Flagship Group has just started a pilot project to use Wacom Clipboards among its housing teams in Norfolk and Suffolk. The electronic clipboards combine paper form-filling with real-time data capture and are connected to the housing officers’ mobile phones and from there to Flagship’s back-office systems. The three-month trial is expected to demonstrate a variety…
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Mobile Working
StaySafe app for Aspire’s lone workers
Aspire Housing replaces its dedicated safety devices with a smartphone ‘StaySafe’ app to protect and monitor its lone workers. StaySafe is an app and surrounding cloud-based monitoring service which tracks a lone workers’ locations on a real-time map and alerts their manager if they don’t check-in within a specified time. The app works on iOS…
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EMH connects with Cloud Dialogs
The amalgamation of four housing providers into EMH Group has led to the organisation completely revamping its IT systems, including the implementation of Cloud Dialog’s Service Connect for repairs reporting, scheduling and mobile working. Helen Bradford, group head of ICT, EMH Group, said, “We recognised early on that we needed completely new IT systems to…
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Thinking smarter about voids
Neil Harvey, CTO of Kirona, explores how housing providers can turn periods between tenants around more effectively and use IoT technology to minimise void periods. Void. It’s an unpopular word in most sectors and settings, and the housing industry is no exception. Empty properties equate to immediate lost revenues since no rent is collected, but…
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The impact of mobile technology in housing
Mobile technology is rapidly developing and early-adopting housing providers are already seeing the benefits to their frontline staff, field service operators and their customers. Capability is developing all the time and some technology specialists are working directly with housing providers to provide systems exactly tailored to the housing sector. There are three elements that make…
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4Solo launches contractor compliance software
4Solo has recently launched Comply Tag and CompTrain for housing providers to automatically record in one online database all work undertaken on their properties and for real-time compliance checking. Comply Tag enables users to set up tags to monitor every aspect of work undertaken on a property or site, with their contractors then downloading a…
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