Moving to the cloud can play a big part in accelerating your digital transformation programme, enabling you to harness a new suite of opportunities that can help elevate your people and processes. Cloud-based systems also offer the huge advantage of providing easy to implement disaster recovery plans. We recently migrated a large housing provider to…
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Infrastructure
Interview – Amazon Web Services in housing
Housing Technology interviewed Chris Masey, Amazon Web Services’ account manager for the UK public sector and not-for-profit organisations about what AWS offers housing providers, its working culture and how it sees technology in our sector innovating and changing. What was the move from Orchard to Amazon Web Services (AWS) like, and how do they differ?…
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Bron Afon appoints CNT for managed IT services
Central Networks and Technologies has been awarded a multi-year managed IT services contract by Bron Afon Housing. Central’s managed IT contract covers first-, second- and third-line support, with a member of the company’s software engineering team seconded full-time to the housing provider’s head office in Wales. The contract also includes multiple ‘engineering days’ each year…
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The two sides of IoT in housing
When you look at the possibilities of what the internet of things could offer social housing, it’s nothing short of miraculous. Not only would homes be healthier and better maintained, but there would be a lot less stress for both housing providers and their tenants. Furthermore, if the data was shared responsibly, architects, urban designers…
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Connected communities – Reducing fire risk for vulnerable tenants
Maintaining social housing and providing meaningful support to tenants is full of challenges. Fire safety is one of the most important, but it can be one of the most difficult to overcome. FireAngel’s connected homes director, James King, discusses how, with the right technologies, fire prevention and response can become easier, more effective and more…
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Ealing Council’s massive IoT plans with FireAngel
The London Borough of Ealing is currently undertaking a large regeneration programme to transform many of its properties and estates and as part of its plans, the council is implementing one of the biggest IoT roll-outs of its kind by a UK social housing provider through the installation of FireAngel’s Spec Connected products and services…
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