BabyTech®️ Awards 2023 Grand Prize, Excellence Award and Special Award winning products in each category

Breastfeeding and Eating Section

Grand Prize

baby's fun!(sketchbook, Inc.)

For childcare facilities DX support service for school lunches, covering everything from menu planning to meal kit delivery and nutrition education content.

Excellence Award

Kidslation(Patchwork Quilt Co.)

Frozen infant food subscription EC with a focus on food quality, taste, and nutrition

Children's Learning and Play Division

Grand Prize

Toy sub!(Trana Corporation)

Toy subscription that recommends and rents toys tailored to each child based on 1 million user reviews

Excellence Award

TODO English（Enuma Japan LLC)

An English learning app with an overwhelming amount of English input and an intuitive curriculum that allows you to continue learning while having fun.

Crete class(AMAZING EDTECH PTE. LTD)

Math learning application starting at age 3, fostering the acquisition of number images, logic and thinking skills.

Safety Measures and Monitoring Division (3 Excellence Awards were selected due to the large number of entries)

Grand Prize

Body Movement Sensor for Infants Baby Alarm E-202 (Sea Star, Inc.)

Body movement sensor for infants that can be worn in diapers. Scheduled to go on sale on January 1, 2024.

Excellence Award

CuboAi Sleep Safety Bundle(Un-nun Technology Co., Ltd.)

A set of baby sleep-watching camera and sensor pad with more than 20 diverse functions. It detects and notifies when the baby's face is covered or when the baby is unable to turn over. This year, more than five new functions have been added, including a coughing detection function and enhanced detection accuracy.

Siesta BeBe Series" body motion sensor for sleep and infants(Global Electronics Corporation)

A mat-type body motion monitoring system (by breathing) that has been installed in many medical institutions and daycare facilities. Equipped with a noise cancellation function that reduces false alarms and lost alarms with high accuracy even in places where a lot of vibration noise is generated, such as daycare facilities.

Hello! Family. HaloCoco/HaloPochi/HaloMoni(Kokuyo Corporation)

A terminal to monitor the location of family members (Harokoko) A tag to watch for forgotten belongings such as calligraphy tools (Harotagu), a button to press when an errand is completed and record it in an app (Haropochi), and a smart monitor that allows parents and children to exchange messages (Haromoni)

Safety devices to assist in preventing pick-up buses from being left behind

Grand Prize

B-004 Safety device for "Sustainamotion" watch-over system (SM-AS)
(Samurai Sword Co., Ltd.)

Automatic detection type safety device conforming to MLIT guidelines. Installation cable is also included in one package, enabling installation in 2 hours per unit.

Excellence Award

Anti-left behind in car device SOS-0006(TCI Corporation)

Conforms to MLIT guidelines. Visually checkable. Simple operation with only one button. Constructed with highly reliable parts that only a manufacturer of safety equipment for special vehicles can provide. Can be installed in as little as one hour.

MAMORU(H.K.S. Co., Ltd.)

Conforms to MLIT guidelines. Automatic detection. While other companies require the driver to press the confirmation button at the end of the bus every time the engine is stopped, this product has a unique specification that requires the confirmation button only when the key is removed. This product reduces the number of times the confirmation button needs to be pressed in many daily tasks such as car washing, refueling, and parking lot transfers.

Fertility and Pregnancy Department

Grand Prize

Postpartum care application mamaniere(POLA Inc.)

Analyzes the mental and physical condition of mothers using our unique facial analysis technology. We propose care and information recommended for postpartum mothers in their current situation. Supporting the unstable period of physical and mental health by collaborating with multiple postpartum care services.

Health and daily care Department

Grand Prize

Dental Light - a new way to visualize dental plaque and promote plaque removal.(Dentoppi Co., Ltd.)

A device including a filter that can reproduce plaque visibility by the QLF method in a compact and inexpensive manner. Visualization allows efficient removal of plaque and prevents the harmful effects of "overbrushing".

Excellence Award

Cranial orthopedic helmet Qurum + fitting support app metto ( metto for doctor )(Japan Medical Company, Inc.)

Development of cranial deformity correction helmets, which until now have only been available in Europe and the U.S., for comfortable use in hot and humid Japan and other Asian countries (Qurum). An application that allows doctors and patients' families to manage treatment progress and support wearing the helmet (metto).

Smart Bath Mat(ISSIN Corporation)

Automatically record your weight just by getting on the scale every day. Free yourself from the stress of getting on the scale. Allows you to unconsciously measure your weight, an important indicator of your health. Suitable for pregnant women, babies, and infants.

