Award-winning products in each category

Breastfeeding and Eating Section

Items related to feeding and eating of children

Grand Prize

MeNew, an application that automatically creates menus for up to one week(Meanyu Corporation)

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AI automatically creates menus for up to one week based on nutritional science. A shopping list is also created at the same time. Allergy food exclusions and baby food are also supported.

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It automatically creates a week's worth of menus in seconds and gives families with children advice on how to prepare them. The menu support for the three meals each day is designed to avoid wasting nutritional food and ingredients. Although the duration of the baby food requirement is short, it is not necessary to use a meal plan at this time of the year when it is very demanding.

Excellence Award

Home delivery service of infant meals for parents and children "homeal(HOMEAL Corporation)

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Provides frozen toddler meals recommended by a registered dietitian, customized for each family based on a toddler food assessment. Delivered in portions that are gently seasoned and can be eaten by both parent and child.

Nursing Notebook(Karada Note Co., Ltd.)

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An application to easily record breastfeeding and care. Information can be shared with family members. Features a function to praise the person taking care of the baby, and a weekly summary.

Learning and Play Division

Related to learning and play

Grand Prize

LOVOT(GROOVE X Corporation)

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A family-type robot that watches over the physical and mental development of children and accompanies them when they are lonely, it is equipped with more than 50 sensors, expressive eyes, and emotional voice and behavior, enabling it to communicate with a sense of life.

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The robot not only helps children develop emotional and social skills, but also has healing and relaxing effects, and has potential for expansion in the field of education. Increasing children's affinity with robots at an early age is necessary for the future of human society.

Excellence Award

wonderbox(WonderLab Inc.)

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A distance learning service that combines a kit of educational materials delivered monthly with a dedicated app that handles the STEAM education field across the board, fostering children's thinking ability and sensitivity through learning in line with their own interests.

Roller-computer(T.D.S. Replug Division, Inc.)

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IoT educational toy that displays characters on a smartphone screen by rolling a wooden Hiragana block with embedded RFID tags. Original games can also be developed.

Safety measures and watchdog department

Those that watch over the safety and growth of children, and those that provide personnel and places to watch over them.

Grand Prize

hugsafety Noon Sleep Monitoring Service(hugmo inc.)

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Non-contact wireless mat with air sensor monitors body movement and breathing during nap. Easy input of nap check records by caregivers, and output in various formats for submission to local government agencies.

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As in the previous year, the cordless design is highly appreciated and is safe because it does not come in direct contact with the body. Also, the fact that records can be converted into a format for submission to the local government may help improve operations. The fact that the system is linked to other Hagumo services and is therefore highly versatile is also highly evaluated.

Excellence Award

baby monitor(EMC Healthcare Corporation)

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AI monitors and automatically records nocturnal sleep using a ceiling-mounted camera and tablet app. One camera can monitor up to 10 people. Compatible with various formats for submission to local governments.

Family album "Mitene"(Mixi Corporation)

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An album application for family sharing of children's photos and videos. Unlimited upload capacity. Free and automatic creation of a movie recording of each season's photos. Photo books and DVDs can also be created without hassle.

Fertility and Pregnancy Department

Relates to the mother, her partner and other people around her and the environment during pregnancy and postpartum period, from the person who wants to conceive to the mother and her partner.

Grand Prize

Fami-One, a Pregnancy Concierge Service Using LINE(Fami-One Corporation)

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This service allows "all people who are doing fertility management," from those who have just started fertility management to those who are doing IVF, to receive support from specialists such as certified infertility nurses, clinical psychologists, culturists, and NPO Fine-certified peer counselors.

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It is easy to use LINE as a platform. It is wonderful that a credible media and community on infertility and fertility is being established.
Careful handling is needed in areas that require safety and peace of mind. Collaboration with various companies and local governments can be expected in the future.

Excellence Award

Konotoki - Predicting Ovulation Date with Basal Body Temperature and Menstruation(Amane Factory Co., Ltd.)

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Fertility support application. By inputting menstrual information, it automatically predicts fertile days and communicates them to couples. Provides free support necessary for conception, including ovulation date prediction, daily physical condition management, management of treatment such as hospital visits, medication, and injections, and fertility advice supervised by experts.

Baby Calendar(Baby Calendar Inc.)

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Provides safe and reliable information on pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare, supervised by doctors and experts, to pregnant pre-moms and parenting moms and dads free of charge. The "day-by-day" function displays the number of weeks of pregnancy and the number of days until the expected delivery date, as well as the number of days since the child's birth date, allowing the user to feel the growth of the child.

Health Care Department

Child health care and records, related to pediatric health records

Grand Prize

piyo log(PiyoLog Inc.)

