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11 SMEs join three new healthy ageing testbeds
Connected Places Catapult is pleased to welcome 11 new SMEs to our Homes for Healthy Ageing Programme to test their innovations and technologies in our next three testbeds
After launching a successful open call for UK SMEs, we have selected 11 SMEs from a total of 56 applications. The 11 SMEs offer a range of products and services from Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven health tech solutions to innovative mobility solutions.
The next phase of the Homes for Healthy Ageing programme will explore themes around social connectedness and independence in later life, as well as greater efficiencies in formal and informal care provision for older adults.
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Leeds Cohort:
- Centaur Robotics – A two-wheeled, self-balancing chair using intelligent software that supports day-to-day running. It has a powered lifting column that elevates you to eye level, extending your reach.
- Treasured Times – The Treasure Book app and tablet helps to boost independence in a range of care settings. It provides personalised content, a messaging service, and sends important reminders.
- Active Orbit – An app that tracks active minutes (walking, running, cycling) in exchange for Orbit Rewards. These rewards can be exchanged in local shops, businesses, clubs, and charities.
- onHand – onHand make volunteering simple by offering services at a super low cost to businesses, and therefore gets everyone on the team volunteering and helping in the community.
Brighton & Hove Cohort:
- Tendertec – A care assistant platform, ‘Hestia’, supports ageing well without the use of wearables. Through the power of AI, Tendertec aims to give one billion people a better ageing journey.
- GG Care – Transforming an Amazon Alexa into a virtual care companion to help older adults complete everyday life activities, by breaking down tasks into digestible steps.
- Kraydel – Konnect’ is a TV-based video calling system with a fully featured Internet of Things (IoT) platform. It is integrated with a range of medical and well-being devices, designed to improve social connectivity and support independence for older adults.
Essex Cohort:
- Thriving.ai – A digital platform that transforms communication, coordination & data collection to save time, money and improve care.
- MiiCare – A preventative care solution that leverages the power of AI and digital therapeutics. It uses a digital health coach and a holistic platform, to enable care providers to personalise and validate care efficiently.
- Lilli – A software platform that encourages independent and safe living. It enables front-line workers to make more informed decisions using non-intrusive remote monitoring technology.
- MyHelp – A digital tool that provides individuals with a personalised web platform and mobile app. It focuses on their needs whilst strengthening the relationship with professionals involved in their care.
Location Partners
Together with our new location partners in Leeds, Brighton & Hove, and Essex, we are demonstrating the role that innovation, collaboration and a human centred approach can play in accelerating the development of healthy, age-friendly homes. We will be delivering 3 testbeds to explore the following challenge areas:
- Leeds City Council: Improving health and well-being through social connectedness
- University of Brighton and Brighton & Hove City Council: Helping unpaid carers
- Essex County Council: Improving efficiencies and communication in care provision
“We are very excited to be working with our SME partners GG Care, Kraydel, and Tendertec in support of our ambition that everyone in Brighton u0026amp; Hove will be able to age well and be helped to live independently in the community thanks to services and knowledge that connect them with their communities.”Dr Theo Fotis – Reader, University of Brighton
“We’re looking forward in Essex to working with our chosen SMEs to trial new technology and further develop our Dengie Neighbourhood offer. This will continue to build on our ambition of integrated community teams across Mid Essex and build into our strategic aims as a local authority to level up the County and ensure Essex residents receive the best service from us as possible.”Michael Farrell – Integration and Partnership Locality Lead, Essex County Council
To find out more about the Homes for Healthy Ageing programme, get in touch at homesforhealthyageing@cp.catapult.org.uk.
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Milton Keynes Accelerator Demo Day
Celebrate with us the culmination of the first Milton Keynes Accelerator.
Event finished: 16th November 2022
Event Details
Join us on the 16th of November for the Milton Keynes Accelerator Demo Day! A programme sponsored by Milton Keynes Council and powered by Connected Places Catapult.
The programme which was designed to support post-Covid recovery and Milton Keynes’ ambitious commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2030, sourced and selected a cohort of 10 disruptive SMEs. They addressed challenges relating to sustainable mobility, renewable energy and air quality, infrastructure resilience and community engagement.
Demo Day will provide a forum for the cohort to showcase their businesses, demonstrate how they can collaborate with industry and local government and share their future roadmap as they continue to scale their partnerships with the Council and partners such as Amey, Centre MK, Socius Group and Elisa among others.
Why join as an investor?
Come and meet the brilliant entrepreneurs that took part in the programme
Get to know the latest smart city trends
You’re interested in rubbing elbows with founders, executives, and investors
Why join as an industry player?
Discover new innovative solutions that can help your company deliver better, more resilient and greener projects
Create valuable connections with other players in transport, infrastructure and sustainability
Agenda
15:30 Registration & Networking
16:00 Welcome
16:10 SME presentations
17:00 Exhibition, Networking & Buffet
18:30 Close
You can download the cohort brochure to find out more below.
If you have any questions, please reach out to:
Andrea Perez Cipollitti – Accelerator Programme Manager andrea.pcipollitti@cp.catapult.org.uk
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Green machines: can drones help achieve net zero?
From military tools to hobbyists’ playthings to filmmakers’ dreams, the uses for drones are many and varied. But could they be a gift from above in the quest for a greener planet?
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Green machines: can drones help achieve net zero?
From military tools to hobbyists’ playthings to filmmakers’ dreams, the uses for drones are many and varied. But could they be a gift from above in the quest for a greener planet?
You don’t need to be an environmental scientist to know that the UK’s overcrowded roads increase damaging emissions. Nor, however, do you need to be an expert in aviation or infrastructure to picture the problems that need to be solved before drones can populate our skies effectively and safely.
There are logistical issues: what will the drones transport? Who controls their routes and how? Who funds the drones and the systems surrounding them? How do you change the public perception of something often seen as a nuisance or a menace? And how do you stop them colliding with manned aircraft, tall structures, and each other?
Thankfully, the consortium, which sits under the UKRI’s Future Flight Challenge programme, is full of experts across several relevant fields. It comprises nine partners: Thales, Cranfield University, Cranfield Airport Operations, Inmarsat, Altitude Angel, Ocado Group, Blue Bear, Satellite Applications Catapult and Connected Places Catapult. These bodies also represent the interests and perspectives of government, large industry, SMEs, the research sector, and end users.
With its collective knowledge – and a £125m funding kitty – Airspace of the Future has identified ‘enablers’ that will help overcome these hurdles. These include changing public perception of drones and gaining acceptance of their greater use, suggesting and securing regulation and legislation, making a business case for greater use of autonomous aviation, and identifying and developing the necessary technology.
It is producing reports and white papers across multiple subjects, and, excitingly, will conduct simulated and live trials later in the project.
Information on those trials will be published nearer the time. Meanwhile, we recommend that you watch Connected Places Catapult’s webinar on Airspace of the Future’s mission and plans, which gives an overview of the consortium’s work, graphic representations of both the issues and goals, and a more in-depth discussion of its work.
