Rochdale Boroughwide Housing has partnered with Tunstall Healthcare to transform how it cares for residents in its first purpose-built extra-care facility in Rochdale. RBH wanted to move away from a more traditional care home setup at its Hare Hill scheme. They are future-proofing the homes by providing residents with tailored digital solutions designed to give…
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Customer Management
Caltech joins G-Cloud
Caltech IT, a leading supplier of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, has been added to the government’s ‘G-Cloud 8’ framework as a provider of software as a service (SaaS) solutions. The G-Cloud initiative was launched in 2012 to help public-sector organisations procure cloud-based services. Overall G-Cloud-based sales (across all suppliers) passed £50 million in February 2014, with…
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Using CCTV to manage your properties
For most housing providers, CCTV is used to protect people, property and assets by providing visual surveillance. However, if you connect it to the internet – the so-called internet of things (IoT) – it can do so much more. MHS Homes has been trying out the technology and has identified many applications which neither they…
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Genesis beams up tenant app
I am a Star Trek fan and my friends at school were also fans. I grew up watching repeats of James T Kirk and Spock exploring the universe, meeting aliens and ‘boldly going where no man has gone before’. One of the things I remember about growing up with Star Trek was that you either…
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NB Housing launches texting service
NB Housing is now the first housing provider in Northern Ireland to provide a text messaging service for tenants, based on a combined solution from Deeplake Communications and Omniledger. Launched this summer, the integration of Deeplake’s Communications Manager with Omniledger’s Pyramid housing management system gives tenants a quick and easy method of communicating with NB…
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Home, smart home… The future of independence and care
David Soto, managing director of Green Access, looks at how the internet of things (IoT) will enable the connected home of the future and empower individuals to take greater control of their health and independence. When it comes to the care sector, two things are certain. First, the elderly population will continue to grow, as…
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