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Environmental sensors

Alertacall’s environmental sensors help providers take a preventative approach to home maintenance and can help contribute to better physical health and mental wellbeing for customers.

Data is collected hourly, monitoring and highlighting changes in humidity and temperature. It helps indicate problems with damp and mould, poor ventilation or heating failures.

The sensors can also detect excessive heating, which can lead to debt, or underheating due to poor insulation or fuel poverty.

Features

  • Easy to set up
  • Small, discreet sensor
  • Five-year battery life
  • Monitors temperature and humidity
  • No WiFi required
  • Remote monitoring through real-time reporting portal
  • Low service charge and no equipment costs

Benefits for providers

  • Helps comply with the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018
  • Identifies and reduces fuel poverty
  • Identifies damp and mould
  • Reduces costly repair bills through early detection
  • Helps to keep customers safe and well

If you would like to know more please contact us.

What we do

  • Solutions
  • Products and services
  • Optimising staff resources
    Reducing time spent on routine and less productive tasks to enable housing teams to focus on where the needs are greatest
  • Digital Switchover
    Our ‘Beyond Warden Call’ alternative to hard wired alarm systems is easy to install, low cost, compliant and is Digital Switchover ready
  • Avoiding undiscovered deaths
    A 365 day a year ‘check in’ service, with contact centre back up and escalation pathways to avoid a lack of contract going unnoticed
  • Beyond Warden Call
    Easier, simpler and lower-cost ‘warden call’ with a portable touchscreen and self-service.
  • Housing Proactive
    Increase two-way engagement with customers for more effective housing management.
  • OKEachDay
    A service that keeps customers safe, and live independently for longer in their own homes.
  • Repairs reporting
    A free repairs app helps customers request repairs themselves, and accelerates digital engagement.
  • Video door entry
    Full colour, high resolution video giving customers the ability to answer calls and let people into their home without having to leave their chair.
  • WiFi
    Commercial grade WiFi allowing you to move away from costly hardwired systems, promote digital inclusion and future proof your services.
  • Video calling
    Dramatically improve efficiency compared with personal visits with the ability to video call tenants in their own home .
  • Environmental sensors
    Wireless detectors that highlight changes in humidity and temperature, indicating problems with damp and mould, poor ventilation or heating failures.
  • Smoke alarms
    A fire safety solution using wireless multi-sensor smoke alarms with online reporting to track their performance remotely.
  • Digital telecare and wearables
    Digital Switchover ready devices, that include GPS and falls detection, and can be worn both inside and outside of the home.