{"id":1061,"date":"2019-03-28T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:33:07","slug":"knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-extracare-introduces-assistive-technologies-to-retirement-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-extracare-introduces-assistive-technologies-to-retirement-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Transfer Partnership with ExtraCare Charitable Trust introduces smart technologies to retirement villages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In April 2018, UWE Bristol announced a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with ExtraCare Charitable Trust<\/a> to help incorporate innovative technologies into its properties for the benefit of residents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s recently opened ‘Stoke Gifford Village’ in Frenchay is home to an innovation apartment which showcases the use of devices such as smart kettles, a body dryer, remote-controlled blinds, video doorbells, integrated with intelligent sensing, to develop and demonstrate practical smart solutions to support active ageing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The innovation apartment, next to UWE Bristol’s Frenchay campus, allows ExtraCare Charitable Trust and the KTP team to trial the technology and gather data on how users interact with the systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s Executive Director of Marketing and Innovation Henriette Lyttle, said, \u201cOur vision is to enable better lives for older people and to create sustainable communities that provide homes older people want and lifestyles they can enjoy. This KTP is an opportunity to pioneer the integration of technologies into our retirement villages in order to increase quality of life and prolong independent living.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Resident using the video doorbell in the innovation apartment <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Prof Praminda Caleb-Solly, Professor of Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Health Technologies at Bristol Robotics Laboratory<\/a>, part of UWE Bristol, who is the academic supervisor leading the KTP commented: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are privileged to be working with ExtraCare Charitable Trust and to have the opportunity of testing, trialling and co-designing with residents and carers. This project will enable us to make a positive impact on supporting people as they age.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ExtraCare Charitable Trust is the UK\u2019s leading not-for-profit developer of housing for over 55s. Since 1988, they’ve operated retirement villages and smaller housing developments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more about KTPs here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\npartnership received financial support from the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships\nprogramme (KTP).  KTP aims to help businesses to improve their\ncompetitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge,\ntechnology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base.  This\nsuccessful Knowledge Transfer Partnership project, funded by UK Research and\nInnovation through Innovate UK, is part of the government\u2019s Industrial\nStrategy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In April 2018, UWE Bristol announced a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with ExtraCare Charitable Trust to help incorporate innovative technologies into its properties for the benefit of residents. ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s recently opened ‘Stoke Gifford Village’ in Frenchay is home to an innovation apartment which showcases the use of devices such as smart kettles, … Continue reading “Knowledge Transfer Partnership with ExtraCare Charitable Trust introduces smart technologies to retirement villages”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":145,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,1450,145,127,108],"tags":[157,146,150,96,156,149,147,154,158,151,796,46,1449,155,159,148,114,74,75,420],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-transfer-partnership","category-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","category-ktp","category-research-business-innovation","category-technology","tag-adult-social-care","tag-assistive-living","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory","tag-brl","tag-charity","tag-dr-praminda-caleb-solly","tag-extracare","tag-extracare-charitable-trust","tag-independent-living","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnership","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","tag-ktp","tag-ktps","tag-older-people","tag-retirement-communities","tag-stoke-gifford","tag-technology","tag-uwe","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-ktp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}