Social housing properties across Peterborough have been transformed into a ‘smart city’ pilot project between Cross Keys Homes and CityFibre. The project will explore how a network of sensors deployed throughout Cross Keys Homes’ properties could monitor health, safety and environmental factors as well as deliver cost savings. The trial at three residential locations in…
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Infrastructure
iOpt gains £600k investment for housing IoT development
Technology start-up iOpt has received a £600,000 seed-funding boost for its housing-focused IoT plans. Established in 2016 in Glasgow, iOpt uses data analytics, smart sensors and IoT technology to enable housing providers to remotely monitor the internal environment of their property assets. iOpt’s bespoke algorithms and machine-learning techniques predict when and where issues such as…
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Trends driving digital disruption
The adoption of public cloud technology in the housing sector has been slower than initially predicted, largely due to concerns around security, latency, vendor lock-in and cost control. The emergence of multi-cloud is set to combat these barriers by offering housing providers the ability to balance workload across edge, private cloud and public cloud environments,…
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Synapse360’s hyper-perfect Dell EMC solution for Bernicia
Bernica has completed its migration to a new Dell EMC ‘hyper-converged’ infrastructure, with the deployment carried out by Synapse360. Adam Watson, network and infrastructure manager, Bernicia Housing, said, “Following sustained growth, our old Nimble infrastructure was creaking at the seams. Performance was erratic, we didn’t have the IOPs we needed, we were running out of…
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Gaining Cyber Essentials certification at Link
As part of our on-going work towards digital security, Link Group has recently been accredited with the Cyber Essentials certification. The government-backed scheme helps organisations ensure adherence with security best practice for protection against the most common cyber-attacks. Cyber Essentials seeks to help businesses defend against most cyber-attacks, attacks which are generally very basic in…
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Dumfries & Galloway’s unified comms with Castleton
Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership has awarded a unified communications contract to Castleton Technology as part of an ongoing digital transformation programme. As part of a seven-year contract, Castleton is providing an end-to-end managed service, with the foundations of the project involving the migration of DGHP’s everyday ICT operations away from its legacy on-premise systems…
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