NEC Housing is partnering with Switchee to make it easier for housing providers to identify properties requiring attention and take proactive action, with a particular focus on damp and mould problems. The collaboration will combine NEC’s information management system with real-time data gathered from Switchee’s IoT-based smart devices. The combined data can then be reviewed…
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Infrastructure
Grand Union gets 12,500 smart homes with Aico
Grand Union Housing has introduced Aico’s smart-home technologies across its portfolio of 12,500 properties to improve residents’ safety, reduce damp and mould concerns, and ensure compliance with shifting regulations. Aico’s HomeLink Connected Home IoT sensors were chosen by the housing provider for the real-time monitoring of indoor environmental conditions such as humidity and temperature as…
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Midlothian Council installs 7,000 Aico IoT sensors
Midlothian Council has begun a rollout of over 7,000 Aico Ei1000G gateways across its housing portfolio to improve compliance, help with asset management and enhance residents’ safety. The council opted to install the Ei1000G gateway across its entire housing stock; Midlothian Council had already installed Aico’s 3000 Series alarms in their properties which allowed for…
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Cybersecurity – Why your CEO should be worried
I am sure we all remember when public-sector organisations like housing providers held the view that they would never be subject to a cybersecurity attack, with us all assuming that those risks were reserved for financial and private-sector organisations with billion-pound turnovers. After all, of what value was the information held by public-sector organisations; it…
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Beating damp & mould with IoT sensors
In February 2023, the Housing Ombudsman released a one-year follow-up to its ‘Spotlight on damp & mould – It’s not lifestyle’ report. It highlighted that 35 per cent of RSLs sampled now have a specific damp and mould policy, 12 per cent are in the process of implementing one, and 19 per cent are self-assessing…
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Take advantage of the smart home revolution
Over the past few years, the potential of IoT devices to help housing providers improve their services has become clearer. From improving a property’s sustainability, reducing repair costs through proactive maintenance and improving safety and security, and as IoT technologies get better and the barriers to entry become lower, it’s now clear that the deployment…
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