Housing Technology interviewed Joanna Sedley-Burke, the managing director of Sovereign Business Integration Group, about the company’s focus on cost reductions and security for its social housing customers and its introduction of new ‘as a service’ options. What is Sovereign’s involvement and experience in the social housing sector? Sovereign is an independent technology company providing a…
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Infrastructure
Castleton’s new CEO
Castleton Technology has announced that it has appointed Dean Dickinson as its new chief executive officer. Dickinson was previously managing director of Advanced Business Solutions, part of Advanced Computer Software Group (ACS), and he was on the senior management team that sold ACS to Vista Private Equity for £725 million in March 2015. Dean Dickinson,…
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Psychology and IoT security
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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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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