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Manufacturers are facing unprecedented cost and risk pressures across all areas of their businesses, especially the supply chain from inputs to energy, labour & logistics. Recent shocks (Brexit, COVID19, Ukraine) have driven further increases that cannot be mitigated from operational improvements alone. Combined with the pressures from new environmental l...

The World Health Organization has recognised Greater Manchester as the UK's first age-friendly city-region. As our population ageing, we need to move faster to create and shape GM as a test bed and vibrant market place for innovators to develop and deploy their products and services to support residents in our communities and neighbourhoods. The Internati...

This project led by Engine B will transform the future of the professional service market by ensuring that all companies and firms, large and small, have access to competitive and innovative next generation digital services. To realise this vision, the platform developed by Engine B will open up what is, an under-served market place of smaller companies w...

"Pathologists are the **doctors who diagnose disease**. To do this, we examine samples (""biopsies"") using a microscope, to decide if a sample shows cancer, and what type of cancer it is. New scanners allow us to create digital images of microscope slides, so we can look at them on computers, and share them between hospitals more easily. This is called *...

Pay-as-you-go solar home systems are rapidly providing clean and affordable power to the 600 million people in Africa who live beyond the grid. These systems allow people to stop burning kerosene for lighting, to charge their mobile phones, and to have their children study safely at home. However, one core component of the system - the battery - can limit...

The TSB Assisted Living Innovation Programme (ALIP) projects that have completed or are currently underway have demonstrated how inexpensive, commodity-based services and devices could support older people, those with long-term conditions and their care networks. As an example, the DAP "Anywhere Anytime" project uses commercial products (Cloud services/He...

Assisting informal carers to deliver the care required whilst not impacting their lives can be delivered by technology only if there is trust in the identity, security and the data held within these systems. Informal carers need strong identity services and the ability to manage access rights and security policies on the sensitive data that is being held,...

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‘Anytime, anywhere’ had the goals of extending health and care services typically developed to be delivered into the home onto mobile devices. In doing so it considered appropriate architectures, interfaces and human factors aspects of information presentation, new service ideas and exploiting multiplatform delivery. The project drew heavily on the output...

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