Thanks to a £100,000 innovation award from the National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme, CityWest Homes has teamed up with utility metering company Energy Assets to install ‘community metering’ across 840 properties in eight London tower blocks. These will access cheaper electricity without tenants needing to cut back on comfort. Work started in January…
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Seeing CCTV in a new light
James Wickes, CEO of Cloudview, looks at the impact cloud technology is having on traditional CCTV for housing providers. As both observers and the observed, we all have a ‘view’ on what CCTV is. We’ll have seen the grainy, frame-by-frame footage, often used as evidence against criminal or disruptive behaviour. We’ll have noticed the cumbersome…
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Idox revamps Trafford’s business applications
Trafford Council went live earlier this year with a range of business solutions from Idox designed to replace its aging legacy systems for planning, building control, land charges and gazetteers. The council reported that one of the challenges when migrating from one system to another wasn’t the volume of data in its legacy system but…
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DXW rallies SMEs around G-Cloud and DS2
In February around 25 SME G-Cloud providers, led by web services provider DXW, united in their dismay at the government’s latest agile procurement initiative, Digital Services 2 (DS2) and lobbied for change. They felt that the framework, in theory designed to enable the public sector to engage with agile service providers to build digital services…
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IT suppliers support Cottsway Housing to help save local food bank
Cottsway Housing Association in Oxfordshire has been overwhelmed by the support from some of its IT contractors and suppliers after the volunteers running the Oxfordshire West Food Bank asked the housing provider for help. Due to limited space and access, as well as a lack of heating and facilities for the volunteers, the food bank…
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The boardroom paper chase
The quarterly board meeting may be one of the fundamental aspects of traditional corporate structures. But it has remained completely unchanged, still relying in the majority of cases on hundreds of pages of paper presented and collated up to several weeks before the meeting. But with budgetary pressures and the need for real-time problem solving,…
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