BCHA is installing IoT-based legionella sensors across its properties in the south west of England, based on an IoT data management platform from Daizy Tech. The housing provider is now also inviting other IoT suppliers to put forward additional ‘smart building’ ideas. The new IoT scheme is the result of a pilot project between the…
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082 - July 2021
Project managing for success
Author – David Hughes is a self-employed ICT programme and project manager specialising in social housing and local government. The suggestions here are based on over 20 years’ personal experience of having successfully completed a wide range of projects and programmes in social housing and local government in the UK and overseas. All programmes and…
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Transforming data management
As someone relatively new to social housing, what’s struck me most is what the housing sector can learn from other sectors in terms of how they could use data to deliver better outcomes for their customers. Real-time analytics Before joining ForHousing in 2018, I spent ten years developing analytic solutions for supermarkets across Europe and…
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Responding to a cyberbreach – What should you do?
In the last edition of Housing Technology, we looked at the growing threat of ransomware to housing providers, the importance of preparing for a breach and why paying a ransom isn’t the answer. Following best practice and maintaining good cyber-hygiene is critical to reducing your ‘attack surface’. Yet frustratingly, even if an organisation has these…
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Decision Time’s £600k expansion
Antrim-based Decision Time is growing its workforce by 75 per cent with the creation of 13 new jobs following a £600,000 capital injection into the software provider. The new jobs are in software development, sales, customer service, HR and marketing, taking the company’s headcount to 30 by the end of 2021. With over 60 social…
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