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A childcare record application that can be shared in real time by married couples. It can be easily operated with one hand or voice, and can record milk, diaper changes, sleep, etc. It has a full range of functions for recording and checking the baby's growth, including a nursing timer function, summary function, and growth curve function.

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It is free and the fact that you can share the childcare record with married couples is a great way to let fathers and fathers who have difficulty participating in childcare know about their children's condition. I appreciate that I can record only by tapping with my hand, and that I can use it in between childcare. It's also revolutionary that you can input only your voice when you can't speak.

Excellence Award

hugsafety Smart Temperature Sensor Service(hugmo inc.)

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This service streamlines daily temperature check operations with a non-contact thermometer that can be held over the body for 3 seconds and a cloud service that records the results of temperature checks. Temperature can also be taken by the device alone.

Pokemon Smile(Pokemon Co., Ltd.)

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An application that aims to make tooth brushing a fun habit. It also aims to help parents who have a hard time getting their children to brush their teeth every day. Children can brush their teeth while looking at their own mouth on the screen. The app also includes features for children to enjoy, such as the ability to change their own on-screen appearance.

Childcare ICT Division

Aimed at childcare facilities that take care of a large number of children.

Grand Prize

Sick child care support system "Azukaruko-chan"(CI Inc.)

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A service that connects sick child care facilities with users, allowing users to search for sick child care facilities nationwide, check availability, and make or cancel reservations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The service reduces the workload of sick child care center staff in answering phone calls and managing reservations during childcare, and contributes to the creation of an environment in which they can concentrate on childcare.

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We are attempting to solve social issues by looking at them from the front. By bringing the latent need for childcare for sick children to the forefront through a highly convenient system, the company is attempting to make a difference in the lives of families involved in childrearing.
I like the mission to broaden the field of business. I appreciate the challenge to venture into areas that are considered niche.

Excellence Award

hugnote(hugmo inc.)

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Integrated management on a single platform, including "Simultaneous contact and contact book functions" for communication between daycare facilities and families, "Preschool operations" such as "arrival/departure ticking" and "bus location information," as well as functions for selling daycare supplies and photos. The company's "Noon Sleep Monitoring" and "Smart Temperature Monitor" are also deployed on the same platform.

Lookmee Shift Management(Unifa Corporation)

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The service allows anyone to easily create a shift schedule at the touch of a button while taking into account a variety of complicated work conditions, such as the national standards for the placement of childcare workers specific to childcare facilities and the reclassification of shifts into early and late shifts.

special award

Intellectual Education Robot Award

mTiny Programming Kit(Makeblock Japan K.K.)

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No smartphone or PC required, just a robot toy and teaching materials. Programming instructions with a stylus and a map panel for hands-on learning are provided. Includes everything from simple games to advanced storybooks, allowing children to develop a sense of programming while playing.

Noon Sleep Monitoring Device Award

cocolin(Kimuratan Co., Ltd.)

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A service to watch over preschool children using wearable IoT technology. Using three tools (smart wear, multi-function transmitter, and a dedicated app), the service monitors and automatically records the safety of preschool children throughout the day. The system monitors body temperature, sleeping on their stomachs, and body movements, and alerts the childcare staff in the event of an abnormality.

Childcare Life Support Award

Papa Power Test(Mama's Sachi LLC)

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Child-rearing knowledge quiz-type contents that can be easily tackled on line. The questions include reliable content supervised by experts from original questionnaires and literature, moms' true opinions, the reality of child-rearing, how to take care of children, and knowledge to protect them from accidents and illnesses. The purpose of the quiz is to help fathers become aware of and confident in their parenting skills and to create opportunities for communication with mothers by simply answering one or two questions each day and reading the explanations, thereby strengthening family ties with fathers playing a key role.

About BabyTech Award Japan 2020 Event

BTAJ2020 will hold the following events and display the award-winning products at the "Daycare Expo 2020" to be held at Shinjuku NS Building on November 26 and 27, 2020 (Tue) and (Fri).

November 26th (Thursday)
12:00- BIRTHCARE EXPO 2020 Organizers' Seminar (at 30th Floor Sky Hall)
BabyTech Award Japan 2020 Award Ceremony
Presentation Pitch for TUAT Award-winning products

November 27th (Friday)
12:00- BIRTHCARE EXPO 2020 Organizers' Seminar (at 30th Floor Sky Hall)
Talk session with BTAJ2020 guest judge Ms. Misako Solda
BabyTech: "BabyTech that realizes what you wish you had in childcare and childcare."

November 26 and 27, both days
Childcare Expo 2020 Shinjuku NS Building B1 Event Hall
Award-winning products will be exhibited at the "BabyTech® Award Japan 2020 powered by DNP Dai Nippon Printing booth".

Childcare Expo 2020 Website
http://www.hoikuhaku.com/