Switchee and Cotality have announced a new partnership that will combine real-time property data with energy efficiency modelling to help social landlords target investment across their housing stock.
The collaboration will connect Switchee’s live environmental monitoring data with Cotality’s Portfolio platform through a new API integration.
The companies said the initiative is designed to help housing providers identify issues such as damp, mould and heating inefficiencies, while supporting wider social housing retrofit programmes.
The integration will initially be rolled out across two shared customers managing a combined 45,000 properties in the coming weeks.
Cotality’s Portfolio platform is already used by landlords to manage and model the energy efficiency of more than 2 million homes across the UK. By combining real-time in-home data with energy performance and risk modelling, the partners say housing providers will be able to make more informed decisions about where to prioritise investment and how to improve resident outcomes.
“At Switchee, our core mission is to improve the quality of life for residents through data innovation,” said Leigh Fairbrother, head of sales at Switchee.
“We already know what is happening inside the home in real-time. By feeding this live data directly to Cotality via our Open API, we are expanding our offering to give landlords actionable, strategic advice. In doing so, we are able to validate both modelled performance and resident experience.
“This removes the guesswork from retrofit planning, enables providers to model the impact of our smart thermostats across their portfolio, and glean greater value from both platforms.”
The partnership is intended to provide housing providers with a more complete picture of property performance, helping them direct resources towards homes most in need of intervention.
“This partnership is about turning real-time data into long-term strategic action through seamless technical integration,” said Russell Smith, director of energy at Cotality.
“By ingesting Switchee’s live property insights into our Portfolio platform, we can layer that information against our robust climate, health risk, and RdSAP+ modelling engines. It gives asset managers a single source of truth, enabling them to confidently target resources and build highly accurate, fundable schemes that permanently reduce energy bills for tenants.”
The companies said the partnership aims to help social landlords balance resident welfare objectives with the need to manage investment budgets efficiently.
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