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

Fire safety engineering consultancy Harmony Fire developed a fully integrated, IoT-enabled and certified fire door system that provides real-time, 24/7 compliance monitoring. The “world-first” Auro Door was created in response to the multiple challenges of compliance, effective asset management and golden thread requirements in the social housing sector.

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.