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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Infrastructure
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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A mould bomb is coming…
Usually, I am hesitant to write about issues that could be seen as a fear-mongering warning, but not in this case. There is a ‘mould bomb’ coming for every housing provider in the UK and unfortunately, it has teeth – ‘Fitness for Human Habitation Legal Disrepair’ teeth, to be specific. Over the last two years,…
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Aico buys Homelync
Aico, a leader in fire and CO detection systems, has bought Homelync, an award-winning ‘smart home’ integration and analytics company, with the two companies heralding the acquisition as an important milestone for housing providers looking for IoT-based connected solutions. Neal Hooper, managing director, Aico, said, “Aico and Homelync is a perfect partnership, with Aico being…
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Social value and hyperfast broadband
What does social value mean? Social value is widely embedded into project calculations, not just within housing providers but also in local authorities, central government and devolved governments across the UK. Many procurement exercises now include social value weightings in their tender documents, and boards increasingly want to demonstrate how their organisation contributes to creating…
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Accelerating cloud-based transformation at Housing Plus
One of the many impacts of the pandemic is certain to be an acceleration in changes that we have already witnessed in consumer behaviour and customer expectations over the past decade. After a long period with very little choice other than to use self-serve, online and digital as default, it is not unreasonable to expect…
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