Harmony Fire’s Auro Door wins Product Innovation of the Year at the Digital Construction Awards

Launched last year, Auro  Door embeds a battery‑powered suite of sensors within doors that measure gap, swing and drop to 0.1 mm, and detect slams and abnormal motion. Upon installation, the sensor self-validates the door’s tolerance. The door cannot be signed off until this check passes.

Continuous data is streamed via LoRaWAN to Auro Door’s dashboard, triggering instant alerts for deviations, prolonged inactivity or forced entry. Harmony Fire spent around £4m in the three-year development of Auro Door, which involved extensive fire testing, new manufacturing processes and upskilling installation teams.

Trials with social landlords have shown compliance data instantly available, eliminating manual inspections and reducing budgeting uncertainty for repairs. Landlords reported predictive maintenance, avoidance of unnecessary door‑closer replacements and enhanced resident safety.

Auro Door also has a role to play in resident safeguarding regimes: it can be configured to detect if a door hasn’t been opened for an unusual and extended period of time, triggering an alert for a welfare visit, and can detect unauthorised forced access, adding an additional security dimension for landlords.

The Digital Construction Awards are organised by Digital Construction Week, the Chartered Institute of Building, CM and Digital Construction Plus. Read about the rest of the winners.

To find out more about the Awards and enquire about sponsorship or entering next year’s event, visit digitalconstructionawards.co.uk.