Q4 2020 | 19 Internet of Things solutions provider, Homelync and is expanding its footprint in the Connected Home arena. Overall, Aico’s future looks very bright indeed. “We are extremely excited and look forward to continuing innovations and progression.” Contact: Alex Garmston Company: Aico Web Address: www.aico.co.uk Sound The Alarm it presents opportunities and is a way of giving back to the local community. Aico also has a stellar apprenticeship scheme, which was launched back in 2018 with local schools and colleges to engage and encourage students in their future careers. “Almost 20% of internal colleagues are apprentices or have recently completed an apprenticeship and now have long-term career opportunities with Aico,” states Alex. “At Aico, we facilitate and encourage personal development, with over 10% of colleagues promoted from internal positions in the past 18 months. All of the management team have been promoted from within and over 20% of colleagues have been with Aico for 15-25 years.” The covid-19 pandemic may have affected organisations throughout the world, but Alex tells us that Aico remained largely unscathed and that it is very much business as usual. In fact, the biggest challenge the firm faced, and continues to face, in the issue of tenant safety. He highlights: “Whether this relates to high-rise blocks, sheltered accommodation or the private rented sector, the challenge of gaining access to properties is prevalent. Subsequently, resident engagement is imperative to managing and minimising this issue, which provides the basis for our efforts to increase engagement and raise awareness amongst tenants.” Again, education is key here, and Aico has collaborated with Inside Housing, a publication targeted at the UK housing sector, on an initiative to highlight further bounds to resident engagement to collectively find solutions – the Resident Safety Campaign. This campaign ran throughout 2019 in its first phase and will continue during 2020 and beyond for phase two. The Resident Safety Campaign has been submitted for the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Best Partnership award. As innovative as ever, Aico launched a product called SmartLINK Gateway, which provides real time data insight into connected fire and carbon monoxide alarms within a property. It also undertook a major acquisition of leading
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