Safety & Regulation
Smoke & Fire Protection Feature
The activation of a connected cloud- based gateway allows instant remote real time monitoring of Smart RF smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms, enabling social housing providers to achieve full traceability, audit, and compliance management across an entire housing portfolio
Through the use of a connected gateway, providers can also activate instant
access to vital information including alarm diagnostics for every alarm across the network to ensure 24/7 legislative compliance. Properties can also be futureproofed against potential regulatory changes with systems that offer the ability to be adapted at a later date to meet a change in resident risk, which may require enhanced safety systems. The ability to view the performance of each alarm in real time also aids
proactive asset maintenance as social landlords can adopt a targeted approach to the application of resources, subsequently simplifying fire risk management. Providers can have instant access to vital information from every alarm across each property, including current status, alarm history, replacement dates and network health. Systems like this also deliver complete freedom to accommodate a hybrid
network, which support the specification of mains and battery powered alarms in the same property. This optimises the utilisation of existing wiring for mains alarms, while the ease of installation of battery powered alarms offers
cost and resource savings by reducing the amount of time a contractor spends inside the property.
INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS As connected technology continues to pave the way for fire safety, social housing providers can benefit from IOT and connected fire safety technologies which use AI to bridge the gap in communication between a property and its residents. Latest research by the Local Government Association (LGA) found that over 100,000 affordable homes will need to be constructed each year as part of the national recovery from the virus, and the ‘new generation’ of social housing aims to provide residents with affordable, high quality homes that are fit for purpose. The social housing sector has the opportunity to take an alternative approach
to the fire safety installed within future properties by procuring intelligent connected solutions that offer the ability to be cost-effectively upgraded and adapted at a later date to meet the individual needs of each resident. This can be achieved by utilising a connected fire safety system that features such technologies. An AI driven approach can provide automatic stratification of risk across an
entire housing stock, saving providers valuable time and money, while also ensuring compliance with current and future legislation to deliver residents with the highest levels of fire and CO protection. As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to have a significant impact on the
social housing sector, not only nationally but globally, social housing providers should take an alternative approach to the provision of fire safety solutions to successfully streamline their asset management through the facilitation of remote real time monitoring.
Nick Rutter is Chief Product Officer at FireAngel Safety Technology. 44 | HMM October/November 2020 |
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