The internet of things (IoT) is broadly seen as the next evolution of the internet, the integration of connected computing into people’s everyday environments. This presents enormous opportunities for computing to transform our lives in ways that can be hard to imagine. Global consumer technology providers are racing to commercialise IoT concepts and to establish…
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054 - November 2016
Data is a currency – Spend it wisely
Data is becoming a currency, but how do we derive value from it? We leave trails of data wherever we go these days. Each time we click on a website, or buy something, sign up to a newsletter or interact with an organisation, we produce data that, when aggregated and analysed, can reveal trends about…
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#HTtop5
Welcome to the second #HTtop5… A deliciously spicy canapé of technology news, bundled in creative possibilities, sprinkled with innovation and served up on a tray of housing sector loveliness! A bit like a bacon and cheese wrap… but not as fattening and won’t get your hands greasy. Spectacles Snap’s Spectacles let users take 10-second videos…
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Flagship pioneers drones for inspections
From April 2017, Flagship Group’s RFT Services will use drones to survey specialist roofs as part of their property maintenance and repairs programme, instead of using scaffolding on non-standard, taller properties. Data from the drones is then linked to Flagship’s Orbis mapping system. As an alternative to expensive equipment such as static scaffolds or mobile…
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Nudging your way to channel shift
Eight housing providers have joined forces with Capita for a ground-breaking collaborative research project using ‘nudge’ theory to promote channel shift in their organisations. Following Capita’s recent behavioural insight project, ‘Nudging your way to reduced rent arrears’, a new programme has been launched using the same approach to achieve channel shift among tenants, encouraging them…
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SASSHA signs Ashton Pioneer Homes for CRM
Ashton Pioneer Homes has installed mobile-enabled ICE Cube customer relationship management software from SASSHA. The introduction of the SASSHA CRM Cube has improved internal communications and is also being used as a management monitoring tool. Users have their own dashboard to view outstanding tasks while managers have a dashboard to provide an overview of activity…
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