Smarter IoT Solutions

As cities and towns face increasing pressures from population growth, climate targets, budget constraints, and evolving citizen expectations, there is a growing need for smarter, more sustainable approaches to Urban Management. North’s solutions bring together powerful technologies to help tackle these challenges head-on. Solutions that can also be applied to large-scale campus sites, including universities and military bases.

Smart lighting, cities and campuses typically achieve energy savings of up to 50–70% through LED retrofits and adaptive lighting controls, significantly reducing both carbon emissions and operational costs. With street lighting accounting for 20–30% of a local authority’s energy bill, these savings can be immediately redirected toward other public services.

Footfall monitoring offers real-time insights into people movement patterns – critical for shaping high street regeneration strategies, improving safety, and supporting local businesses. In the UK, high streets have seen footfall decline by 20–40% in some areas since 2015, and dynamic data is key to informing place-based economic recovery plans.

Smart waste management solutions, using fill-level sensors and route optimisation, can reduce collection costs by 30–40%, while cutting CO₂ emissions from waste fleets and decreasing complaints about overflowing bins.

Air quality monitoring plays a vital role in public health and compliance with clean air targets. Poor air quality contributes to an estimated 28,000-36,000 premature deaths annually in the UK. Smart sensors enable hyperlocal monitoring, allowing authorities to take targeted action, inform residents, and support active travel or Clean Air Zones.

These smart systems deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and citizen wellbeing. With integrated dashboards, automated alerts, and data-sharing capabilities, our solutions help city leaders and facility managers move from reactive service delivery to a proactive, insight-led model – ensuring that the cities and campuses of tomorrow are not just smarter, but also greener and healthier for all.

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In today’s increasingly regulated world, maintaining compliance with industry standards, legal regulations, and internal policies is more complex than ever. Traditional compliance management is often reliant on manual processes and audits which can be time-consuming, error-prone, and costly. North has developed several smart solutions that can reduce the overhead of carrying out regular physical tests on key regulatory requirements.

Our Compliance Management offering includes the remote validation of emergency lighting operation, fire-door status tracking and water safety monitoring. All these solutions provide a compelling business case for implementation and typically provide a return on investment within the first twelve months.

One of the most significant advantages is the ability to monitor in real-time. Sensor-led devices can continuously collect and transmit data related to environmental conditions, equipment performance, employee safety, and more. This is wholly automated, reducing human error and ensuring accurate, time-stamped and traceable records. Real-time alerts enable organisations to respond immediately to compliance breaches as they arise, minimising damage and avoiding penalties.

Monitoring the health of equipment or machinery means failures can be predicted before they occur. This capability allows for faster maintenance, reducing the risk of non-compliance due to downtime, accidents, or environmental violations.

By analysing compliance data, organisations can gain valuable insights into their operations, helping to inform better strategic decisions. These solutions can also be easily adapted or updated to reflect new or changing regulatory requirements.

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With the global push toward sustainability and rising energy costs, energy optimisation has become a strategic imperative for organisations. Implementing granular energy monitoring solutions can provide substantial insight, allowing organisations to better understand the distribution of energy usage, highlight disparities and set reduction targets that can be monitored in real-time.

Traditional energy audits only provide a snapshot in time. Sensor-led devices enable continuous, real-time energy monitoring across facilities and this granular visibility helps identify when and where energy is being used or, indeed, wasted. This rapid identification of inefficiencies can deliver immediate cost savings.

The ability to collect, harness and analyse massive amounts of energy data is also a huge benefit. It can help organisations set benchmarks and track progress toward sustainability goals, generate energy usage feedback for employees and other stakeholders, predict maintenance and pre-empt malfunctions, and identify long-term trends and opportunities for improvement. Ultimately, this data-driven approach helps organisations to make better informed decisions about their energy consumption.

