An Englishman’s home is his castle. To what extent an Englishman’s smart home is his smart castle, we don’t yet know. Where tentative IoT devices are already available, promises and expectations paint a future where technology “merges physical and virtual worlds, creating smart environments to improve lives and enhance wellbeing” (European Commission H2020 Digital Agenda)….
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Infrastructure
Pulsant’s managed network for Argyll Community Housing
Pulsant, a UK hybrid cloud services provider, has completed the installation of a managed network for Argyll Community Housing Association. The network was deployed across ACHA’s eight offices and 10 sheltered housing sites. Pulsant won the contract in 2015 to supply the housing association’s network infrastructure, which covers a wide area across Argyll and Bute…
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Housing CCTV images too poor – Cloudview report
New research from Cloudview has found that a third of housing providers are worried that their CCTV images are too low quality to identify criminals or intruders, even though this is why most of them installed CCTV in the first place. These organisations could also find themselves in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA),…
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Housing heads for the cloud
One of the things I think our sector suffers from is the belief that it is inherently different from all other sectors. But from my point of view, all sectors need to adopt technologies that allow and facilitate growth. In a commercial world, businesses are driven by profit and the need to deliver returns for…
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2017’s top IT security considerations
IT security isn’t news, it’s business critical. Protecting your IT system and the data within it is essential. For any organisation operating in today’s digital landscape, IT security is a very real concern. With stories of high-profile hacks, breaches and data leaks continually making headlines, it’s tempting to think that it’s just the major players…
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Appura’s view of the cloud
Elon Musk on a housing estate. That’s not a place you expect to find the billionaire owner of PayPal, Tesla and Space X, to name just a few of his pastimes. However, this is no ordinary housing estate. It’s a presentation set constructed for the purpose of launching his latest world-changing product called Tesla Solar…
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