Safe Shores Monitoring has launched its Companion app that transforms a normal smartphone into a lone-worker protection device with unrivalled safety features as part of an £800,000 investment into its business. Companion is a cross-platform, IoT-enabled lone worker application, connected to Safe Shores Monitoring’s ‘Police Preferred Specification’ Archangel cloud to deliver a contextually-aware, intelligence-driven service….
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068 - March 2019
Adapting to changing customer expectations
With the arrival of the fourth industrial age, we have all experienced changes to our everyday lives that were at one time beyond the scope of our dreams. As consumers of products and services, our expectations around ease of transacting have been transformed and we want efficient, effective interactions, personalised to our needs. Housing providers…
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Housing Insight launches communication hub
Housing Insight’s new Communication Hub, developed by the team behind Communication Manager (CMGR), has been recently launched as a new addition to the company’s main PanConnect software. As well as providing two-way SMS, Communication Hub enables any housing or care provider to integrate with all social media platforms including Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp for multi-channel…
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Outsourcing and shared services
In recent years, shared services and outsourced services have tended to morph into a single area as housing providers seek to optimise budgets. The original objective was to collaborate within the sector, to effectively share the provision of a service by one part of an organisation or group, but this only took into account the…
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Housing procurement and Brexit
At the time of writing (early March 2019), Britain will exit the EU at 23:00 on Friday 29 March. You might also be aware that the Public Procurement Regulations 2015, which are the UK’s transposition of European procurement rules into domestic law, apply to the social housing sector. A no-deal Brexit is currently still a…
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Smartline’s e-health pilot project
Poor housing has been shown to have a major impact on people’s health and quality of life. The Cornish research and innovation project Smartline is collecting data from environmental sensors fitted in the homes of social housing tenants in order to explore how technology can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of local…
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