Smart estates, built on the network you already own.
UMA Vision for Police, Fire & Rescue, Ambulance and multi-agency sites. Welfare evidence, chain-of-custody, utilisation and Net Zero data, on the Cisco infrastructure you already operate.
Eight pressures we see on every Blue Light estate.
- 01 Estates running hot
Ageing buildings, tight capital, growing operational demand. Estates teams asked to deliver more from less.
- 02 Welfare without evidence
Custody, cells, crew rest and dorms. Welfare conversations relying on intuition, not measured environmental data.
- 03 Chain-of-custody on paper
Firearms stores, evidence rooms, drug stores. Audit trails reconstructed after the fact, inspection-day stress.
- 04 Manual log sheets
Appliance bays, kit storage, drying rooms. Environmental conditions captured on clipboards. No alert when seal or temperature fails.
- 05 Utilisation unknown
Interview rooms, training estates, make-ready bays. No live picture of which space is earning its capital and which is not.
- 06 Lone worker risk
Site staff, custody officers, out-of-hours teams. Check-ins relying on memory and radio, with no escalation if missed.
- 07 Hub-and-spoke blind spots
Multi-site forces, fire authorities and ambulance trusts running standby points and hubs with no system-level view.
- 08 Net Zero pressure
Sector targets without verifiable energy data. BMS and HVAC on timetables, not occupancy or demand.
What UMA does, where.
From custody welfare to estate rationalisation.
Force estates run hot, with ageing buildings and tight capital budgets. UMA gives estates teams the live data to prove utilisation, protect officer welfare, and hold environments inside spec.
- 01 Custody suite welfare
Cell occupancy, temperature, air quality and check-in patterns, written to the live dashboard and the audit trail. Evidence for HMICFRS inspection and PACE compliance.
- 02 Firearms and evidence stores
Door state, environmental conditions and access logs in one place. Easy to demonstrate chain-of-custody integrity at inspection.
- 03 Interview and meeting rooms
Real utilisation data for every interview room. Evidence for consolidation, or the case to hold space in high-demand locations.
- 04 Lone worker and rest areas
Presence and motion data in rest rooms and out-of-hours areas, with optional fall detection where duty of care calls for it.
Ready when the turnout bell goes.
Fire stations need every bay, every locker and every piece of kit ready to go. UMA gives Fire and Rescue estates teams the environmental and equipment data they need to keep stations mission-ready.
- 01 Appliance bays
Door cycle counts, temperature and humidity sensors. Catch freezing bays and seal failures before they affect turnout.
- 02 BA and kit storage
Environmental monitoring for breathing apparatus, PPE and drying rooms. Live data instead of manual log sheets.
- 03 Dorms and rest rooms
Air quality, temperature and occupancy sensors. Evidence for welfare conversations and retrofit investment cases.
- 04 Training and drill towers
Use patterns across the training estate. Justify investment where demand is highest, consolidate where it is not.
Buildings that keep crews on the road.
Ambulance estates are a network of stations, make-ready sites and hubs. UMA delivers the building-side data that keeps the clinical estate running, so clinical and operational leaders can focus on response.
- 01 Make-ready bays
Temperature, humidity and occupancy data for vehicle prep areas. Evidence to improve turnaround and staffing decisions.
- 02 Drug stores and controlled areas
Temperature, access and environmental data for drug storage, with alerts and audit trails built in from day one. MHRA-ready.
- 03 Crew rest and welfare
Air quality, temperature and noise data in rest rooms. Directly supports HSE and welfare conversations.
- 04 Hub and spoke utilisation
Real utilisation across stations, standby points and hubs. Informs estate strategy and response-time modelling.
The numbers behind the claim.
- 24/7 Welfare evidence
Continuous environmental and presence data across cells, rest rooms and on-call space, replacing point-in-time checks.
- 100% Chain-of-custody audit
Full digital trail across firearms, evidence and drug stores. Door state, access logs and environmental conditions in one record.
- 30% Lower energy / station
Typical savings from occupancy-linked HVAC and lighting across bays, dorms and operations space.
- < 8 Weeks to first data
Cisco APs become the IoT gateway. No parallel cabling, no clinical or operational disruption.
How we deliver.
- 01 Weeks 0–4Discover
Scope estates and operational priorities with the force, service or trust. Audit existing systems. Agree the site that proves the case.
- 02 Weeks 4–12Pilot
Deploy on one station, suite or hub. Validate the data, secure operational sign-off, run alongside the existing rhythm.
- 03 Months 3–12Scale
Roll out across the estate by site, by region. Monthly performance reviews against the agreed KPIs.
- 04 Year 2+Operate
Steady-state optimisation. Quarterly benchmarks against sector peers. New capability added as priorities evolve.
The standards we meet.
- ISO 27001 Information security management, independently certified.
- Cyber Essentials Plus UK NCSC-backed cyber security, audited to the Plus level.
- NPCC information handling Aligned to National Police Chiefs’ Council information guidance.
- NHS DTAC Meets the NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria where in scope.
- ICO registered Registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
- AWS UK-region hosting Hosted in AWS UK regions, so your data stays onshore.