HMOs · Student lets · Portfolio landlords

Automation that pays for itself on a tenanted property.

Keyless entry per tenant, bounded heating, void-period protection and remote visibility across a portfolio. Built for properties where you pay the bills and someone else adjusts the thermostat.

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The economics of a tenanted property are different from a family home, and so is the specification. Where bills are included — as they usually are in an HMO or a student let — you are paying for heating nobody has any incentive to moderate. Where they are not, you are still carrying the void periods, the lock changes, the key handovers and the call-outs.

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What's included

Per-tenant keyless entry with codes that expire
Contractor and cleaner access on their own schedule
Maximum heating setpoints to cap bills-included waste
Automatic setback in unoccupied rooms and during voids
Open-window heating cut-off
Frost protection with remote alerting
Per-property and per-room energy visibility
Portfolio dashboard across multiple addresses

From £2,200

ex-VAT, supplied, installed & commissioned

Comfort inside sensible bounds. Nothing outside them.

01 · The largest line

Heating nobody is paying for directly

A maximum setpoint stops a property being held at 25°C with a window open. Automatic setback in unoccupied rooms and during voids stops empty bedrooms being heated to the same temperature as occupied ones.

None of it makes tenants cold. It removes the extremes, and it does so without anyone having to police behaviour or send another email about the thermostat.

Maximum setpoints to cap bills-included waste
Setback in unoccupied rooms and during voids
Open-window cut-off on the most common waste
No behaviour policing required from you

Keypad entry beside the door of a let property

02 · The largest time cost

No cutting keys, no lock changes, no midnight call-outs

Per-tenant codes are issued the day a tenancy starts and expire the day it ends. Contractors and cleaners get their own, valid only when they should be there and revocable instantly.

For an HMO with high turnover this alone often justifies the installation, before a single unit of gas is saved.

A code per tenant, expiring with the tenancy
No lock changes between tenancies
Contractor access that switches itself off
Instant revocation when something goes wrong

03 · Across a portfolio

The reason landlords fit the second and third property

Temperature and occupancy visible per property, a frost alert if an empty house drifts toward freezing in January, a notification if heating is running in a room nobody has entered for a fortnight.

Most landlords tell us the portfolio view is what sold them on doing it again — one screen instead of six unanswered questions.

Per-property and per-room energy visibility
Frost alerts before the burst pipe
One dashboard across multiple addresses
Cheaper per property as the portfolio grows

Two compliance points worth flagging

HMOs have specific licensing, fire safety and electrical inspection requirements that vary by council, and automation changes none of them. Your EICR obligations and fire alarm specification are unaffected by anything here.

Any monitoring must respect tenants' right to quiet enjoyment. We do not fit cameras or microphones inside let accommodation, and we would advise disclosing environmental monitoring in the tenancy agreement.

Why it's worth doing properly

Landlord & HMO Automation, done once and done right.

No more lock changes

Codes issue at tenancy start and expire at the end. No key cutting, no lock changes, no midnight lockout call-outs.

Bills-included, bounded

A maximum setpoint stops properties being held at 25°C with the windows open. Comfort stays; the extremes go.

Voids stop costing

Empty properties fall back automatically instead of running the same schedule they did when tenanted.

Frost alerts before the claim

An empty house drifting toward freezing notifies you while it's still a phone call, not a burst-pipe insurance claim.

Cheaper per property at scale

The portfolio view is what landlords keep. Cost per property falls as you add the second and third.

Tenant-appropriate by design

No cameras or microphones inside let accommodation. Environmental monitoring only, disclosed in the tenancy.

Certified installers, never sub-contracted

Same week

Site visit availability across the East Midlands

£0 / mo

No subscription, no cloud fees, ever

12 months

Parts and labour warranty on every install

Works best together

Related services

One Miniserver runs all of it. Most customers combine two or three of these rather than installing them as separate systems.

Holiday lets

Airbnb · Serviced accommodation · Short-term lets

Heating & climate

Zoned heating · Underfloor · Weather compensation

Security & access

Access control · CCTV · Video doorbells · Alarms

FAQ

Landlord & HMO Automation — common questions

How much can automation save on a bills-included HMO?

The savings come from three places: capping the maximum setpoint, setting back unoccupied rooms and voids, and cutting heating when a window is open. On a bills-included property the return is usually strongest, because there is currently no incentive for anyone in the building to moderate use. We would rather monitor a property for a few months and show you the actual figures than quote a percentage that may not apply to your stock.

Can each tenant have their own door code?

Yes, and it is the feature landlords adopt fastest. Each tenant gets a unique code valid for their tenancy dates. No key cutting, no lock changes between tenancies, and no attending the property because someone has lost a key. Codes are revocable instantly if a tenancy ends early.

Can I stop tenants turning the heating up to 25 degrees?

You can set a maximum, yes. We would suggest setting it sensibly rather than restrictively — a cap around 21–22°C removes the genuine waste without making anyone cold, and it tends to avoid disputes. Combining it with open-window cut-off usually does more than the cap alone.

Does this affect my HMO licensing or EICR obligations?

No. HMO licensing, fire safety requirements and periodic electrical inspection obligations are unchanged by anything we install, and they vary by local authority. Our work is notified under Part P and certificated, which forms part of your electrical documentation, but it does not substitute for your statutory duties. Check specifics with your council's HMO licensing team.

Can I monitor tenants?

Not in the sense of watching them, and we would not install anything that allowed it. We do not fit cameras or microphones inside let accommodation. Environmental monitoring — temperature, humidity, whether heating is running — is appropriate and useful, particularly for damp and mould risk, and we would advise disclosing it in the tenancy agreement so it is transparent.

Will it help with damp and mould?

It helps you see the problem, which is the first step. Humidity and temperature logging per room identifies which properties and which rooms are at risk, and can flag conditions before mould appears. Fixing the underlying cause is usually ventilation, insulation or a building fault — monitoring tells you where to look rather than resolving it by itself.

Does it work across several properties?

Yes. Each property runs its own local system, and you get a single portfolio view for status, occupancy, temperature and alerts. Cost per property falls as the portfolio grows, and most landlords who fit one go on to fit others because the visibility turns out to be worth more than the savings.

Where we work

Landlords & HMO across the East Midlands

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