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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Infrastructure
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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Why move to the cloud?
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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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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