Hafod Housing has introduced a mobile app for the safety of its lone workers. Running on both smartphones and tablets, StaySafe is a panic-button app with a surrounding cloud-based monitoring service that tracks the location of a lone worker via a real-time map and alerts their manager if they don’t check-in within a specified time….
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Mobile Working
L&Q’s performance boost with Kirona
London & Quadrant Housing Trust is now using Kirona’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler across its mobile workforce. L&Q set up its direct maintenance business in 2015 as a pilot project involving just 10 operatives, but this has since grown to a team of 300 covering 50,000 of its properties. The housing provider originally used a slot-based…
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WM Housing’s mobile surveying with Promaster
WM Housing Group has recently implemented Orchard’s Promaster Mobile software as an extension of its existing Promaster asset management system. Prior to the introduction of Promaster Mobile, stock condition data was collected in a variety of ways, with different surveyors each using different paper forms, and the resulting data having to be manually processed at…
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Grand Union on track with Kirona
Since moving to the latest version of Kirona’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS v5), Grand Union Housing Group has increased its scheduled jobs by 46 per cent. Having used an earlier version of DRS since 2014 for its maintenance and repairs teams, Grand Union invited Kirona to review its use of the software following its upgrade…
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Ashford Borough Council on the go with Housing Support Pro
Ashford Borough Council has adopted mobile working for its housing officers with Housing Support Pro’s Client 360 software integrated with its existing Orchard housing management system. By introducing the tablet-based Client 360, which instantly provides tenant details and raises service forms in real-time, the council’s tenancy management and housing officers can now access tenancy and…
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McDougall’s BigChange productivity gains
As part of its provision of reactive repair services to social housing providers, McDougall Group has boosted the productivity of its mobile workforce with the introduction of mobile working software from BigChange. McDougall’s entire mobile operations in central Scotland are managed using BigChange, with the cloud-based system handling all work planning, CRM, scheduling and reporting…
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