The business case for the adoption of an ‘internet of housing’ strategy by housing providers is now well-proven after numerous trials (see our archive at housing-technology.com), predicated on the installation of IoT devices in tenants’ homes and communal areas coupled to back-office analytics and reporting software. The next stage in the widespread adoption of IoT…
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Editor's Notes
Editor’s Notes – The importance of competition
“A horse never runs so fast as when it has other horses to catch up and outpace.” – Ovid One of the important characteristics of the UK social housing sector, distinguishing it from most other business sectors, is the lack of direct competition between the sector’s participants. Unlike, say, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer or…
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Bad housing data, or how much is ‘Lodnon’ costing you?
This edition of Housing Technology is heavier on ‘data’ than normal, in part owing to our main feature article on data integration and straight-through processing as well as numerous contributed articles from data experts in our sector. In much the same way that a philosophical construct or mathematical theorem is only as strong as its…
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How low can you go?
As we cover in our feature article in this issue, low-code (or even no-code) software promises to bridge the gap between housing providers’ business users’ desire to develop new tools for, say, tenant services, mobile working or straight-through operational processes, and the time and resource limitations of their IT departments. There is much to commend…
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Fire safety technology – Coming to a server near you…
This issue of Housing Technology has several articles and interviews on how technology is being used to improve fire safety. While fire safety and its associated technologies have historically been more of an area for housing providers’ facilities managers than their IT staff, Housing Technology expects that IT departments will soon be more involved in…
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Aiming for business as usual…
As we’ve reported throughout this issue of Housing Technology, our impression is that most housing providers, IT suppliers and their staff are coping admirably well with the impact of coronavirus on their operations. Housing providers’ widespread adoption over the past few years of web-based business applications and cloud/hosted IT services has meant that they have…
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