Insite Energy has been chosen by Genesis Housing to manage metering, credit billing and prepayments for its 4,500 heat network-connected properties across London and the South East of England. The four-year contract is reported to be worth £1.7 million. Genesis Housing’s de-centralised energy and heat-metering framework contract will see around 75 per cent of its…
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Infrastructure
Secured by design
In this article, Jon Cole, chief operating officer of Secured by Design, the national police crime prevention initiative, looks at how visitor and access control systems can keep tenants safe in blocks of flats while providing landlords and the police with an unprecedented opportunity to investigate system misuse. Having a way of controlling who can…
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Partick Housing gets ‘desktop as a service’ from Castleton
Partick Housing Association has appointed Castleton Managed Services to deliver a cloud-based, fully-hosted ‘desktop as a service’, built on a Citrix XenApp architecture hosted in one of Castleton’s ‘tier III+’ UK datacentres. The project began in June 2017 and the new service is scheduled to go live later this year. Elaine Lewty, ICT business services…
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Penetration testing in housing
Housing Technology interviewed Toby Reynolds, a security consultant and penetration tester for Insomnia Security, about what housing providers should be considering in the context of cyber-security and data protection. What are the cyber-security and data protection aspects specific to social housing? There are lots of similarities with social housing and other companies. This can be…
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Sanctuary’s ongoing SAP programme
Six months ago, Housing Technology interviewed Sanctuary Group’s director of technology, Kevin Heslop, about the organisation’s implementation of the SAP-based OneSanctuary system (see Housing Technology, January 2017). We can now find out how the business is managing the new system and what the future holds for one of the housing sector’s largest SAP implementations. Six…
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Notting Hill Housing awards £10m contract to Novosco
Cloud-services provider Novosco has secured a five-year deal worth over £10 million with Notting Hill Housing to provide a range of IT services, including service support and delivery, application management, ICT commodity services and strategic planning. Other Novosco customers in the social housing sector include Swan Housing, Northwards Housing and Radius Group. Andrew Muir, group…
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