How Tessian is helping Coastal Housing prevent mistakes turning into data breaches We all know that we should protect our email systems against the onslaught of spam, malware and sophisticated spear-phishing attacks. It’s practically a career in itself to stay abreast of the latest trends in email compromise techniques, vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits. But what…
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Infrastructure
Cobalt Housing’s IoT for healthy homes & healthy residents
Halfway through 2020, Cobalt Homes approached HomeLink with the objective of carrying out an ambitious multi-sensor IoT project across 100 properties. Cobalt Housing’s technology and transformation manager, Chris Fray, said, “The internet of things should be a central part of every housing provider’s sustainability, environmental, and repair and maintenance (R&M) strategies. Annual R&M is an…
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Lincolnshire Housing goes digital with FourNet
Lincolnshire Housing has awarded a four-year contract to FourNet, a cloud, communication and contact-centre specialist, to support its plans for digital transformation. Following a competitive tendering process via a Crown Commercial Services procurement framework, the contract will focus on providing some of the foundations for Lincolnshire Housing’s cloud-first strategy and agile working across its operations….
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iOpt’s 2,400-home IoT trial in Scotland
iOpt is monitoring 2,400 social homes on behalf of Renfrewshire Council over the next four years for temperature, humidity and carbon-dioxide levels. The council and iOpt have already achieved a positive RoI in terms of repairs and maintenance costs, but the project’s aim is to demonstrate a much wider RoI across the whole of the…
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Data integration and today’s IoT-connected world
Northgate Public Services’ director of housing solutions, Trevor Hampton, explains why meaningful data integration requires a shift in the cultural mindset from the board down. The pandemic has, arguably, forever changed the way we interact; by limiting our interactions in the real world, it has fast-forwarded us into an altered reality where digital dominates. We…
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Southampton’s gigabit broadband from Hyperoptic
Southampton City Council’s tenants now have access to gigabit broadband (over 12x faster than the UK average) from Hyperoptic. Hyperoptic originally installed its network in Southampton in 2016 and has since expanded its reach to the council’s social housing properties. 4,000 council homes now have access to the Hyperoptic network, with a further 2,000 properties…
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