Chris Deery, head of housing IT at Solihull Community Housing, and Stewart Davison, head of business development for Capita’s software services, consider how the internet of things will change social housing over the next few years. The why – Looking at IoT’s benefits and its business case When I think about smart homes, the first…
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Infrastructure
How secure are your CCTV systems?
Housing providers rely on CCTV to protect their residents and properties. So many property managers will be worried after reading in the national press last month that MI6 is concerned that some CCTV cameras pose a potential threat to national security. The article highlighted that China is Britain’s largest supplier of CCTV equipment and expressed…
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Alliance Homes’ storage solution from Cristie Data
Cristie Data, a data storage, backup and virtualisation solutions provider and part of the Iomart Group, has completed the implementation of a data storage solution at Alliance Homes. Alliance Homes asked Cristie Data to recommend a replacement for its previous storage area network (SAN) and a Nimble Storage CS300 array was chosen to support Alliance…
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Switchee wins £600,000 funding for IoT housing project
Switchee, a ‘clean-tech’ start-up which has developed the first smart thermostat for large social housing providers, has raised over £600,000 in seed funding. The company said that the funding will be used to expand the reach of its smart thermostat technology, which saves tenants money by detecting occupancy and turning heating off when a property…
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Trends for 2017
This issue of Housing Technology marks the end of our ninth year of publishing the magazine. 54 issues and 2,500+ stories later (all available online), we’re taking a look at what to expect in 2017 and beyond as part of our preparations for the forthcoming Housing Technology 2017 report. Aside from ongoing developments and improvements…
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Kensa & Coastline partner on ‘micro district ground source heat network’
Kensa Heat Pumps has partnered with Coastline Housing to deliver Cornwall’s first ‘micro ground-source heat network’ project, attracting income via the Non Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive and slashing tenants’ heating bills. The project also featured the first ‘micro district ground-source heat network’ in Cornwall. Pioneered by Kensa, Coastline’s heat network comprises an individual ground-source heat…
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