A lightweight IoT sensor deployment that continuously measures temperature, humidity, and tenant occupancy — detecting cold and damp homes before complaints form, and producing independent evidence your team can act on and your funders can rely on.
Verity is a lightweight, software backed, hardware built, sensor-based IoT building performance platform for social housing. It deploys into Tenant occupied homes without an electrician, without a consent process, and without disruption to tenants — and from that point, it monitors and measures continuously.
Temperature. Humidity. Occupancy. Three signals that together tell you far more about a home than an annual inspection ever can. A home that is cold, damp, and occupied is a welfare risk. Verity IoT sensors surface that wellbeing risk before it becomes a complaint.
“Nobody knows which homes are actually cold between annual inspections. Verity changes that.”
Continuous indoor temperature monitoring flagged against the WHO 18°C health minimum — across every room where a sensor is placed.
Relative humidity tracked against the 70% threshold at which mould risk increases — surfaced per property, per period.
Passive infrared detection that confirms whether a cold or damp home is occupied — turning a maintenance signal into a welfare one.
Multiple sensors across a property reveal temperature gaps between rooms — a pattern consistent with fuel poverty welfare that a single sensor cannot detect.
Most welfare risks in social housing are identified after the fact — after a complaint, after a welfare case is opened, after the regulator asks. Verity is designed to work the other way round.
Sensors are installed quickly and without disruption. From that point, every connected home is monitored continuously. Flags appear when monitoring conditions change — not when your next scheduled visit is due.
Sensors are placed in the rooms where damp and cold are most likely to occur and most likely to go undetected — monitoring utility rooms, bathrooms, hallways, and bedrooms. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. No drilling, no wiring.
Living room, bedroom, bathroom, utility or laundry room, hallway. Placement agreed with your team based on property type and the welfare signals you need most.
Battery-powered. No mains connection, no electrician, no disruption. A single gateway connects wirelessly and transmits data securely. Under an hour per property.
Environmental data only. No cameras, no audio, no personal data. Aggregated at property level and transmitted securely — your team sees conditions, not behaviour.
Verity turns continuous sensor readings into structured, evidenced software reporting — Tenant wellbeing ranked by risk, ready for your resident services team, Property data in real time and formatted for funder submissions and RSH consumer standards reporting.
Building Performance Evaluation under BS 40101 requires the organisation producing the evidence to be independent from the retrofit delivery chain. Tricity Labs has no retrofit delivery arm, no supply relationship, and no financial interest in what the evidence recommends.
That makes Verity’s evidence structurally independent — defensible at funder audit, at RSH inspection, and in any dispute over property conditions or retrofit performance.
✅ Most platforms in this space cannot say the same. Structural independence is a design decision, not a policy position.
✅ The reason why we can be trusted as an independent IoT monitoring system for social housing providers and Housing Associations.
Tricity Labs does not install, design, or commission retrofit works. It has no financial interest in what the evidence recommends.
Verity surfaces what was measured: temperature, humidity, occupancy, conditions, dates. The inference is yours. The evidence is ours.
Excess cold is one of seven hazard categories under Awaab’s Law Phase 2 (enforcement 30 November 2026). Verity produces that evidence continuously.
A short conversation is enough to scope the right pilot for your Housing Association portfolio — cohort size, property type, and what evidence you most need to produce.
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