One of Europe’s
leading manufacturers of home safety products, FireAngel, has secured an
exclusive partnership with national housing and service provider, Mears Group,
to provide tenants with a bespoke connected home management system.
With Mears
responsible for the maintenance, repair and upgrade of over 700,000 social
housing properties across the UK, the new relationship will see FireAngel
supply Mears and its clients with an integrated connected home management
system using FireAngel’s Wi Safe 2 interlink technology to connect FireAngel’s
Wi Safe 2 smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms to a cloud-based system for
remote monitoring.
FireAngel Connect
has been developed to enable continuous monitoring of appliances and smart
devices within domestic properties via a central, cloud based system. This
allows Mears to monitor and manage FireAngel smoke, heat and CO alarms remotely
and tenants to review important fire and safety information relating to their
property.
The system is
accessed via a wall mounted touchscreen tablet and will enable Mears’ clients
to streamline maintenance management processes by facilitating direct
interaction with tenants when seeking to arrange repairs and maintenance
visits. Alongside FireAngel’s Wi-Safe 2 network, the System utilises Z-Wave
wireless communication technology, providing the potential for the System in
future to connect with other devices and offer additional functionality.
David Miles, Chief
Executive of Mears, commented: “We are very pleased to have signed this
partnership agreement with FireAngel. There are real safety, commercial and
financial benefits to optimising our interaction with tenants and reducing the
number of unanswered visits from our maintenance teams. We are witnessing
a transition to integrated technologies and the FireAngel system will enable us
to centralise those technologies into one central hub. We look forward to
introducing the FireAngel solution to our clients across the footprint.”
The system will also
feature FireAngel’s unique, patent pending, predictive algorithm technology,
FireAngel Predict®, which uses cloud-based technology alongside predictive
algorithms and data from homes to identify properties with an increased risk of
fire in real time.
Neil Smith, Chief
Executive of FireAngel, commented: “Following significant R&D investment, I
am pleased to announce our collaboration with Mears, which takes our smart,
connected and existing products into the heart of the UK social housing sector.
By integrating our technological expertise into our Mears’ solution, we believe
that FireAngel can significantly enhance the quality of service and support
through a range of connected safety monitoring devices for housing tenants
across the UK.
