Mid Devon Council has completed a project to install Aico’s SmartLink Gateway, HomeLink Dashboard and IoT technologies into all of its tower blocks to improve resident safety, particularly around fire and carbon monoxide (CO) protection. The council almost immediately recognised the benefits of Aico’s system when it received an alert of high levels of CO…
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The human value of technology in social housing
By Ian Cowley, Principal Data Engineer at Amido. With vulnerable people accounting for a significant proportion of housing association tenants, the social housing sector has a duty of care that reaches far beyond simply providing shelter. As the burden falls on facilities managers and staff to services thousands of properties and tenants’ needs, there’s a…
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More IQ & Propeller Powered partner for scheduling & compliance
More IQ and Propeller Powered have announced a collaboration to offer, respectively, dynamic job scheduling and compliance management via a single user interface. More IQ specialises in reactive scheduling and optimisation software for housing providers’ mobile workforces, while Propeller Powered focuses on compliance management across all areas of statutory compliance including fire safety, gas and…
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Housing Technology 2022 in review
Back together again This year’s Housing Technology annual conference (2-3 March) was very special because we were back in -person at The Oxford Belfry once again and also broadcasting live to our digital audience. Our last in-person conference in 2020 was the last business/IT event most of our community attended just before we went into…
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Housing Insight’s RentsConnect
Housing Insight has launched RentsConnect to revolutionise the way in which housing providers interact with their tenants. Part of the software provider’s PanConnect suite of products, RentsConnect replaces static weekly reports and temporary case notes with a system that lets staff communicate with housing management systems and other databases in real time and without duplication…
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North Wales Housing first in Wales to launch Futr’s AI chatbot
North Wales Housing has become the first housing provider in Wales to launch a conversational AI chatbot from Futr. The chatbot, named Huw, sits on the website and is designed to answer a range of tenant queries at any time in just a few clicks. Since its adoption, Huw has improved tenant engagement and access…
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