Damp and mould monitoring sensors, designed and built for you.
We design and build temperature and humidity sensors for damp and mould monitoring in homes, with the firmware, radio link and cloud pipeline that collect the readings. Behind it sits our battery-powered LoRaWAN node, designed from the schematic up and now running as one trial unit.
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The problem
Awaab's Law concerns how social landlords respond to damp and mould. A record of temperature and humidity in a home, kept before and after a report, is the kind of evidence a landlord may want to hold, and dew point can be worked out from those two readings. The hard part is the device. It sits in a tenant's home for a long time, so it has to be small, run on a battery and keep reporting without a visit. Housing stock is also varied, from flats in tall blocks to terraced houses, so radio coverage has to be looked at property type by property type. We would design for that variety, with every reading landing in one place. Tenants live with the device, so its size and appearance matter as much as its readings.
What we'd build
Room sensors for temperature and humidity, with firmware, radio and cloud
A small battery-powered sensor reporting temperature and humidity from inside a home, with the wireless link and data store behind it. This is what we would build for you, not a product already in homes. The first questions would be which property types you manage and how readings should be grouped by home and room.
| Layer | What we'd do | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Sensing board | A custom board with temperature and relative humidity sensing, a low-power radio module and a battery. Size and tamper resistance would be agreed with you. | Sensor placement inside the board, how heat from the board itself is kept away from the readings, and battery access |
| Firmware | Sleep between readings and report on an interval you choose. Whether a mould risk figure is worked out on the device or in the cloud would be a design decision for the project. | On our node: RAK3172 module (STM32WL), battery powered with an STC3100 fuel gauge |
| Radio | LoRaWAN, NB-IoT or BLE, chosen for the property types you manage and the gateway coverage available. | Gateway coverage across flats and houses, and what happens to readings when a unit is out of range |
| Cloud | A telemetry database holding readings by property and room, with alerts and history shaped to how your housing team works. | Which property and room each unit belongs to, who is alerted and what history your team needs on screen |
| Mechanical | The housing and fixing of a sensor in a home, scoped with you at the start. | Wall or shelf fixing, appearance in a living room or bedroom and how a unit is protected from being moved |
How working with us goes
- 01 Scope We agree what has to be built, where it lives and where the data goes.
- 02 Prototype Working hardware and firmware on your bench, tested against real conditions.
- 03 Pilot A small batch on real sites, with fixes folded back into the design.
- 04 Production Design for manufacture, a production run, and support once it is in the field.
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