SPACES & SAFETY / SOCIAL HOUSING
Damp and mould monitoring
Catch the conditions that grow mould, not the mould
Damp and mould in housing is now a legal timetable, not a maintenance preference. Awaab's Law sets binding deadlines for investigating and fixing hazards once a landlord is aware of them, and the whole system still depends on a tenant noticing, reporting, and being believed. By then the mould is established, the remediation is a full strip and treat, and the dispute is about whether the landlord acted. The physics is not mysterious: mould grows where surfaces stay cool and relative humidity stays high for sustained periods. That is a measurable condition, weeks before there is anything visible on a wall, and almost no landlord measures it.
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The difference
Damp and mould monitoring: what changes the day it goes live
Damp and mould in housing is now a legal timetable, not a maintenance preference. Awaab's Law sets binding deadlines for investigating and fixing hazards once a landlord is aware of them, and the whole system still depends on a tenant noticing, reporting, and being believed. By then the mould is established, the remediation is a full strip and treat, and the dispute is about whether the landlord acted. The physics is not mysterious: mould grows where surfaces stay cool and relative humidity stays high for sustained periods. That is a measurable condition, weeks before there is anything visible on a wall, and almost no landlord measures it.
- Temperature and relative humidity per property, so the combination that grows mould is visible as a trend rather than waiting on a tenant report
- Early intervention while the fix is still ventilation advice or an extract fan repair, instead of a full strip, treat and redecorate
- A timestamped record of conditions and of when you acted, which is exactly what an Awaab's Law timescale or an Ombudsman complaint turns on
- Stock-level insight showing which properties and which archetypes actually run at risk, so capital works go where the problem is
What you get
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Temperature and relative humidity per property, so the combination that grows mould is visible as a trend rather than waiting on a tenant report
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Early intervention while the fix is still ventilation advice or an extract fan repair, instead of a full strip, treat and redecorate
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A timestamped record of conditions and of when you acted, which is exactly what an Awaab's Law timescale or an Ombudsman complaint turns on
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Stock-level insight showing which properties and which archetypes actually run at risk, so capital works go where the problem is
The full stack, applied here
All five layers, one accountable system
Every Indiott build runs all five layers as one accountable system. Follow a single live signal from the sensor that catches it to the report that proves it.
Turnkey LoRaWAN and industrial sensors read the physical world at the edge, on battery, without rewiring the site.
Hands a reading to CONNECT ↓
Gateways, industrial routers and serial device servers carry every reading back over LoRaWAN, 4G, 5G, Ethernet or satellite, so the far edge reports as reliably as the plant room.
Hands a signed stream to SECURE ↓
OT security by design: managed switching, VPN and firewall routers, protocol gateways and hardware data diodes keep the network segmented and the data tamper-evident to IEC 62443.
Hands a trusted stream to CONTROL ↓
When you want the system to act, remote IO, wireless valves and the bespoke Indiott Engineering line close the loop, dose, switch, isolate or interlock, with no human in the middle.
Hands an action to MANAGE ↓
The software layer turns it into decisions: live dashboards, mapping, alarming and analytics, with one-tap reports and clean feeds into your SCADA, BMS or existing platform.
The loop is closed ✓
How teams start
From a single pilot to the whole portfolio
You do not boil the ocean. Nearly every rollout runs the same four moves, and you own a working, evidenced result at the end of the first one.
Scope & risk map
We walk the sites, list the assets and pin the one constraint that matters, then agree what a good result looks like before a single sensor is bought.
Pilot on one site
A focused set of sensors goes onto one site or asset group, live on our telemetry and dashboards, wired to the people who need the alert.
Validate & standardise
We tune thresholds, kill false positives, confirm the integration into your SCADA, BMS or CAFM, and write the standard design down so it repeats.
Scale the portfolio
The proven design rolls out across the estate, reusing the same hardware standards and data models so every site reads the same way.
The damp and mould monitoring kit we deploy
Full catalogue
Urban.io Activity Sensor
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Urban.io Ambient Temperature Sensor
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Urban.io Battery Test Sensor
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Urban.io Current Sensor
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Urban.io Delta Pressure Sensor
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Urban.io Gateway
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Urban.io Humidity Sensor
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Urban.io Light Sensor
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| Model | Key specification | Price ex VAT | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban.io Activity Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Ambient Temperature Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Battery Test Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Current Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Delta Pressure Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Gateway | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Humidity Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Light Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
Brands in this kit: Urban.io
Why Indiott
A specialist stack, not a box-shifter
Brand-agnostic by design
We pick the best of each brand for the layer and the environment, not one vendor catalogue. Milesight, AquaIoT, Atop, Browan, SpecSens and Urban.io, chosen on merit.
The whole stack, one supplier
Sensing, connectivity, OT security, control and the dashboard come from one accountable team, so there is no finger-pointing when something needs to talk to something else.
Specified and supported in Britain
UK-based engineers scope the site, quote the kit and stand behind it, with compliance mapped to the regimes your auditors actually cite.
Honest kit, honest pricing
Prices are shown where we can, quoted fast where we cannot, and you get a straight answer and a bill of materials within one working day.
DEPLOYED IN THE FIELD
Compliance this answers to
| Standard | What it requires |
|---|---|
| Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, "Awaab's Law" | binding timescales to investigate and remedy prescribed hazards once the landlord is aware, so evidence of when conditions arose matters |
| Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) | damp and mould growth is a Category 1 hazard, assessed on likelihood and harm |
| Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 | freedom from damp is part of the fitness standard for the duration of a tenancy |
| Decent Homes Standard | condition evidence supports stock-condition reporting and planned investment cases |
What it costs, roughly
Two sensors per property with a gateway shared across a block puts a monitored home in the low tens of pounds per property per year at scale, which is a small fraction of a single mould remediation, let alone a disrepair claim. We scope by block rather than by property because the gateway economics only work that way, and we will tell you honestly where a scheme is too dispersed to justify it.
Damp and mould monitoring: asked before buying
Is this surveillance of tenants?
No, and it is worth being firm about this. These sensors measure air temperature and relative humidity. They contain no microphone, no camera and no motion sensing, and they cannot identify a person or tell you whether anyone is home. We would recommend telling tenants exactly what is fitted and why, because the honest version is genuinely reassuring and consent conversations go better when the answer is this simple.
Does a humidity reading prove there is mould?
No, and anyone claiming otherwise is overselling. What it proves is that the conditions which allow mould growth were present, for how long, and in which room. That is a leading indicator and a strong evidence base for prioritising an inspection. The inspection still confirms the hazard. Used properly this tells you which doors to knock on first, rather than replacing the surveyor.
What about condensation caused by how a property is heated and ventilated?
The data usually clarifies that argument rather than inflaming it. A property that runs cold and humid across a whole winter looks quite different from one that spikes after a shower and recovers within the hour. The first points at fabric, heating cost or ventilation capacity; the second points at usage. Both are actionable, and having the trend removes a lot of the blame that currently attaches to these disputes.
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