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L&Q has opened discussions with technology companies about how their products could help the giant housing associations to manage its estates as part of a forthcoming tech strategy.
AIM-listed Photonstar, which provides lighting products and cloud-based building management services, announced to the stock exchange this morning that it had entered into “partnership” with an unnamed association, understood to be the housing association, L&Q.
However, L&Q said it had only invited Photonstar to undertake “early trials” and had not yet agreed a partnership.
The association, which manages more than 90,000 homes in England, is working on new strategies for using technology to manage its estates, with further announcements expected next year.
L&Q will trial Photonstar’s products and services to assess their potential to enhance safety and the ability of the association to remotely manage sites.
It is understood similar trials with other companies are ongoing.
According to a stock market release by Photonstar, the “main applications that will be assessed for estate management by the association are energy monitoring, critical assets monitoring (including heating and cooling), emergency lighting remote testing (including compliance reporting), temperature monitoring of water systems to reduce legionella risk (including compliance reporting) and general environmental monitoring.”
James McKenzie, chief executive of Photonstar, said: “The opportunity to work with L&Q as part of their smart estates vision is one we are very pleased to be part of. I look forward to providing further updates regarding the partnership in due course.”
An L&Q spokesperson said: “Photonstar is one of several market-leading businesses that L&Q is working with to test new and innovative ways of managing our homes. We are interested to see how these early trials enable us to become better, faster and lower cost in the way we deliver services to our customers and their homes.”