Castlehill Housing Association has signed an enterprise agreement for mobile workforce management software from 1st Touch. The software will be used by housing officers and maintenance workers to access and update back-office information on tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices. 1st Touch mobile was chosen because it had an existing integration with the Aareon housing…
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Mobile Working
Spirit Data Capture gets a good reception at Peaks & Plains
Peaks and Plains Housing Trust is now using Motorola PDAs running Windows Mobile 6.5 and MobiControl device management software from SOTI for its 80 mobile workers, following recommendations from Spirit Data Capture. Simon Penaluna, assistant director of ICT, Peaks and Plains Housing Trust, said, “We wanted mobile devices that would be semi-rugged and could be…
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Free NDL mobile survey applications from Medway Council
Users of NDL’s awiMX mobile development platform can now tap into an extensive library of property survey applications developed specifically for housing providers and local councils. Developed for Medway Council by Blue Diamond Internet Systems, the library currently comprises ten survey types. Existing surveys can be quickly tailored to local requirements and new ones easily…
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Calico Group signs with Connexion2
Connexion2 has also supplied 150 Identicom devices to Calico Group, including a number of units with ‘Man Down’ detection, again as part of the company’s SoloProtect package. Calico previously used mobile phones, combined with an emergency code, to raise an alarm should a lone worker feel threatened, but these were cumbersome and unreliable. In addition,…
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Vale of Aylesbury workers safer with Connexion2
Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust is the first to adopt Connexion2’s Identicom Series 8 lone worker devices. The new devices are in the form of an ID badge and enable staff working in potentially dangerous situations or locations to discreetly raise an alarm if needed. The Identicom devices were bought as part of the company’s…
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More recruitment at 1st Touch
1st Touch has added another five recruits to its expanding team, across sales, implementations and support. John Fawcett has been appointed as a new business account manager for the south of England and Wales, joining from leading Microsoft reseller Ciber. Robert Vaughan joins 1st Touch as a project manager. He joins from Arqiva where he…
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