Electric Nasal Aspirator SHUPOT(Pigeon Corporation)

Twice the suction flow compared to existing products. Nasal drain catcher to reduce the cleaning area. Electric nasal aspirator with various innovations such as sound-absorbing materials for quiet operation.

Commemorations, Records, and Memories

Grand Prize

Plump hand memory(CreativePocket Corporation)

Unlike handprints and footprints stamped with ink, this kit uses resin that feels almost like human skin, allowing you to leave a three-dimensional handprint and footprint as a record of your baby or child's growth.

Excellence Award

Echo Photo Poster" made from echo photos(Idea Puzzle Design Office)

EC, a semi-custom echo photo poster production service that can be completed on a smartphone using echo photos given at ultrasound examinations during pregnancy checkups.

Parent Support Services

Grand Prize

Pair Chill, a talk app that connects single parents in similar situations and allows them to consult with each other(General Incorporated Association Pair Chill)

A talk app where single parents from all over Japan can casually chat and discuss parenting, work, finances, housework, etc. with other single parents in diverse circumstances.

Excellence Award

CHARICO(JR East Urban Development Co.)

Subscription-type service that combines a fixed-rate rental service for electric bicycles for children, a necessity for the child-rearing generation, with a dedicated bicycle parking lot near a station.

Parenting application "cope"(Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.)

A parenting app that supports childcare by working with families for 1000 days from pregnancy to childcare.

Male Maternity Leave Support

Excellence Award

OYA.NOTE, a maternity preparation management service for couples working together(Hahakala Corporation)

A service that allows couples to share and manage birth preparations even before the birth of their child. (Name changed from Wedoo when Qualified was awarded)

Career Support

Grand Prize

Career support services for working mothers centered on MAMABOLAN
(mog Inc.)

An online service that expands the possibilities for working mothers to think about their own careers, centered on "MAMABORUN," in which working mothers on childcare leave intern at other companies.

Excellence Award

MOMIT - a learning lab for mothers(Stance Dot LLC)

Online IT learning school for moms. One-on-one lessons and tailor-made curriculum support a variety of learning styles to fit each mom's needs.

Childcare ICT Division

Grand Prize

Childcare Bank! Palette(Nextbeat Inc.)

Staff management tool specialized for childcare facilities. Engagement survey (visualization of empathy, relationship, and trust toward the facility and corporation) to prevent personnel outflow, retain childcare staff, and solve management issues.

Excellence Award

Childcare Bank! Connect(Nextbeat Inc.)

Management system specializing in shift attendance and staff management functions for the childcare industry. The system reflects the opinions of more than 20,000 childcare facilities throughout Japan that have transactions with the company's recruitment support service for childcare facilities, "Childcare Worker Bank! a recruitment support service for childcare facilities.

Brain- beacon Childcare Tracker(MJ Corporation)

Real-time detection of preschoolers' whereabouts using beacons. Detection of approaching dangerous areas and escaping from the preschool. Data such as the behavior of each child at a specific time and contact information with friends can also be used for verification purposes.

Reliefnap Beacon Watch(YEC Solutions, Inc.)

Beacon-based monitoring service. Bus mode to monitor the number of people getting on and off the school bus to prevent forgetting to pick up or drop off children. The "Watch over the children" mode allows you to easily check the number of children at the time of departure from the school or the park for out-of-school activities. The app notifies you if a child leaves the caregiver after getting off the bus to prevent lost and found children.

Home Appliances for Child Care and Household Use

Grand Prize

Healsio Hot Cook(Sharp Corporation)

This automatic cooking pot responds to the need for easy preparation of delicious homemade food at home while saving on household chores. It automatically controls "stirring" and "heat control," which until now could only be done by standing over the pot. It also has a recipe download function and a recommendation function.

Excellence Award

Lodina" (with Life Assist 2), a new house-building concept(LIXIL Housing Research Institute, Aiful Home Company / LIXIL Corporation)

This smart home comes standard with LIXIL's IoT Home Link "Life Assist 2". It also allows basic operation of lighting fixtures, air conditioners, and home appliances, as well as surveillance cameras, front door unlocking and locking, and opening and closing of shutters and curtains via smartphones and smart speakers. Childcare Life Assist, a childcare IoT package designed to watch over children and prevent crime, is also offered.

Munchkin Electric Baby Swing(DADWAY, Inc.)

This electric baby swing is simple to operate and swings comfortably from side to side. It is lightweight, easy to transport, and can be stored in a crevice when not in use.

special award

Akachan Honpo Prize

Digital photo album "Omoidebako"(Buffalo, Inc.)

