Mid Devon Council has completed a project to install Aico’s SmartLink Gateway, HomeLink Dashboard and IoT technologies into all of its tower blocks to improve resident safety, particularly around fire and carbon monoxide (CO) protection. The council almost immediately recognised the benefits of Aico’s system when it received an alert of high levels of CO…
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Infrastructure
The top five cyber security challenges in housing for 2022
Cyber crime continues to be a pervasive problem for all businesses in the UK, including housing providers whose push to adopt digital services accounts for an increasingly large digital footprint. The estimated cost of cyber crime across the UK is £27bn each year. Housing providers face unique cyber-security challenges in 2022, owing to several factors….
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IoT deployment in housing
As we put the finishing touches to Housing Technology’s ‘IoT Deployment in Housing 2022’ report, produced in association with Aico and due to be published in April, we thought it would be interesting to provide a snapshot of just some of the primary research captured in the report: • Timescale & readiness – A third…
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Building confidence in compliance with IoT
For housing providers, the responsibility of managing compliance can be incredibly hard because it can be difficult to demonstrate. In the past, documents and reports would have been physically stored and logged for the thousands of social rented properties across the UK, with their respective compliance statuses becoming almost a guessing game once the reports…
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Cyber attacks – Bridging the skills gap
Without the rapid adoption of digital strategies, it’s difficult to imagine how housing providers would have coped during the pandemic. In a matter of weeks, committed and passionate IT teams rose to the challenge of accelerating the pace of digital transformation across estates, enabling remote working and expanding online service delivery. Unfortunately though, as I…
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Barnet Homes & Aico: IoT & industry 4.0 compliance
As of November 2021, Barnet Homes has over 3,000 properties connected to the Aico-HomeLink IoT platform, accounting for 20 per cent of its total housing stock. The technology has demonstrably saved people’s lives and generated net savings. Following a smooth roll-out, Barnet Homes has confirmed it will complete a full roll-out of 15,000 homes by…
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