An Englishman’s home is his castle. To what extent an Englishman’s smart home is his smart castle, we don’t yet know. Where tentative IoT devices are already available, promises and expectations paint a future where technology “merges physical and virtual worlds, creating smart environments to improve lives and enhance wellbeing” (European Commission H2020 Digital Agenda)….
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Pulsant’s managed network for Argyll Community Housing
Pulsant, a UK hybrid cloud services provider, has completed the installation of a managed network for Argyll Community Housing Association. The network was deployed across ACHA’s eight offices and 10 sheltered housing sites. Pulsant won the contract in 2015 to supply the housing association’s network infrastructure, which covers a wide area across Argyll and Bute…
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Engage Property Technology’s JV with Qube Global Software
Qube Global Software has entered into a partnership with Engage Property Technology to deliver self-service portals to tenants in the growing build-to-rent sector. The Engage portal is fully integrated with Qube’s own software and is designed to meet the needs of today’s tenants while delivering substantial efficiencies to property managers. The portal acts as a…
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Regenda cuts arrears with Mobysoft
Regenda Homes has reduced its rent arrears with Mobysoft’s Rentsense software. Before its use of Rentsense, Regenda’s income officers had to manage their weekly caseload manually because its housing management system was either missing arrears cases or recommending cases that required no action. This meant staff were only getting through around 50% of their caseload….
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Housing CCTV images too poor – Cloudview report
New research from Cloudview has found that a third of housing providers are worried that their CCTV images are too low quality to identify criminals or intruders, even though this is why most of them installed CCTV in the first place. These organisations could also find themselves in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA),…
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Sovereign’s best-ever arrears with Rentsense
Mobysoft’s Rentsense software has helped Sovereign Housing Association to achieve its lowest-ever arrears figures of 1.7 per cent, resulting in more than £500,000 of additional rental income. Rentsense is an analytical tool that predicts which tenants are most likely to fall behind with their rent. This helped Sovereign focus its efforts where they would have…
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