Housing Technology interviewed experts in GIS and spatial analytics on why housing providers should be considering these technologies, how to use them and what to look out for… How to start Cross Keys Homes’ GIS analyst, David Beswick said, “GIS software, spatially-enabled data and the appropriate technical skills are all vital, but the most important…
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Cross Keys Homes begins CityFibre IoT trial
Social housing properties across Peterborough have been transformed into a ‘smart city’ pilot project between Cross Keys Homes and CityFibre. The project will explore how a network of sensors deployed throughout Cross Keys Homes’ properties could monitor health, safety and environmental factors as well as deliver cost savings. The trial at three residential locations in…
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Tunstall telecare at Cross Keys Homes
Cross Keys Homes has chosen Tunstall to implement an advanced telecare system as part of its new Extra Care facility in Peterborough. Opening next year, the new £9.9m facility will offer retirement and sheltered housing that has been designed to provide older residents with fully managed on-site support. The 79-apartments will have Tunstall’s Communicall Vi…
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Acquisitions – good or bad for the industry?
With the planned acquisition of IBS OpenSystems by Capita and the earlier acquisition of Northgate by US-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (see the May edition of Housing Technology), are these good for social housing organisations? On the one hand, the new owners of IBS and Northgate are both likely to have greater funds to support…
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