Many of us love our smart home technologies, from internet-enabled doorbells to intelligent boiler controls but very few of us really think about the technology that we put in our homes. The cost of a device or platform often plays a key factor in the decision-making process, with popular shopping sites offering numerous cut-price, no-name,…
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Infrastructure
Regenda’s Propeller Powered asset-tagging software
Regenda Group is working Propeller Powered to deploy the software provider’s Prop-FS fire door system across its properties. The Prop-FS digital toolkit comprises inspection scheduling, QR asset tagging, job management and reporting. From the end of 2021, Regenda’s fire inspectors will be using Propeller’s mobile app to capture fire-door inspection outcomes on site, tagging all…
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Remotely monitoring & protecting connected communities
The concept of digital twins and using data to create a virtual representation of a physical object has been part of FireAngel’s innovations since 2007 when the IoT landscape began to take shape. With housing providers facing growing pressure to improve fire safety for residents and maintain a ‘golden thread’ of asset information, meeting these…
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Aico launches new environmental sensors
Aico has launched a new range of IoT-based HomeLink environmental sensors, marking the company’s first ‘smart home’ product beyond its well-established smoke and carbon-monoxide alarms since its acquisition of HomeLink in 2020. Available in two models, the Ei1020 measures temperature and humidity while the Ei1025 measures temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide; both IoT-based sensors are…
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Cybersecurity – What’s the problem?
The problem is that cybersecurity is everybody’s problem and unless every department is involved in discussions on the solution then no solution will be truly effective. The USA’s National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) puts it very well in its Cyber-Risk Oversight Handbook: “Directors need to understand and approach cybersecurity as an enterprise-wide risk management…
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Digital twins in housing
Housing Technology interviewed executives from CGA Simulation, Chimni, Civica, Gray Fox Consulting, NEC Software Solutions, Simul8 and Twinview about the role of digital twins in housing and how they can be used for better business operations, improve tenant safety and support more rigorous governance and regulatory compliance. What is a digital twin? Gray Fox Consulting’s…
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