Vale of Aylesbury Housing has begun installing Switchee IoT devices in around 15 per cent of its properties, towards its longer-term goal of making all of its 6,500 properties fully IoT-connected. The housing provider is using Switchee’s smart thermostats to pre-emptively identify and resolve problems with mould and damp, based on its successful trial of…
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Infrastructure
Believe Housing and Gamma’s Exactive Cloud
With a change in office location and plans to modernise its working model, Believe Housing chose Exactive’s CloudUCX solution to deliver Microsoft Teams with telephony which allowed the housing provider to get up and running quickly and effectively. Believe Housing was planning to move office location but it had a traditional desk-based telephony system which…
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BCHA boosts IoT infrastructure with Daizy Tech
BCHA is installing IoT-based legionella sensors across its properties in the south west of England, based on an IoT data management platform from Daizy Tech. The housing provider is now also inviting other IoT suppliers to put forward additional ‘smart building’ ideas. The new IoT scheme is the result of a pilot project between the…
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Responding to a cyberbreach – What should you do?
In the last edition of Housing Technology, we looked at the growing threat of ransomware to housing providers, the importance of preparing for a breach and why paying a ransom isn’t the answer. Following best practice and maintaining good cyber-hygiene is critical to reducing your ‘attack surface’. Yet frustratingly, even if an organisation has these…
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20,000 Flagship properties in Switchee IoT deal
Following a two-year pilot project in 500 homes, Flagship Group is installing Switchee smart thermostats in 20,000 of its properties from April 2021 onwards, with the aim of moving closer to a proactive and predictive maintenance strategy. As well as cutting tenants’ fuel bills, data is sent from the Switchee devices via the mobile phone…
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Sophos whitepaper on cyber-security in housing
Sophos has just published a whitepaper, ‘Housing-sector cybersecurity: How to build strong security foundations & respond to cyber incidents in 2021’. The whitepaper profiles three housing providers, Action Housing & Support, Futures Housing and Williamsburgh Housing, and looks at how they have developed their own solutions to the problems of cybersecurity risk, limited budgets and…
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