Gamma, the location intelligence company has said it plans to expand its team across Ireland as it rolls out its new service AddressLink.
The company said the jobs will be in the areas of data science and software development.It is targeting €2 million in business growth across the island with the new web-based API service, which delivers a range of property level data and location intelligence analysis to organisations.
Based on an address or Eircode, Gamma said AddressLink delivers details on the potential perils relating to a specific building - including flood, fire, subsidence and crime, and can provide details around the planning application history of a property.
It also provides building variables such as height, number of floors, average BER, estimated property value and method of heating - and information relating to a property's proximity to services including retailers, fire stations, dangerous building uses and even electric vehicle charging points.
Gamma said AddressLink will enable banks, insurance companies, government organisations, energy providers and telecommunication operators to make "better-informed decisions and assessments" using GDPR-compliant building data.
The company said it will be particularly beneficial for assessing climate change impacts and estimating retrofit projects.
It has partnered with SEAI and BERWOW to deliver the first online retrofit tool, BERWOW, to SSE Airtricity and An Post to help homeowners understand their retrofit options.
"The race to understand and tackle climate change highlights the need for better and more available property level data," said Feargal O’Neill, Chief Executive Officer at Gamma.
"To both avoid the impacts and reduce our greenhouse gases, we need to understand in detail where our property assets are and what characteristics they have," he added.
Mr O'Neill said AddressLink will help organisations to understand property-level risk.
"It is the first all-island property-level API solution and will soon be available in other markets.
"Developed over the past two years through a GDPR-compliant and ISO-driven process, AddressLink offers a unique data resource for researchers and analysts across the island of Ireland – one that can reduce risk and aid decision-making," he said.