Digital photo album that stores photos and videos taken with a digital camera or smartphone and allows anyone to easily review them on a TV

Mom & Dad Community Award

CuboAi Sleep Safety Bundle(Un-nun Technology Co., Ltd.)

BabyTech®️ Awards 2022 Grand Prize, Excellence Award and Special Award winning products in each category

Breastfeeding and Eating Section

Grand Prize

Gokan-Gosai(FUNFAM Corporation)

A membership-based home delivery box for baby and toddler food with access to a dedicated recipe website and participation in online baby food classes. After applying from your smartphone or PC, you will receive at home on or around the 25th of each month foods suitable for your age and original recipes supervised by a baby food researcher, allowing you to prepare your own baby food with a simple step. Recipes are available on the purchasers-only website, where you can view more than 400 recipes as many as you like. In addition, if you have any food-related problems, please leave them to YASUYO, a baby food researcher who has supported 100,000 families in child-rearing over the past 10 years. We solve your problems by tying them to the growth of the five senses through our online baby food classes.

Children's Learning and Play Division (4 Excellence Awards were selected due to the large number of entries)

Grand Prize

COEMO(TOMY Co., Ltd.)

This is a toy that reads many stories to the child using a "koe" (synthetic voice) that sounds just like Mom and Dad. In response to the needs of parents who want to read stories to their children but find it difficult to do so every day, we have realized a "new storytelling experience" by reproducing the koe of a mother or father. By increasing the number of enjoyable hours spent interacting with the storyteller, we nurture a healthy and rich child-rearing environment for both parents and children.

Excellence Award

Tailbot Pro Set(Kumon Publishing Co., Ltd.)

This is a robot-type programming material that can be played and learned with fun from the age of 3. No computer or tablet required. Simply press the buttons on the robot itself for easy programming. There are only nine commands to move the robot: "move forward," "move backward," "turn right," "turn left," "record voice," "dance," "run," "reset," and "repeat," but the movement patterns are infinite. By operating the buttons while imagining the robot's movements in your mind, you will be able to "learn programming". Place the robot on the provided map and program its movements to reach its destination. The robot provides voice guidance in 8 languages, so you can familiarize yourself with foreign languages as well as programming.

DIGICORO(Digicolo, Inc.)

Seeing, hearing, and touching are all mixed together in this toy. Digicoro is rolled around on the iPad by the child holding it with his or her hands; it is important for the development of the child's brain to not only play with the iPad with just one finger, but also to hold and touch it with the child's hands. This toy is like a fusion of digital and analog. This is an educational toy that expands play and learning with the number of apps. A completely new way to play with the iPad that can be played with even without a WiFi connection by downloading the apps. No batteries or recharging is required. The apps range from 3 to 10 years old and include a variety of colors, sounds, images, rhythms, biological observations, and games. As children play, they learn and develop their imagination. The more apps there are, the more possibilities there are.

Pocket Encyclopedia(AHIRU Corporation)

It is an illustrated book to learn words not only by looking at them, but also by touching and listening to them. 
Animations and sounds play when touched, making learning fun for young children. 
Because it can learn from audio even if it cannot read, it can be started at age 0 and helps children learn words with accurate pronunciation. It is also intuitive and designed so that it does not require the hands of parents who are busy with household chores or work.

Dora Kids Online(Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions)

This is an online class that prepares students for elementary school and provides learning support from the comfort of your home. Even shy children can participate from the safety of their own home and gradually become familiar with the classes in which the teacher speaks to each student in the comfort of their own home. The classes, in which children interact with Doraemon, teachers, and local friends they would not normally meet, are a form of active learning that engages the child's brain, and through continuous practice, knowledge and experience will be acquired before they know it.

Safety measures and watchdog department

Grand Prize

CuboAi Sleep Safety Bundle(Yun Yun AI Baby Camera Co.,Ltd)

The set of two products is the "CuboAi Baby Nemen Mamoru Set".

CuboAi Smart Baby Monitor
Highly functional smart baby monitor packed with AI artificial function technology in a cute little bird-shaped body
The smartphone app notifies alerts when a sleeping baby's face is covered by a foreign object or turned over. Crying and coughing are also detected and notified. The system can record a clear image of a sleeping baby at night and performs sleep analysis. Cute sleeping figures and smiling faces can be automatically captured.

CuboAi Baby Sensor Pad
Optional product that detects continuous fine movements of the baby by simply placing it under the mattress and works in conjunction with the CuboAi Smart Baby Monitor to provide more advanced monitoring of the baby.

