Kidmote

Inspiration

We want to develop an intelligent, cool and affordable smart toy for children 3-7

useful for parents to gain precious time knowing the children are engaged in fun educational activities, smart games, school lessons or hearing stories for 2-3 hours, moving around the house too. It is the SMART alternative to passive screen time.

What it does

Interactive pal: talks to the child, recognises voice orders (yes, no... cuddles) tells bedtime stories; Guides children through a set of age appropriate activities offline and online learning and playing activities; Accesses selected educational programmes, safety and violence prevention education, entertainment programs; Accesses smart TVs Apps and reports activities to App in parents’ smartphone; Monitors time spent on different activities including off screen to encourage healthy use; Has movement sensors to detect activities, as well as and whether it gets thrown or locked away; Could have panic function (protection).

How I built it

Kidmote has: a USB charger, a SIM with no additional costs and/or an EPSP32 for BT and WiFi connection → for receiving upgrading and/or weekly contents and for tracking the progress of the child through a free App on parents’ devices.

Challenges I ran into

We want to address 3 problems children and parents face during lockdowns more so for poorer families:

1. Attainment gap for children associated with school closures particularly affects poorest families - losing a third of the school year amounts to a loss of twice as much for poorest children
2. Family mental health and tensions . Tensions and domestic violence issues on increase in lockdowns
3. Productivity gap for all working parents who now need to do childcare alongside remote work

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We have built some interesting partnership with Pearson Education who have expressed interest in supporting the project for the provision of age and country appropriate educational content addressing both cognitive and non-cognitive skills development  include access to content designed by BOT storytelling and games organizations expert in children mental health and in empowering children to deal with and shelter themselves from violence connect with other current EU projects

What I learned

We have to innovate and build tech for all the children

What's next for Kidmote

Help us founding and doing it

Built With

• english