Organisations can also correlate energy utilisation against building occupancy and environments, allowing them to automate lighting, heating, cooling, and other operational equipment, reducing their overall environmental impact whilst significantly cutting costs at the same time. Automated monitoring, alerts, and reporting can help them demonstrate accountability and reduce the risk of non-compliance penalties.

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North helps Local Authorities, Housing Associations and Social Care providers create safer and more secure environment for their tenants. We make the management of housing simpler and more efficient as well as supporting extended independent living through smart sensor deployment.

Across the UK, providers of social housing face substantial challenges when it comes to the age, quality and condition of their housing stock. Added to this, the sheer number of differing properties they are responsible for means that consistent upkeep, management and maintenance can be problematic.

Poor property conditions, caused mainly by undetected damp and mould, can have serious and long-lasting impacts. Whether that be costly repairs, the increased risk of fines and legal action, or, most importantly, the detrimental effect that it can have on the health and wellbeing of tenants.

North leverages discrete connected devices coupled with extensive domain expertise and a unique AI platform to accurately identify and monitor unhealthy conditions across a large number of properties in a cost-effective way.

Real-time data is captured on a continual basis, tracked against set parameters and presented back via our web-based management platform, with automated alerts allowing you to prioritise and address issues more effectively. Using the same set of sensors, we can also highlight fuel poverty issues and ensure the property is not being left vacant when it shouldn’t be or, indeed, is occupied unexpectedly.

In Assisted Living environments, these solutions can be extended to provide extra support for those who need it most. Be it smart lighting and thermostats that adjust to preferences or schedules, to help those with limited mobility.

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Increasing traffic volumes and new methods of transport are increasing pressures on stretched highway infrastructure. This is alongside the growing impact of climate change which is making flash flood events a more regular occurrence. North’s Highway Management solution ensures authorities have data at their fingertips to improve decision making and better target investment.

Our offering is purpose-built to help local authorities, highway agencies, and infrastructure operators move from reactive to proactive management of road networks.

The solution leverages a suite of advanced sensors and real-time data analytics, providing continuous monitoring across critical infrastructure components. This includes gully monitoring to detect blockages and reduce the risk of flooding, grit bin monitoring to streamline winter operations and avoid stock shortages, road surface temperature monitoring to support precision gritting and reduce environmental impact, and vehicle speed and volume monitoring to improve road safety and inform long-term traffic planning.

The benefits of deploying these solutions are far-reaching and have been proven to drastically reduce the cost of highway and flood management. These cost benefits can be delivered through operational efficiency and improved compliance with national resilience, as well as help local authorities deliver against their sustainability goals.

With automated alerts, real-time dashboards, and integration with existing asset management systems, decision-makers can prioritise interventions, allocate resources more effectively, and ensure a faster response to emerging issues. Ultimately, this solution enables a smarter, safer, and more sustainable approach to highway management – helping to future-proof the UK’s road networks in line with the Government’s ambitions for digital infrastructure and Net Zero.

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As workspaces and public buildings become more dynamic and demand-driven, understanding how space is used has never been more critical. North’s Occupancy Monitoring solutions involve tracking how many people are in a space, where they are, how they move, and how long they stay – helping organisations to optimise layouts, enhance safety, optimise energy utilisation, and boost operational efficiency.

North’s solutions deliver holistic situational awareness and real-time, automated insights that drive smarter decision-making. We can help you understand the number of people entering and exiting buildings to drive estate efficiencies. We can give you a clearer picture of dwell times and motion trends to support energy, lighting and climate control usage – cutting your costs and reducing your environmental impact.

There are other clear benefits around building safety and security. Real-time alerts can flag if a space is occupied when it shouldn’t be, or help you locate people in an emergency situation.

Improving the employee or visitor experience is another advantage. Facility managers can use our sensor data to ensure that spaces are neither overcrowded nor underutilised, to ensure desk or room availability, or even to highlight cleaning and maintenance demands. Better space planning increases comfort and satisfaction or the individuals who use your buildings.

And longer term, we can help you understand how to optimise your estate and enhance future building design.

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