Oak Engage has been chosen by Havebury Housing to connect its workforce and increase employee engagement. Oak Engage enables businesses to connect with their staff through its mobile app and SaaS-based platform. Oak’s software provides a variety of internal communications tools that integrate seamlessly with housing providers’ existing business applications, with the aim of improving…
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General News
Ready for the internet of housing?
When we published the UK social housing sector’s first report on the internet of things (IoT) in 2017, IoT was still in its infancy in our sector. In our 2017 survey, the majority of housing providers reported to us that IoT was unimportant to their future plans, had no IoT strategies and that the technology…
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Bluesky maps Scottish cities in 3D from the air
Bluesky has added Edinburgh and Glasgow to its growing coverage of MetroVista 3D city models. Acquired using a state-of-the-art aerial sensor that simultaneously captures vertical and oblique imagery together with LiDAR, the 3D data is becoming increasingly popular for smart city applications. Providing a geographically accurate and detailed 3D representation of the urban environment, MetroVista…
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Housing Technology 2022 in review
Back together again This year’s Housing Technology annual conference (2-3 March) was very special because we were back in -person at The Oxford Belfry once again and also broadcasting live to our digital audience. Our last in-person conference in 2020 was the last business/IT event most of our community attended just before we went into…
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IoT deployment in housing
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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Peabody CEO joins NEC Software Solutions
NEC Software Solutions has appointed Brendan Sarsfield, CEO of Peabody until his retirement from the housing provider last summer, as a strategic advisor. Roger Birkinshaw, executive director for government and housing, NEC Software Solutions, said, “We’re committed to understanding the shifting issues and requirements for social housing and finding the best ways to solve them….
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