Artificial intelligence (AI) powered solutions, in particular smart chat-bots, can help housing providers to transform themselves and meet the demands of the digital future. The digital future of social housing A recent survey by 3C Consultants suggested that by 2025 the typical housing provider will be fully digitised, offering 24/7, personalised services and having the…
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General News
ROCC partners with Purrmetrix
ROCC, developers of the widely-used Uniclass housing software, has announced a partnership with IoT supplier Purrmetrix. The partnership is expected to form the foundation for a series of smart-home solutions to monitor the environment and condition of housing providers’ properties using Purrmetrix’s low-cost IoT sensors, with the sensors automatically reporting temperature, humidity or carbon dioxide…
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GDPR is here – What happens next?
After over a year of build-up, GDPR has now been in force for over three months. But the real journey for the housing sector is only just beginning, as Daniela Flores, in-house counsel and GDPR officer at Insite Energy, explains. The deadline of 25 May 2018 certainly created a sense of urgency, but the scope…
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Sneak preview – Housing Technology’s The E-State of the Nation 2018
We are in the middle of gathering data for our ‘The E-State of the Nation 2018’ report (there’s still time to contribute to the online survey at housingtechdev.wpengine.com/2018report), so we thought it would be interesting to give you a very rough snapshot of the likely trends so far: Business vs. technology decisions – Housing providers’…
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The importance of data-driven housing
“One necessary qualification for anyone in management is to stop asking people to explain the ups and downs (day to day, month to month, and year to year) that come from random variation.” Dr Brian Joiner The importance of data and especially its security has come to prominence of late, not just in the housing…
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Women in IT at Flagship Group
Flagship Group is proud to be above the UK national average for the number of female employees working in IT; the seven roles vary from GIS development and infrastructure specialists to business partners. Housing Technology interviewed some of Flagship’s IT team about their roles and women in IT. Starting out in IT Rachael Leeder, an…
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