Excellence Award

KOKORUKU for lunch with childcare(KOKORUKU Co., Ltd.)

We have partnered with restaurants, esthetic salons, and classes that are difficult to visit with small children. We plan with the restaurants to offer all services with childcare, and post and sell the plans on the Kokoruku website. While mothers and fathers use the service, we dispatch our certified childcare staff to private rooms in the restaurant or vacant rooms in the neighborhood to provide childcare space and take care of children. This service reduces the burden of childcare by encouraging mothers and fathers to secure "time for themselves," and supports childcare with a relaxed mindset.

Heat Watch Canary(Biodata Bank Corporation)

The device detects a rise in deep body temperature, which is the starting point for the onset of heat stroke, and notifies the wearer two steps before the onset of heat stroke with an alarm and LEDs. This wearable device, which can be used for one season at a time, encourages the wearer to replenish salt and water and take a rest in a cool place.

Fertility and Pregnancy Department

Grand Prize

Pregnancy and Lactation! Asu-mama Course"(Advice course in the AI diet management app "Asuken")
(ASKEN Corporation)

A new advice course within the AI diet management app "Asuken" for pregnant and nursing mothers to support nutrition and weight management during pregnancy and lactation.
It allows you to manage your weight and nutrition during pregnancy and lactation in one place, and offers advice on how to balance your diet with nutrients that you should be especially aware of.
In addition to a "Nutrient Graph" displaying excess and deficiency of necessary nutrients, which can be easily checked daily, the system also provides a weekly weight guideline and "OK/NG Food List" for confirmation.

Excellence Award

Pregnancy experience system MommyTummy
(Kosaka Laboratory, Department of Information Media, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Tokai University)

This system allows you to simulate the pregnancy process from conception to the last month of pregnancy. Of course, men cannot become pregnant. Even if your partner says to you, "Think about how I feel as a pregnant woman!" but men cannot understand it. However, MommyTummy allows men to experience the physical burden of pregnancy and the joy of carrying a baby to term. Through this experience, we aim to create an environment where men can understand the feelings of pregnant women and treat them naturally.

Health and daily care Department

Grand Prize

Maternal and Child Mo Childcare DX Childhood Immunization Services(Maternal and Child Mo. Co., Ltd.)

This service supports online procedures for infant immunization for child-rearing households, local governments, and medical institutions.
Parents and guardians of child-rearing households living in areas where this service is available can complete and submit the preliminary checkup form online via the "Maternal and Child Health Handbook" application, reducing the time and effort required to fill out the form on paper.
Municipalities and medical institutions that introduce this service will be able to check and manage the preliminary checkup sheets and vaccination records recorded in "MCHMo" online, which will help prevent vaccination errors, eliminate the need to digitize paper, and obtain information in a timely manner, thereby improving the efficiency and sophistication of complicated administrative work. This will also eliminate the need to digitize paper and provide information in a timely manner.

Excellence Award

Pillow/bed to create a comfortable posture for pregnant women/late-term mothers(Ax Robotix, Inc.)

Pregnant women and postpartum mothers who are having trouble fitting into their pillows/beds due to changes in their body shape compared to normal can prevent their sleep quality from deteriorating by having the robotic pillow/bed transform into the shape they want for the day.

Mamaloo Multi Motion Baby Swing(Smart Trading Co., Ltd.)

The only* multi-motion baby swing that replicates the natural movements of a parent; 5 different motions allow the baby to play in place of mom or dad.
(*As of the release date, according to Smart Trading Co.)

Commemorations, Records, and Memories

Grand Prize

Memory of Pillars(mui Lab Inc.)

This product was created in the hope that the custom of inscribing children's height on pillars and walls, which is common around the world, will be digitized and become a medium that touches on past memories and reminiscences and strengthens family ties. 
Children's height, doodles, messages, etc. can be drawn by touching the pillar with the included digital stylus and recorded as digital data. Those information are stored in the cloud and can be retrieved at any time, helping family members communicate with each other. The system was also developed in the hope that by registering family "special days," past messages will suddenly come to life on those days, helping to strengthen family ties through experiences that immerse the user in memories that have faded into the distant past and provide unexpected insights.

Excellence Award

Sensei! Look!(Lucre Corporation)

This is a photo and video sharing service that connects childcare providers and parents based on the concept of "growth sharing.
With "Sensei-Mite! allows caregivers to take photos and videos and share them with parents in real time.
It is the only way to relieve the anxiety and worry of parents who work away from their children and wonder, "How is my child doing right now? This is the only way to resolve the concerns of parents who work away from their children.
In addition, the childcare provider's job is simply to take pictures. The time-consuming administrative tasks of organizing, uploading, and distributing photos are no longer necessary.
Simplifies photo-related tasks for caregivers while providing the "now" and "growth sharing" demanded by parents.
In a way that benefits both the childcare facility and the parents, it strengthens the relationship of trust between the two.

