A new online "toolbox" will let care providers pick and choose off-the-shelf digital services—like cloud-based health records or remote monitoring tools—and rebrand them as their own. This matters because many small care organisations, charities, and local authorities lack the resources to build their own assisted living technologies from scratch. Previous projects in the same programme have shown that inexpensive, commodity-based services can support older people and those with long-term conditions, but these tools remain fragmented and hard to adopt. The DAP Connect project aims to close that gap by creating a shared framework and data store, so services can work together seamlessly. If successful, the project will test whether this toolbox model can scale in real-life settings. It will also explore different business models—subscription, licensing, or usage-based fees—and examine the cultural and social impact of rebranding generic tools. For small and medium-sized enterprises, the common framework could lower the barrier to entry, allowing them to build innovative add-on services without starting from zero. The result could be a more connected, affordable, and flexible care infrastructure for the informal and statutory care markets.
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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/HealthVault) which use open interfaces to support large scale services. The DAP Connect project, a third round ALIP project, aims to build on these previous ALIP projects to develop unbranded Assisted Living (AL) services or tools that can be downloaded from an online store, a "toolbox", from which service providers in the private, public and third sectors can select services to rebrand for their own use. The DAP Connect project will investigate the potential business and revenue models open to organisations who are new to the assisted living market who wish to provide services to the informal and statutory care markets. Multiple marketing and care co-ordination benefits will arise from connection of a full range of services through sharing a common framework and data store. The project will examine a range of branding, subscription, usage and licensing models and explore their cultural and social impact. The project will test the scalability of deploying AL service models in real-life, at scale. The project will also test the contractual/ procedural and accreditation processes of bringing together services in a common framework or toolbox to small and medium sized enterprises to generate innovative add-on services.
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