Brighton & Hove City Council 

The project will allow the council to fully assess the effects of building improvement works by using enLink Zone sensors to measure temperature and humidity levels before, during and after the work. In addition, the data is available to the residents via a mobile app, allowing them to see temperature and humidity levels inside and outside their dwellings. As many of the residents are elderly and some have disabilities, the system can generate alerts if the residents are unable to effectively maintain temperature and humidity levels within their homes as this presents significant health risks:

• Black mould is the result of high humidity over an extended period and is associated with respiratory illness and chronic fatigue.
• Where a property is occupied, unusually low temperatures ( < 18°C ) over a period can be an early warning sign of fuel poverty.
• Sustained temperatures of below 16°C are associated with increased vulnerability to infection in the over 60 age group.
  Alerts can be triggered and sent to the property management team or a care visitor via email or Skype® message depending on urgency.

All data is clearly presented within the Synetica enLink IoT platform, which also provides data to a custom mobile app developed by the council’s Digital First division. The app not only displays the resident’s temperature and humidity data, but also suggests changes such as opening a window when humidity get too high for a period.