Continuous fire door compliance

Fire doors don’t fail
on inspection day.

They fail on a wet Tuesday in November — wedged open on the third floor, hinge screws backed out, closer disconnected. Nobody finds out for five months. Parilon monitors every door, continuously, and evidences it automatically.

Calculate your saving

Built for the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 — quarterly communal door checks, annual flat entrance door checks, digital records, on demand.

Live estate status

Meridian Court · 486 doors

Live

479

Compliant

5

Attention

2

Critical

  • Held open Block C, L3 lobby — 14 min and counting
  • Closer Block A, L7 riser — slow close, out of tolerance
  • Resolved Block B, L2 — cleared by site team, 09:41

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The problem

75%

of UK fire doors fail inspection.

Critical defects, missing components, damage and misuse — unnoticed, unreported, and capable of turning a containable fire into a fatal one.

Source to confirm

The system is structurally broken. Not badly run — broken.

Fire doors are life-safety systems. They are still managed with clipboards and a twice-yearly walkaround. Four failures, all built in:

Snapshots, not monitoring

A door is inspected on one day and assumed compliant for the other 364.

No visibility between visits

A door propped open at 2am is a fire strategy that no longer exists. Nobody knows.

Fragmented evidence

Paper forms, siloed PDFs, three contractors, and a regulator asking for one record.

Reactive maintenance

Faults are found after deterioration, when the remedial bill is at its largest.

Paper checklists don’t keep buildings safe.

The shift

What is continuous fire door compliance?

Continuous fire door compliance is the practice of monitoring fire doors in real time with connected sensors, rather than assessing them periodically by hand. Every door reports its own condition — closure, hold-open events, hardware movement, damage — and every event is logged as timestamped, auditable evidence. Compliance stops being a date in a calendar and becomes a live state you can prove.

Periodic inspection

  • ×Two to four data points per door, per year
  • ×Defects discovered months after they occur
  • ×Evidence assembled manually, per audit
  • ×Cost driven by inspector day-rate and travel
  • ×Misuse — wedging, propping — invisible entirely

Continuous compliance

  • Every door, every day, no gaps
  • Alerts within minutes of the event
  • Audit-ready record generated automatically
  • Fixed, predictable per-door cost
  • Misuse caught while it’s still happening
How Parilon works

Three steps. No rip-out.

See the full journey
  1. 01

    Retrofit

    The Smart Fire Door Device fits to existing doors in minutes. No new doors, no rewiring, no disruption to residents. Certified fire door integrity is preserved.

  2. 02

    Monitor

    Each device reports continuously. Held-open events, closure failures and hardware movement raise an alert to the right person within minutes — not at the next inspection.

  3. 03

    Evidence

    Every event is logged against the door, the block and the responsible person. Regulator asks for twelve months of records; you export them in one click.

The stack

Hardware, firmware, software. All ours.

Three products, one system. No integration risk between vendors, no finger-pointing when something needs to change.

Smart Fire Door Device

Retrofit IoT hardware. Battery powered, long-life, fitted without altering the door’s certification. The sensor layer the whole system stands on.

Hardware detail

Sensorite

Asset management. Every door in the estate as a record — location, specification, certification, history, responsible person. The single source of truth.

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REQI

Virtual inspections. Structured remote assessment where a physical visit adds cost but no information. Same rigour, a fraction of the travel.

How REQI works
Why it matters

What changes when every door reports for itself

Evidence on demand

Twelve months of per-door records exported in a click. The audit stops being a project.

Faults found early

A closer drifting out of tolerance is a £40 adjustment. Six months later it’s a door.

Misuse made visible

Wedging and propping are the most common failure and the least recorded. Now both.

Fewer manual inspections

Physical visits go where the data says they’re needed, not where the calendar says.

Defensible position

If the worst happens, you can show exactly what you knew and exactly when you acted.

Predictable cost

A fixed per-door figure instead of an inspection bill that moves with contractor rates.

Commercial case

Continuous monitoring costs less than the inspections it replaces.

Not a claim — a calculation. Put your door count in and see the comparison against your own estate, including the remedial and replacement spend that early detection avoids.

Worked example — 1,200 doors

Current annual cost

Inspection, remedial, replacement, admin

£810,000

With Parilon

Including device cost

£729,960

Annual saving

£80,040

Indicative figures based on the Client Calculator model. Model pending client sign-off

In their words
“We had four contractors, three spreadsheets and no way of answering a simple question: is every fire door in this building working right now? Six weeks after fitting Parilon we could answer it in one screen.”
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Head of Building Safety, regional housing provider

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News & insight

Latest from Parilon

Knowledge hub

Regulation · 6 min read

What the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 actually require of you

Quarterly, annual, and the bit most responsible persons miss.

Case study · 4 min read

2,400 doors, one dashboard: a housing association’s first year

What changed operationally, and what it cost.

Opinion · 5 min read

Why the annual inspection was never going to be enough

The maths of sampling a system that fails continuously.

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We don’t monitor fire doors better. We change how compliance works.

Thirty minutes, the live platform, and your estate’s numbers.

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