ZapIQ aims for one million homes after COSIE Homes acquisition
Following the COSIE Homes acquisition, ZapCarbon now works with around 100 social landlords and has 40,000 sensors installed — with an ambition to reach one million homes within five years.
A firm selling sensors to social landlords has acquired one of its rivals, and now aims to install the product in one million homes within five years.
ZapCarbon has 100 social landlords on its books after its subsidiary ZapIQ acquired the team and business assets of COSIE Homes from IoT Solutions Group.
The firm currently works with some of the biggest housing providers in the sector, including Places for People, Clarion, L&Q, Peabody and Bromford Flagship LiveWest.
Inside Housing understands that ZapCarbon will invest a seven-figure sum in the COSIE Homes business over the next three years.
Both ZapIQ and COSIE Homes make sensors that can be installed in landlords' homes, collect data on environmental conditions and send alerts based on their readings.
Following the merger, ZapCarbon's businesses have a combined 40,000 sensors installed in homes across the social housing sector. Only half of these are currently live and a further 5,000 will be rolled out this winter.
Speaking to Inside Housing about his plans following the move, Dale Holroyd, chief executive of ZapCarbon, said: “The long-term ambition is to be in a million homes over the next five years, which sounds like a big number, but actually, it's not. “It's about making sure that you can bring down the costs of the hardware enough for it to be affordable for larger landlords to put the kit in all their homes. That's what's stopping it. “From our perspective, it's about creating value-add in the data itself, so that effectively the return on investment to landlords is self-funding. We are working on a model for that at the moment, and we're also working with some strategic partners to be able to get the product up on scale.”
Partners include Hyde, L&Q and Notting Hill Genesis.
Emma Mahy, chief executive of COSIE Homes, said combining resources will allow the companies to work more efficiently after admitting that they have been through some “challenging times” due to the sector not moving as quickly as they had hoped.
Source: Inside Housing, by Ellie Brown, 11 August 2026. https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/firm-selling-sensors-to-social-landlords-acquires-rival-98273