This issue of Housing Technology has several articles and interviews on how technology is being used to improve fire safety. While fire safety and its associated technologies have historically been more of an area for housing providers’ facilities managers than their IT staff, Housing Technology expects that IT departments will soon be more involved in…
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Infrastructure
Arches Housing’s business continuity with Incline IT’s cloud
Working in partnership with Incline IT, Arches Housing has successfully completed the migration of its on-premise servers to the public cloud. Seamus Harkins, data services manager, Arches Housing, said, “At 30-strong, we are a small team with big ambitions to develop 400 new homes across our region by 2028. Much of the funding for this…
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Connected tenants & connected homes
Housing Technology interviewed representatives from Aareon, AdaptEco, Civica, Hyperoptic and Insite Energy about the alignment of omni-channel communications with smart/IoT-enabled homes to improve tenants’ lives while helping housing providers’ operational performance. What should housing providers do for better communications and more connected tenants? Aareon UK’s head of digital, Tina Kennedy, said, “The number-one priority is…
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Spotlight on CertOn
CertOn is a multi-award-winning software company launched last year, founded from many years’ experience in the new-build property sector around the issuing of certificates and manuals. Our big idea was to be able to instantly find any important property document at any location in a building. CertOn centralises work outputs, enabling tradespeople and end-users to…
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Building pathways on data for better homes
Whichever way you look at it, decarbonising the UK’s housing stock is a gargantuan task. To meet the government’s ‘clean growth strategy’ goals to move all housing stock to EPC ‘grade C’ by 2035 will require homes to be upgraded at a rate of one every two. That would be difficult enough if you were…
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Next-generation IoT in housing
Neal Hooper, Aico’s managing director, and Luke Loveridge, chief executive of Homelync, explain why Aico and Homelync have come together to create safer homes in social housing, the benefits of remote management and the future of housing. Why have Aico and Homelync come together? The internet of things (IoT) has been showing lots of promise…
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