Social housing developments are often home to the most vulnerable people, from the elderly who need 24/7 homecare support to those living with disabilities or impairments. In short, IoT makes their homes safer. There are many examples of IoT applications, from devices to detect leaks before they become a problem to smoke detectors being able…
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Go hybrid… Integrate your HMS with Dynamics 365
Within social housing, information management systems play a huge part in the overall satisfaction of both employees and tenants. From property repairs and maintenance to rent accounts, the systems that manage this data are absolutely fundamental, particularly housing management systems. However, the main housing management system (HMS) chosen across the company doesn’t have to manage…
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The art and science of IT budgeting
As we move into 2022, you could be forgiven for confusing a plausibly-named Omicron operating system with Android or Apple’s Monterey. However, we will ignore these and instead look at the financial aspects of running your IT infrastructure and leave well alone the chaos caused by the Omicron and Delta variants. With the Christmas break…
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AI and text analytics
Most successful customer experience (CX) programmes use some form of text analytics to surface insights from huge volumes of unstructured data, such as verbatim comments from customers. The comments come from a variety of sources, such as structured periodic survey feedback, event-driven reviews, customer service calls, emails, chats, social media engagements and online reviews. Using…
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The ethics of smart-home IoT devices
Ethics are absolutely essential when it comes to successful technology adoption and data management in housing. In a sector literally as close to home as one can get, decisions made about the use of technology, how data is managed and which principles and purposes should guide those processes will all have an immense impact on…
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Could digital twins revolutionise housing?
Every sector knows the importance of digital transformation. From aerospace to construction, automated processes and digitally-enabled collaboration tools have gone from being a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’. For the housing sector, digital twins (virtual representations of physical spaces) have been a key part of those digital transformations. At a recent virtual roundtable…
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