The Heat Networks (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 were introduced with the objective of empowering the end-users of communal heating systems to better manage their energy use through the installation of individual heat energy meters and free access to consumption data. Two years further on, district heating specialist Insite Energy’s managing director, Peter Westwood, explains…
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Using CCTV to manage your properties
For most housing providers, CCTV is used to protect people, property and assets by providing visual surveillance. However, if you connect it to the internet – the so-called internet of things (IoT) – it can do so much more. MHS Homes has been trying out the technology and has identified many applications which neither they…
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Spring Housing is first user of MIS AMS ActiveH Lite
Spring Housing has installed ActiveH Lite, the new entry-level version of MIS AMS’s full-functionality ActiveH housing management software. As a relatively new charity working with people affected by homelessness, Spring Housing didn’t have masses of data to migrate to its new system, so ActiveH Lite can scale and grow with the organisation from the outset….
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Longhurst deploys SaaS-based Rentsense for welfare reform
Longhurst Group has invested in Mobysoft’s Rentsense to help it mitigate the effects of welfare reform as well as create efficiencies to help it deal with the government-imposed one per cent rent cuts. As part of a review across its whole organisation, Longhurst Group, comprising Friendship Care and Housing, Spire Homes and L&H Homes as…
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Genesis beams up tenant app
I am a Star Trek fan and my friends at school were also fans. I grew up watching repeats of James T Kirk and Spock exploring the universe, meeting aliens and ‘boldly going where no man has gone before’. One of the things I remember about growing up with Star Trek was that you either…
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Scotland’s Housing Network benchmarks with Clearview
Scotland’s Housing Network is the latest organisation to implement Clearview Business Intelligence and Reporting. Scotland’s Housing Network is the largest housing benchmarking and practice exchange organisation in Scotland, with over 120 local authorities and housing providers as members, representing almost 90 per cent of the sector by stock in Scotland. The purpose of the network…
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