Housing providers have suffered a spate of cyber-attacks in recent years, some of which have been high-profile, headline-making cases. Cyber criminals target our sector attempting to pillage the vast amounts of personal data held by housing providers and, in some cases, have held the housing provider to ransom. The most common cyber attacks Since June…
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Infrastructure
Digitalising retrofits with SHDF & HomeLink
Housing Technology interviewed Sam Collier, sustainability and ethics lead at HomeLink (Aico), to find out about the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) and how the inclusion of digitisation can support decarbonisation. The SHDF is a £3.8bn fund for improving the energy efficiency of social homes in England. All applicable homes with an EPC rating of…
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First portfolio-wide IoT roll-out with Stirling Council & Aico
Following Stirling Council’s original IoT trial with Aico (see the September 2022 edition of Housing Technology), the council has now embarked on the UK’s first full roll-out of a multi-technology and multi-sensor connected-home solution across its entire housing portfolio. 50,000 IoT devices will be installed over the next 8-10 years in homes managed by Stirling…
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Office 365 for fire-safety compliance
An example of how to do it… This article provides an overview of Microsoft Office 365 and describes how Microsoft Apps and SharePoint can support the golden thread of information required by the Fire Safety bill, notably fire-risk assessments, fire-door management and fire-safety logbooks. We will also look at the requirements of the draft ‘Fire…
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Outsourcing and ‘the great resignation’
In the wake of the pandemic, a new phenomenon has manifested as people reassess their work/life balance, dubbed by the media as ‘the great resignation’. With many employees choosing to resign from their jobs, the great resignation means that businesses are experiencing a significant skills shortage. A recent survey suggested that almost a third of…
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Aico launches AudioLink+
Aico has launched the second version of its award-winning AudioLink technology to make it easier and faster to access real-time data from Aico’s alarms via its free AudioLink+ app. With the average time to take a report taking around five seconds, the Aico app generates a simple-to-read, colour-coded report on a range of alarm data…
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