Poplar HARCA is extending its deployment of Aico’s HomeLink devices to around 6,000 homes after the success of its pilot project involving 500 homes at the end of 2022. Aico will be installing over 15,000 of its IoT-based HomeLink environmental sensors within the next 12 months. The HomeLink sensors collect data on temperature, humidity and…
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Infrastructure
Artificial expectations?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is receiving widespread coverage in the media at the moment. On the one hand, people are marvelling at the apparent wonders of ChatGPT, while on the other people are asking what untrammelled AI might mean for jobs and human agency (notwithstanding the theoretical creation of artificial general intelligence [AGI] and/or fears of…
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Cyber-threats to IoT & OT technologies
As more housing providers migrate to the cloud, they’re gaining access to a wealth of tools and services that should benefit both their tenants and their businesses. However, when moving to the cloud, any organisation must overcome a few initial challenges that they might not have faced using a traditional IT set-up, and these hurdles…
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Spotting the signals of an impending cyber-breach
It’s hard to know what’s more challenging for housing providers these days – coping with the increase in the scale and complexity of cyber threats or managing the security tools to contain them and the noise they create. From talking to Sophos’s numerous housing clients, it’s clear that their IT environments are as complex and…
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Poplar HARCA’s validation of Aico environmental sensors
Poplar HARCA knew it needed to make its residents’ homes safer, greener and healthier, and it was also looking for better ways to manage its housing portfolio. The beginning – Tech, meet human ingenuity It all started when Peter Marcus, Poplar HARCA’s assistant director of research, development and transformation, wanted to prove that the air-conditioning…
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Making the most of your Microsoft platform
At the Housing Technology 2023 conference, we discussed how housing providers are embracing Microsoft technologies to future-proof their organisations, using examples from our own customers because we knew that the results spoke for themselves. Whether you are streamlining the processing of landlord certificates, automating your authorisation-to-recruit process or improving your mobile working, there is a…
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