Curve IT has launched MDU Connect which enables housing providers to deliver their own internet services to tenants in shared buildings. Curve IT’s package comprises a combination of hardware and specially designed software, including a cloud-based portal, to manage the full network within their buildings. The housing provider-owned network can be used to deliver multiple…
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Clarion Housing appoints Matterlab for digital vision
Clarion Housing Group appointed London-based Matterlab as its partner to develop its digital vision. Matterlab will lead the implementation of some of Clarion’s new digital technologies (including building information management), workflows and tools throughout the housing provider’s operations, starting with its development function. Clarion is currently developing digital strategies to revolutionise how its customers engage…
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A fresh perspective on IoT in housing
Why isn’t the internet of things mainstream yet? For years, it has felt as if the internet of things would revolutionise social housing. So many articles, case studies and great new use-cases have been published, yet years go by with the promise of mainstream adoption being ‘just around the corner’. Housing providers have been running…
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Interview – MRI Software’s post-acquisition plans
Over the past few months, MRI Software has bought Castleton Technology, Orchard Information Systems and, most recently, Housing Partners. Housing Technology interviewed Dermot Briody, MRI Software’s executive managing director for Europe, about the impact of the company’s acquisitions on the UK housing sector. What’s the background to MRI Software? MRI Software has been built up…
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RentSense eases YHN’s lockdown
Your Homes Newcastle is using Mobysoft’s RentSense software to reduce arrears and help it deal with the remote-working aspects of the pandemic as well as cope with a surge of new benefits claimants. Christopher Todd, senior manager for income advice and collection, Your Homes Newcastle, said, “RentSense has helped us mitigate the effects of universal…
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iOpt wins million-pound IoT housing deal
iOpt has won a tender worth up to £1 million with Renfrewshire Council to install real-time IoT devices in the council’s housing stock. The initiative has £150,000 support from the Scottish government’s ‘CanDo’ innovation fund. The two-year project will begin when lockdown restrictions are eased, with IoT sensors being fitted in selected empty properties being…
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