What do you think about data standards in social housing? Are they unnecessary or urgently needed? How could data standards help your internal and external operations? What’s the role of the social housing sector’s IT suppliers to support data standards? And how and where would you actually use data standards within your housing operations? These…
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Infrastructure
The social value of home sensor systems
Aico has recently collaborated with the University of Exeter on a series of guides exploring the use of home sensor systems and how housing providers can gain social value from them. Sam Collier, HomeLink’s head of market intelligence, provided expertise, information and costings for the social return on investment (RoI) models used throughout these guides….
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Real-time fire safety
Advances in technology are not only making fire detection more effective and reliable, but also smarter and more integrated with other smart home devices. Traditional fire detection for housing is based on standalone smoke and heat detectors that trigger alarms when they sense the presence of smoke or a rapid increase in temperature. While generally…
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Project success – Do less, be efficient & provide clarity
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway The balancing act: juggling time, cost, and quality There’s a saying that all projects have three main factors: time, cost and quality. Stakeholders usually have…
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Ahead in the cloud – Southern Housing’s million-pound savings with HTG
Following a migration from on-premise services to Citrix Cloud in 2019, Southern Housing Group was experiencing poor performance and a sub-standard experience for its end-users. Worried that this would affect its services to internal users and external customers, the housing providers arranged a full Citrix health check via Howell Technology Group (HTG). This included identifying…
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Cyber challenges in housing
Research shows that cyber criminals are actively targeted the housing sector, probably because it’s undergone significant digital transformation. As expected, this transition has coincided with a 20 per cent rise in cyber attacks against the sector as of October 2023, highlighting the growing threat posed to the sector by offensive cyber operations. Housing organisations are…
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