The University of Exeter has partnered with Aico, Coastline Housing and Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (HACT) to publish a guide and toolkit for housing providers to assess and realise the social value of IoT sensors in their tenants’ homes. Entitled ‘Sensor systems for healthier social housing – A guide to understanding & evaluating the social…
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Housing IT standard from HACT
HACT has launched version 1.0 of its free data standard for housing IT. Created in conjunction with 17 housing providers, the data standard focuses on core tenant data, and the voids and allocations process. It includes a reference data model, data exchange standards, supporting documentation, and implementation business cases. Andrew van Doorn, chief executive, HACT,…
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The future is bots…
Last month, at a tech meet up in London, a group of developers, entrepreneurs and the generally ‘tech curious’ got together to get their heads around all the excitement and hype surrounding the forthcoming ‘rise of the bots’. “Bots”, one excited digital engagement manager informed me, “will be everywhere by the end of the year.”…
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App-based mapping in housing
The success of HACT’s Community Insight – affordable, GIS-powered community profiling and housing data-mapping software now used by more than half of the largest 150 housing providers in the UK – demonstrates the value of carefully-focused feature sets, workflow integration, immediate cost savings through implementation, and low training and installation overheads. One of the biggest…
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Building the connected social home
Intelligent heating systems like Google’s Nest have launched the internet of things into the mainstream but how can this technology be harnessed to transform service delivery for housing providers and how can we build the connected social home? Back in June 2015, the Connected Home Consortium (a partnership of 15 housing providers interested in IoT…
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Internet of Things pilot project by the Connected Home Consortium
The Connected Home Consortium is running a series of pilot projects to assess how the Internet of Things could help with tenancy and asset management applications. The first pilot focuses on sensor technology to help manage tenancy issues related to temperature, damp and condensation in housing providers’ properties. The consortium is using Blue Maestro’s Tempo…
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