Totalmobile partners with Norwich City Services Limited to transform housing
04 September 2024
Totalmobile has announced a new partnership with Norwich City Services Limited (NCSL).
As the organisation responsible for the operational delivery and maintenance of Norwich’s streets, parks, and properties, NCSL will be implementing Totalmobile’s Connect, Mobilise, and Protect solutions to enhance the efficiency and responsiveness of their housing repairs and maintenance services.
Find out more Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust trials AI
02 September 2024
Equipment tracking, artificially intelligent CCTV and voice-activated environmental controls are just some of the technologies being trialled at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) to support plans to create a national centre of excellence for rehabilitation.
The digital trials are underway at the Linden Lodge unit at the City Hospital site – a 25-bed unit for patients requiring neuro-rehabilitation – and staff and patients have been heavily involved to develop the technologies to their needs.
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Critical communications – when networks go down
30 August 2024
Duncan Swan, chief operating officer, British APCO
The Microsoft/Crowd Strike issue of 19th July got headlines across most of the world due to the impact of the loss of IT systems and services had on many people’s day-to-day lives. Businesses came to a standstill; transport was disrupted; and healthcare services reverted to pen and paper supporting only the most urgent cases. Away from the UK, it also impacted delivery of critical emergency calls.
IT & comms failures impacting delivery of emergency calls, from those in their time of greatest need to an emergency agency, are becoming ever more prevalent. And the underpinning reason why these failures are occurring is often software failure or upgrade/configuration errors. There is an air of inevitability that systems and services are likely, at some point, to fail. And often not in the way you might expect. Critical service providers must, therefore, take business continuity more seriously than ever before. It’s not just about knowing there is built-in resilience to the core infrastructure; it’s about having robust alternatives that minimise the impact to critical service delivery, with clear communication plans that let those needing emergency assistance know precisely what to do and expect.
Find out more Telent helps connect His Majesty’s (HM) Coastguard
29 August 2024
A £175 million communications network connecting 163 remote radio sites across 11,000 miles of UK coastline is now operational ensuring His Majesty’s (HM) Coastguard’s effective frontline emergency response continues for thousands of distress calls from the UK’s waters.
Stretching from the Shetland Islands to the Isles of Scilly, it is one of the UK’s largest private broadband networks, with technology partner Telent helping to install 1,220km of new infrastructure.
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