As we put the finishing touches to Housing Technology’s ‘IoT Deployment in Housing 2022’ report, produced in association with Aico and due to be published in April, we thought it would be interesting to provide a snapshot of just some of the primary research captured in the report: • Timescale & readiness – A third…
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086 – March 2022
Fast Lean Smart partners with Amey for 22,500 MoD properties
Amey Secure Infrastructure has selected Fast Lean Smart’s Visitour software to optimise the scheduling of 150 operatives servicing 22,500 properties on Ministry of Defence estates. FLS will provide real-time scheduling software to improve the service experience at military homes, including heating, electrical works and repairs. The FLS software includes a self-service portal with text/email notifications…
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North Wales Housing first in Wales to launch Futr’s AI chatbot
North Wales Housing has become the first housing provider in Wales to launch a conversational AI chatbot from Futr. The chatbot, named Huw, sits on the website and is designed to answer a range of tenant queries at any time in just a few clicks. Since its adoption, Huw has improved tenant engagement and access…
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Predicting arrears with AI
Social housing tenants face rent increases in April 2022 of around £200 per household per year, alongside rising energy and food costs. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 46 per cent of social housing tenants are living in poverty, equating to just under five million people across the UK. These increases in rent and costs…
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Building confidence in compliance with IoT
For housing providers, the responsibility of managing compliance can be incredibly hard because it can be difficult to demonstrate. In the past, documents and reports would have been physically stored and logged for the thousands of social rented properties across the UK, with their respective compliance statuses becoming almost a guessing game once the reports…
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Decarbonisation – The clock is ticking and data is key
The pressures facing the social housing sector in meeting an ever-pressing decarbonisation agenda are huge. It’s well known that homes are a major contributor to the climate crisis. Powering and heating buildings account for 40 per cent of the UK’s total energy use, with England’s homes alone emitting more carbon emissions every year than all…
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