~To a childcare site where children, staff, and parents can feel at ease
- The following is content from the press release -
(Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; Keiichi Mori, President & CEO; hereinafter "Focus Systems") announces that it has concluded an agreement with the City of Yokohama and will participate in a demonstration experiment of an "ICT-based Child Watching Service.
This demonstration experiment is an effort to develop a service to prevent accidents such as children being left unattended during out-of-school activities at daycare centers, and will be conducted through "YOKOHAMA Hack!
Related release: https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/city-info/koho-kocho/press/digital/2023/0205hack.html
In the demonstration experiment, the children will be transported on foot (or in a cart) from the school to the park, and the wearability and usability of the equipment will be verified during the children's activities, which will be utilized for product development and improvement. The test is expected to take about 1.5 to 2 hours, including travel time.
Four companies, including our company, will participate in this demonstration experiment, and each company will conduct a demonstration experiment of four products, each with a daycare center.
Details of the Demonstration Experiment to be conducted by the Company
| Product name | Cotchi |
| Experimental Details | Using BLE tags attached with a hat or a clip-type nameplate badge, the usability of the device and its ability to watch over people are verified. |
| Parks with out-of-school activities | Taio No.2 Park, Taio South Park |
| Parks where demonstration experiments are conducted | Yokohama Municipal Taio Nursery School (4-24-7 Okurayama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City) |
| Covered Classes | 2- and 4-year-old classes |
| Number of subjects | Max. 27 persons |
| Available days for coverage(For the press) | Thursday, February 15, 9:00 a.m. |
The demonstration experiment to be conducted by our company will use "Cotchi," an application for watching over children to prevent them from being left behind, which utilizes our IoT product, the BLE beacon "FCS1301.
Outline of "Cotchi
By simply attaching the FCS1301 to a child during a walk or other out-of-school activity at the daycare center and starting the application from a smartphone, the name of the separated child will be alerted when the child is over a certain distance from the caregiver, thereby preventing the child from being left behind.
Three key points of "Cotchi."
Image of "Cotchi" usage
Coverage of the Demonstration Experiment
The demonstration experiment will be open to the press. Please confirm the application procedure below and send your application to the contact information below.
How to apply Please include the following information: your name, company name, e-mail address, telephone number, and the date of the interview (February 15),
Please indicate the number of participants and send to the e-mail address below.
The day before the experiment, we will inform you of the meeting place and time.
product@focus-s.com (To the Cotchi product representative)
*Only members of the press are eligible for this event.
application deadline Tuesday, February 13, 2024, noon
*Other notes
The event may be cancelled or postponed due to inclement weather or other reasons.
In the event of a postponement, we will notify the contact person you have applied for by the day of the event.
Parking is not available, so please use nearby parking lots or public transportation.
Please do not park on the street, as it is an inconvenience to nearby residents.
About Focus Systems
Focus Systems Inc. was established in 1977, and is not only involved in system development and operation in the public, telecommunications, and other highly social fields, but also actively promotes business development in anticipation of the trends of the times, such as IoT, cloud computing, and AI. Our corporate slogan is "Technology with Heart. The slogan expresses the passion and sincerity with which each and every one of us at Focus Systems approach our work, which connects people with people through technology.
Product Web site:
https://www.focus-s.com/focus-s/products/iot/solution/cotchi/index.html
Company Web site:
https://www.focus-s.com/
Related Information
As part of its DX promotion efforts, the City of Yokohama is implementing "YOKOHAMA Hack!", an open platform for emergence and co-creation that matches business and service issues (needs) with the digital technologies (seeds) of private companies to solve problems, as well as supporting demonstration experiments to help solve social issues and create new business models using technologies such as IoT and AI. YOKOHAMA Hack!" is an open platform for emergence and co-creation that aims to solve problems by matching digital technologies (seeds) owned by the private sector with digital technologies (needs) owned by the private sector.
YOKOHAMA Hack! Web site: https://hack.city.yokohama.lg.jp/
YOXO Web site: https://socialport-y.city.yokohama.lg.jp/yoxo-box/
