Smart Assistive Technology Hub
Benefits
Supports independent living for older adults, helps improve mobility, supports people living with dementia, reduces falls and social isolation. Technologies include assistive lighting, automatic medication dispensers, one-pot kettles, self-draining sinks, pillow shakers, sensors, smart water bottles, one-button computers, and robotic therapy pets.
Details
- Tool name
- Smart Assistive Technology Hub
- Organisation
- St Helens Borough Council
- Status
- pilot
- AI method (as recorded)
- Computer Vision, Machine Learning, hybrid
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Computer Vision Machine Learning hybrid
- Usecase
- Health AI
- Origin
- news.sthelens.gov.uk
- Owning team
- St Helens Borough Council Adult Social Care
- Date added
- Scrape date
- 25/09/2026
- Source note
- The smart assistive technology hub has been created at the council's Brookfield Support Centre to showcase technology that helps residents live independently. Currently supporting 38,500 older adults in St Helens with approximately £70m of council budget spent on social care annually. The approach has been shortlisted in the 'Transforming and Innovating Public Services' category at the iNetwork Innovation Awards. [Source]