more about Smartline and the project outcomes by watching the video below.