Watford Community Housing has upgraded two of its 16-storey tower blocks to a Grade D, LD1 fire detection system from Aico. WCH’s high-rise blocks were recently chosen for mandated safety audits under Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue’s supervision. After an initial review of its housing stock, the housing provider decided to upgrade the buildings’ safety systems…
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Infrastructure
Ready for the internet of housing?
When we published the UK social housing sector’s first report on the internet of things (IoT) in 2017, IoT was still in its infancy in our sector. In our 2017 survey, the majority of housing providers reported to us that IoT was unimportant to their future plans, had no IoT strategies and that the technology…
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Aico saves lives in Devon
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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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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