Described as the world’s first fully integrated and certified IoT fire door, the Auro Door has been designed to deliver 24/7 compliance monitoring and real-time performance data.
Manufactured in the UK by Harmony, the Auro Door represents a significant leap forward in resident safety, asset management, and predictive maintenance for landlords and building owners.
Real-time protection for residents
Fire doors play a crucial role as life-saving barriers, yet landlords frequently face major challenges in carrying out mandatory fire door inspections. Limited access to homes often results in incomplete inspection programmes, increasing the risk of non-compliant fire doors within residential buildings.
The Auro Door, according to the company, provides a game-changing solution by delivering always-on fire door compliance monitoring, even when physical access to properties is limited. This innovative IoT-enabled fire door offers real-time alerts and data, ensuring that building managers and landlords are immediately aware of any performance issues or risks.
“As a front-line defence against the ingress of smoke and fire into homes, Auro Door is a life-saving barrier, manufactured to the highest standards,” explains Ged Moore, Managing Director at Auro by Harmony. “Its unique active monitoring system transforms fire door compliance from annual inspection to continuous self-reporting and diagnostics.”
Golden Thread of Information
Auro Door has been designed from the ground up to embrace the Golden Thread of Information ethos — the principle that accurate, up-to-date, and accessible data must follow safety-critical assets throughout their lifecycle. With Auro Door, landlords gain immediate validation on installation, followed by real-time performance tracking throughout the life of the product.
This Golden Thread of compliance data delivers total transparency and enables organisations to demonstrate that fire door safety obligations are being met at all times. By incorporating AI-driven pattern recognition, the Auro ecosystem learns over time, further enhancing predictive maintenance capabilities and safety outcomes.
Cost and efficiency savings
In addition to boosting safety, Auro Door delivers significant operational and financial benefits for landlords and asset managers:
- Predictive maintenance alerts identify wear and tear, such as failing door closers, before costly failures occur.
- Remote monitoring reduces the need for physical inspections, overcoming access issues and cutting inspection costs.
- Integration with existing facilities management systems or as a standalone solution ensures flexibility for all property types.
- Customisable dashboards, alerts, and reporting provide full visibility of fire door compliance status at any time.
Built in the UK
The launch of Auro Door is the result of Harmony’s four-year mission to challenge the status quo in the fire safety sector. With technological innovation in fire doors stagnant for many years, Harmony undertook extensive consultation with landlords, residents, and stakeholders to create a product that meets the real-world challenges of compliance and resident safety.
“Our vision has always been to create a connected suite of products that transforms resident safety and provides customers with the golden thread of compliance data they need,” adds Moore. “Every element of the Auro Door, from hardware materials to AI algorithms, has been developed in-house, giving us complete control over safety, data use, and system performance.”
The future of Fire Door safety
Auro Door marks the beginning of a new era in smart, connected life safety systems. Built specifically for the needs of social housing providers, the Auro platform combines advanced hardware and AI-powered software to deliver intelligent safety compliance, trend recognition, and automated maintenance.
With the launch of the UK-manufactured Auro Door, Harmony is redefining how building owners, landlords, and asset managers approach fire door safety — protecting residents, streamlining operations, and ensuring real-time compliance monitoring is no longer a future ambition but a present-day reality.
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