Gas Tag has joined Liverpool’s Local Growth Hub in order to expand its connections and gain credibility for its self-styled ‘disruptive’ gas compliance technology. Gas Tag’s technology comprises an NFC tag that is scanned to evidence that work has taken place at a property, the Gas Tag app that verifies engineer credentials and provides a…
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General News
Connected Communities 2019 at the BT Tower
Housing Technology returned for the tenth consecutive year to the incredible BT Tower in central London at the beginning of September to host ‘Connected Communities 2019’, with the generous support of Aareon, BT, Castleton Technology and Itica. With its core themes of ‘analyse, predict & inform’, the background to the event was how housing providers…
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ORM & Microsoft hackathon inspires housing innovation
ORM hosted its first Pitch (people innovating to change housing) hackathon at Microsoft’s UK offices earlier this summer, aimed at housing providers looking for fast, collaborative ways to innovate on digital initiatives. Mark Rogers, director of business transformation, Moat, said, “We’d seen similar events that ORM had been part of and thought this was something…
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Changing chairs at Bath Group
Radian Group’s assistant director of technology and innovation, Sheila Starr, has taken over the chair of the Bath Group from Longhurst Group’s director of IT, Darren Ryland. The Bath Group (Business and Technology in Housing) was set up six years ago with the aim of providing a way for larger housing providers (those with 10,000+…
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The (delayed) rise of the machines
At a recent lunch with senior executives from housing providers, the conversation started with all the excitement around the potential of AI, including automated translation for tenants not confident in English, the identification of stress or emotion in conversations to prompt interventions, predictive maintenance, energy efficiency and the value of identifying and acting on what…
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Swift work at Yorkshire Housing
As a small diversion from Housing Technology’s usual coverage, Yorkshire Housing has been doing its bit to help with the survival of the swift, an enigmatic bird that spends most of its life in the air, feeding, drinking, bathing and even sleeping on the wing, only landing to nest. The species has always relied on…
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