The Connected Home Consortium is running a series of pilot projects to assess how the Internet of Things could help with tenancy and asset management applications. The first pilot focuses on sensor technology to help manage tenancy issues related to temperature, damp and condensation in housing providers’ properties. The consortium is using Blue Maestro’s Tempo…
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General News
Omfax appoints new project manager
Omfax Systems has expanded its housing team with the appointment of Marjorie Matthews as its new project manager. She joins the company from Capita where she was a pre-sales consultant for seven years. She has also worked with a number of well-known housing management, mobile working, and repairs and maintenance software providers, including Orchard and…
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How to be an IT ninja…
I’m not a real ninja. Let me just state that from the outset. I’d like to be, but I have a bad back, I’m from Hartlepool, and I’m not physically very agile… …Or am I (raises ninja eyebrow)? The word agile is used a lot at the moment, in different contexts and often meaning completely…
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All change on government’s procurement framework
Harry Metcalfe, managing director of dxw, a digital service provider to the public sector, provides an update on the latest government initiatives to provide a workable procurement framework for agile digital services. The successful development of user-focused digital services is a vital part of housing’s future. Increasingly, tenants will demand these solutions. But even if…
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New apprentices join Salix Homes
As regular readers will know, Housing Technology is a great supporter of housing providers’ apprenticeship schemes so we’re delighted to report that Salix Homes in Salford has just taken on nine new apprentices (from 150 applicants) in its environmental maintenance and security teams. Salix Homes also reported that it was one of the first housing…
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Southern IT Forum meeting at Microsoft
The Southern IT Forum’s June meeting was held at Microsoft’s offices in London towards the end of last month. The session started off with a presentation from Microsoft’s public-sector cloud strategist, Jeremy Tolmie, who took the group through IT transformation trends and Microsoft’s cloud services. He was followed by Steve Hughes, a Microsoft technology solutions…
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