Live monitoring · ACOP L8 Aligned

Legionella monitoring
that never sleeps

We replace monthly manual water temperature checks with continuous IoT sensor monitoring — protecting your residents, your staff, and your CQC rating, 24 hours a day.

29days
Monitoring gap with
monthly visits
48hrs
How fast Legionella
reaches danger levels
£80k+
Typical HSE fine after
a conviction
VWIN IoT Dashboard — Demo All systems active
Calorifier Flow
63.2°C
✓ Within safe range
Cold Water Tank
17.8°C
✓ Within safe range
Sentinel Hot — Rm 14
48.1°C
⚠ Alert sent — 09:42
Sentinel Cold — GF
16.4°C
✓ Within safe range
HSE ACOP L8 Aligned
HSG274 Aligned
CQC Inspection Ready
5-Year Data Retention
No Wi-Fi Required

Manual monitoring
leaves gaps that
cost lives and licences

A contractor visiting your care home once a month takes a temperature reading and leaves. For the next 29 days, you have no idea what is happening in your water system. Legionella bacteria can reach dangerous concentrations within 48 hours in stagnant, warm water. Your residents — elderly, immunocompromised, vulnerable — cannot afford that gap.

The monitoring gap
29 days of blind risk
Between monthly contractor visits, your water system is unmonitored. A boiler fault, a cold spell, or a hot summer week could push temperatures into the danger zone without anyone knowing.
29 days
The audit trail problem
Paper records fail CQC
Water safety records are checked at every CQC inspection. Paper logbooks and spreadsheets are the most commonly cited compliance weakness. A digital, timestamped audit trail is what inspectors want to see.
The legal exposure
Fines start at £80,000
If a resident contracts Legionnaires' disease and you cannot demonstrate continuous monitoring, HSE enforcement is likely. Fines exceed £80,000 per conviction. Directors can face personal criminal liability.

Up and running in
under 2 weeks

No Wi-Fi needed. No IT team required. No disruption to residents. We install, configure and manage everything — you get a login and peace of mind.

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Free Site Review

We visit your site, walk your water system, count the monitoring points and explain exactly what is needed. No charge, no obligation.

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Sensor Installation

We clip wireless sensors onto your pipes at all key monitoring points. Typically 2–3 hours. No drilling, no cables, no disruption to residents.

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4G Gateway

A small gateway device collects sensor data and transmits it to the cloud via 4G. Completely independent of your broadband — just plugs into a socket.

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Live Dashboard

Your Responsible Person gets a login. Temperatures are monitored every hour. Alerts sent instantly if anything goes out of range. Reports generated on demand.

Everything included.
Nothing to manage.

We are not just selling sensors. We are your water safety monitoring partner — monitoring your dashboard, responding to alerts, and generating your compliance reports so you do not have to.

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24/7 Continuous Monitoring

Temperature readings every hour from every monitoring point — calorifier, cold water tank, and all sentinel outlets. Not once a month. Every day.

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Instant Alerts

Email to your Responsible Person the moment any temperature falls outside the safe range. Know within minutes, not 28 days.

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L8 Compliance Reports

Monthly and annual compliance logs generated on demand in the format required under ACOP L8 and HSG274. Ready for CQC at any time.

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5-Year Data Retention

All monitoring data securely stored for the legally required 5-year period. Timestamped, always accessible. The audit trail that protects you.

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Secure Online Dashboard

Your Registered Manager gets their own login to see live temperatures, historical trends, alerts and compliance status — from any device, at any time.

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4G Independent — No Wi-Fi

The system uses its own 4G SIM card. Your broadband, IT infrastructure and network settings are completely irrelevant. It just works.

Built for the care sector

We specialise in the regulated care environment — where vulnerable people depend on your compliance, and CQC expects to see evidence at every inspection.

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Residential Care Homes

Our core market. 6–8 monitoring points typical. Full ACOP L8 compliance reports included.

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Nursing Homes

More complex water systems, more monitoring points, higher regulatory scrutiny — we handle all of it.

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Day Nurseries

Ofsted registered settings with a Legionella duty. Smaller systems, straightforward monitoring.

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Schools

Complex buildings with seasonal shut-down risk. Long pipe runs and multiple sentinel points.

Every site is different.
So is every quote.

Pricing depends on the number of monitoring points at your site. We calculate this during your free site review and provide a written quote within 24 hours.

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One-Time Setup

A single upfront payment covers all hardware — sensors, gateway, 4G SIM — plus professional installation, commissioning and onboarding. Hardware shall be owned outright by you from day one. No lease, no rental, no lock-in on equipment.

Paid before installation begins
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Monthly Platform Fee

A simple monthly fee covers your dashboard, real-time alerts, compliance reports, 5-year data storage and email support. Collected automatically by Direct Debit — no invoices to chase, no surprises.

Minimum term · rolling monthly thereafter
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What Affects Your Price

The number of monitoring points at your site is the main factor. A standard care home typically has 6–10 points. A larger nursing home may have 10–18. Nurseries are usually 4–6 points.

Most clients find cost comparable to manual visits
What we promise on price
Your written quote is fixed — no surprises after installation
Hardware is priced at cost plus a fair margin — you own it outright
Monthly fee does not increase during your minimum term
No hidden fees — no setup charge for the dashboard, no per-user licence, no report generation fee
In most cases, total annual cost is comparable to or lower than your current monitoring spend
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Free site visit · Written quote within 24 hours · No obligation

Similar cost.
365 times more data.

Most care homes spend more on manual monitoring than they realise — once contractor visits, report preparation and administration time are added up. Our system delivers continuous 24/7 coverage for a comparable or lower annual cost, and with significantly stronger legal protection. Ask us to run the comparison for your specific site.

Item Manual visits VWIN IoT
Monitoring frequency Once/month Every hour
Alert if temp fails Up to 29 days Within minutes
Annual monitoring cost (Avg) ~£4,200–£6,500 Comparable or lower
CQC-ready audit trail Paper / spreadsheet Digital · 5 years
Compliance reports Manual preparation On demand
Year 2 saving Typically significant

Technology expertise
in water safety

VWIN Ltd, established in 2009. The Director brings over 25 years of IT systems, data management and managed services expertise to the water safety compliance sector.

We are not a water hygiene contractor. We are a technology partner — our role is to make Legionella compliance continuous, automatic and auditable, so you can focus on caring for your residents rather than managing paperwork.

2009
Year VWIN Ltd was established
< 4hrs
Alert response during business hours
£5m
Public liability insurance cover
24/7
Continuous monitoring from day one

Get started

Book your free
30-minute compliance review

We visit your site, walk your water system, and give you a written report — no charge, no obligation. Most care homes book their first installation within 2 weeks.

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