Over the past week, thousands of organisations have shut their offices and rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies. Thousands of workers already work remotely, but for many of us this will be the first time we’ve experienced working from home. We thought we’d put together a list of our top tips for anyone working from home….
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Vericon launches intelligent IoT boiler monitoring
Vericon Systems has launched BCM:Connect, an intelligent universal device which monitors a boiler’s health and status in real time and predicts when it might fail to allow preventative maintenance. Targeted at housing providers and those with responsibility for tenants’ welfare, the device records and sends intelligent performance data to the cloud or an internal management…
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Community Fibre upgrades social housing broadband
Community Fibre, a social housing-specific broadband provider, has announced an upgrade of its full-fibre packages available to housing providers, primarily in London. The new packages range from 1Gb/s (£50/month) to 50Mb/s (£20/month), which the company says are the most affordable and competitive rates in London. Graeme Oxby, CEO, Community Fibre, said, “Broadband has become an…
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What3words for Safepoint
Safepoint has partnered with What3Words to add the company’s brilliantly simple way to denote locations to its lone-worker app. What3words has divided up the world into a grid of 3m squares that can each be identified by three simple words. For example, Housing Technology’s headquarters is ///decent.salad.faster, while Safepoint’s offices can be found at ///calm.gives.comet….
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Orchard buys InterNETalia for repairs and maintenance
Orchard has bought InterNETalia and its well-known AccuServ software to strengthen its end-to-end repairs and maintenance solutions for housing providers and contractors. The two companies described Orchard AccuServ Repairs & Maintenance as a single solution for recording, scheduling and managing repairs, emergency and planned work, voids and compliance jobs. It makes job and sub-contractor management…
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Unboxed unwraps faster housing repairs for Hackney Council
Hackney Council has streamlined the reporting and fixing of its 15,000 annual housing-related leaks by 35 per cent through a new microservices architecture and revamped user interface from Unboxed. The housing repairs service at Hackney Council had built up an infrastructure of legacy software platforms, including Civica’s Universal Housing, Servitor and Kirona’s DRS, all resulting…
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