Quarterly fire door inspections are the minimum. Continuous monitoring is the answer.

We build bespoke IoT door sensors that monitor fire door status 24/7. Hold-open detection, self-closer verification, real-time alerts. Built for housing associations, property managers, and fire safety companies.

A propped-open fire door kills. A quarterly inspection finds it three months too late.

The Fire Safety Act requires quarterly fire door inspections for buildings over 11 metres. But between inspections, doors get propped open, self-closers fail, and seals degrade — with nobody knowing until the next manual check. IoT sensors turn a quarterly snapshot into continuous, defensible monitoring. You know the moment a door is compromised, not three months later.

The problem

Buildings over 11 metres require quarterly fire door inspections under the Fire Safety Act. Manual inspections are expensive, time-consuming, and only capture a point-in-time snapshot. Doors propped open between inspections remain undetected.

What we build

Wireless door status sensors on every fire door. Continuous monitoring with instant alerts when a door is held open, a self-closer fails, or a door is left ajar beyond a threshold.

Outcomes

  • 24/7 fire door status monitoring
  • Instant alerts for held-open or failed-closer doors
  • Automated inspection logs for Fire Safety Act compliance
  • Reduced manual inspection burden
  • Defensible digital records for fire risk assessors
UK — Fire Safety Act (Quarterly Inspections)

The problem

Buildings over 11 metres require quarterly fire door inspections under the Fire Safety Act. Manual inspections are expensive, time-consuming, and only capture a point-in-time snapshot. Doors propped open between inspections remain undetected.

What we build

Wireless door status sensors on every fire door. Continuous monitoring with instant alerts when a door is held open, a self-closer fails, or a door is left ajar beyond a threshold.

Outcomes

  • 24/7 fire door status monitoring
  • Instant alerts for held-open or failed-closer doors
  • Automated inspection logs for Fire Safety Act compliance
  • Reduced manual inspection burden
  • Defensible digital records for fire risk assessors
US — NFPA 80 (Annual Inspections)

The problem

NFPA 80 requires annual fire door inspections by qualified personnel. Healthcare facilities face Joint Commission audits. Failure risks certificate of occupancy revocation. Manual annual inspection catches problems once a year.

What we build

Continuous door monitoring between annual inspections. Dashboard designed for Joint Commission and AHJ reporting requirements.

Outcomes

  • NFPA 80 compliance support between annual inspections
  • Joint Commission survey readiness
  • Certificate of occupancy risk reduction
  • Automated deficiency detection and alerting
EU — National Fire Codes (IT / ES / FR)

The problem

Italy requires 6-monthly inspections (DM 3 agosto 2015). Spain mandates quarterly inspections via RIPCI (RD 513/2017). France requires 6-monthly DAS checks plus annual technical inspection. Zero IoT competitors exist in any of these markets.

What we build

Same sensor hardware, localised compliance dashboards per national fire code. First-mover advantage in three markets with mandatory inspections and no existing IoT solution.

Outcomes

  • Continuous monitoring between mandatory inspections
  • Localised reports per national fire code
  • First-mover advantage — no IoT competitors in IT/ES/FR
  • Multi-site portfolio dashboard
  • Automated registre de sécurité logging (FR)

We build the full monitoring system. You protect the building.

Door Status Sensors

Compact wireless sensors that detect door position, hold-open events, and self-closer function. Battery-powered, non-invasive installation.

  • Magnetic reed switch + accelerometer
  • Detects open/closed, held-open, slam events
  • Battery life 3–5 years
  • Non-invasive mount — no door modification

Device Firmware

Embedded software that distinguishes normal use from safety-critical events — smart thresholds, edge alerting, OTA updates.

  • Configurable hold-open timeout thresholds
  • Edge-processed event classification
  • OTA firmware updates
  • Low-power operation with event-driven wake

Fire Door Compliance Dashboard

Powered by Paqett. Building-level and portfolio-level views. Real-time door status, event history, automated compliance reports.

  • Live status per fire door
  • Event timeline — openings, hold-opens, closures
  • Automated compliance report generation
  • Alert configuration (email, SMS, webhook)
  • White-label ready

Pilot & Rollout Support

Start with one building. Prove the system works with real fire doors, then scale across the portfolio.

  • Pilot deployment in representative building
  • Installer documentation and training
  • Ongoing platform hosting and maintenance
  • Hardware iteration based on field data

Powered by Paqett

Every solution runs on Paqett — our IoT device management platform. Real-time dashboards, event-driven alerting, OTA updates, and compliance reporting. Production-grade backend for building safety.

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Built with

Sensors Reed switches/MEMS accelerometers/Hall effect sensors
MCUs nRF52/ESP32-C3/STM32
Connectivity BLE/LoRa / LoRaWAN/NB-IoT/MQTT
Cloud AWS IoT Core/PostgreSQL/Paqett Platform

Former Amazon Robotics. BEng + MSc Robotics. One engineer who owns your project end-to-end — no committees, no layers.

MIETBEng LoughboroughMSc Robotics BristolEx-Amazon Robotics

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