Dame Hackitt’s independent review of building regulations and fire safety, combined with the release of the draft Building Safety Bill and the recent formation of the National Construction Products Regulator, continue to drive cultural and regulatory changes throughout our sector regarding the safety and suitability of residential buildings, particularly high-rise structures. FireAngel’s connected homes director,…
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Infrastructure
Bad housing data, or how much is ‘Lodnon’ costing you?
This edition of Housing Technology is heavier on ‘data’ than normal, in part owing to our main feature article on data integration and straight-through processing as well as numerous contributed articles from data experts in our sector. In much the same way that a philosophical construct or mathematical theorem is only as strong as its…
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Cloud-powered postal mailings
McKinsey Group estimates that the pandemic has accelerated the pace of digital transformation by seven years, and TechUK reported last year how it had seen two years’ digital transformation taking place within just a fortnight. Remote working, while enforced for many of us, has also been a strong catalyst for digital adoption. Cloud has been…
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FireAngel’s next-generation gateway
FireAngel has launched its New Generation Cellular Gateway enabling housing providers to offer higher levels of protective and preventative fire safety. Using FireAngel’s Smart RF technology, the New Generation Cellular Gateway wirelessly connects smoke, heat and carbon-monoxide alarms in a property to FireAngel’s Connected cloud-based platform. Housing providers can then monitor when alarms are triggered,…
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Being ‘cloud smart’ to support tenants
“The cloud – isn’t that just servers in someone else’s data centre?” A sensible question and, in reality, it’s exactly that. Instead of locating your server infrastructure in your offices, you locate it in someone else’s. Instead of your team monitoring, managing, cooling, powering and upgrading the servers, you’re paying someone else to do so,…
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Interview – Vivid changes with Teams Direct Routing… and headsets
Gamma’s public sector director, Sam Winterbottom, interviewed Rob Poyser, Vivid Homes’ infrastructure operations manager about the housing provider’s use of Microsoft Teams Direct Routing. In the January 2021 issue of Housing Technology, we looked at how Microsoft Teams has provided an easy route by which housing providers can adopt unified communications as a service. We…
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