Watford Community Housing has teamed up with Localz to roll out real-time operative tracking, with the aim of delivering faster and more flexible repair processes for both its tenants and its repair workers. On the day of their appointment, tenants receive a message when their operative is on their way, with a link to a…
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Mobile Working
Plentific raises $100m funding for expansion
Plentific has raised $100m (£72 million) in ‘Series C’ funding from new investors Highland Europe, Brookfield Technology Partners, Mubadala Investment Company and RXR Digital Ventures alongside existing investors A/O PropTech and Target Global. Plentific plans to use the investment to expand its global footprint and to accelerate its product development around digital transformation in property…
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Untangling risk management
Risk management should be part of all housing providers’ ongoing business operations; after all, taking risks and mitigating those risks is part and parcel of everyone’s daily lives. However, in the context of risk management, it’s worth being a little more specific about what we mean, first to avoid confusion, and second as a way…
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Vivid solves the MDM challenge
Two years ago we were in a right pickle. We’d bought one of the leading mobile data management (MDM) systems and, as we’ve all come across from time to time in our careers, it was a system that had never really got buy-in, wasn’t delivering to its full potential and either needed re-implementing or changing….
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Yorkshire Housing’s drone trials with Vantage UAV
Yorkshire Housing is trialling the use of aerial drones for property inspections across its 18,000 properties as an alternative to expensive scaffolding and mobile work platforms. The trial is part of the government’s ‘Connected Places Catapult’; the national scheme includes a ‘drone pathfinder catalyst’ programme, resulting in the housing provider working with Vantage UAV on…
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Mobile and new ways of working
Housing Technology asked senior executives from Digital Space (formerly Timico), Fortem, NEC Software Solutions (formerly Northgate Public Services) and Places for People on the changes they expect from mobile technologies combined with new ways of working, in the context of repairs and maintenance, dynamic scheduling, remote access, tenant services, productivity and reporting. How has mobile…
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