Parent Support Services

Grand Prize

Codomel" Connecting Mottainai to the Future(JP Holdings, Inc.)

It is a matching service for users to list and purchase reused products, mainly baby items, clothing, and other child-rearing related items, on the Web, and to provide products and services related to child-rearing that are in high demand among the child-rearing generation.
At "donation boxes" located at each of the childcare centers operated by our group as well as at various childcare-related facilities, we collect childcare-related supplies and clothing donated by parents and offer them for reuse.

Excellence Award

iiba, a platform specializing in "good places to raise children(iiba, Inc.)

This is a map application that allows users to earn points by recording their activities. By linking the point economy to child-rearing, we are adding realistic value to the previously invisible experience and know-how of child-rearing. In addition to recording users' movements and activities, users can earn points by sharing word-of-mouth from a child-rearing perspective on the map. The accumulation of data will result in a map optimized for users raising children, as well as contribute to behavioral design that encourages local consumption and economic development.

Famm School(Timers Inc.)

This is a one-month short-term intensive online school that allows students to attend with their children and learn skills in web design, graphic design, video creativity, and more. Babysitters are available free of charge for students, and the small class size of up to 8 students makes it easy to ask questions and receive feedback from the instructors. The school offers a variety of courses that lead to new ways of working, such as career advancement, smooth return to work, and work-at-home work, with the aim of creating a society in which women engaged in child-rearing do not have to give up their careers.
After graduation, we offer free support programs to help students start working from home, guidance to exclusive communities, and career counseling, and our graduates are expanding their activities in a variety of fields.

Childcare ICT Division

Grand Prize

Video media for gifted/developmental disability supporters: incluvox
(voice and peace, Inc.)

Video media for supporters of gifted and developmental disabilities. The target audience is "parents of children with characteristics such as gifted, developmental disabilities, and gray zone", "caregivers and educators at daycare centers, kindergartens, schools, and lessons", and "business people".
There are two main types of videos. One is "300 one-minute videos on support methods," which can be used like a dictionary, and the other is "10-minute videos on expertise and the latest information," which are distributed twice a week. All of the videos are subtitled and narrated, so they can be used as learning materials to enhance knowledge in a "short time, while listening, while watching" at anytime and anywhere in your spare time.

Excellence Award

Risk Assessment AI Evaluation System for Children in Need of Support(Kanamic Network Co., Ltd.)

Based on the "Common Risk Assessment Tool for Child Abuse by Child Guidance Centers and Municipalities" published by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the "Risk Level" and "Risk Factors" of high-risk families are visualized before a child in need of assistance or protection becomes severely abused. It is a risk assessment AI evaluation system that visualizes the "risk level" and "risk factors" of high-risk families based on the "Common Risk Assessment Tool for Child Abuse for Child Guidance Centers and Municipalities" published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and supports prompt response by local government childcare support departments and public health nurses, etc. It also reduces the workload of staff who are busy with their daily tasks and recommends cases requiring immediate action.

"HoiCa" childcare business support service(HappyLifeCreators, Inc.)

This service is designed to make teachers, children, and their parents happy by streamlining the cluttered office work and allowing them to spend more time with their children.
First of all, the simple operation screen is designed to be easy to use even for those who are not good at using PCs.
Efficient and simple management of children's arrival and departure from preschool using IC cards and tablet terminals to accurately record children's arrival and departure times.
Parental communication can be completed via LINE, and information can be distributed to parents via LINE, such as contact information, events, and disaster emergency notices.
Other features include attendance book management and data output to Excel, as well as parent contact information management.

Efficiency of household chores Department

Grand Prize

Our Family's Instruction Manual, a childcare and housework sharing support application(Pigeon Corporation)

This is a mobile application that supports "family becoming more of a team" by allowing couples to easily share their unique childcare and household chores even when they are busy taking care of their new baby and have little time to communicate with each other. This is a mobile app that helps "families become more of a team.
Different families have different ways of doing childcare and household chores, which can be created as "trisets" using videos and images, and shared with your partner. In addition, "help" can be sent using the registered trisets for childcare and household chores that family members would like to ask for, and the help list is also useful for task management.

special award

Akachan Honpo Prize

"Asuiku" temporary childcare search and reservation service available via smartphone & LINE(grow&partners, Inc.)

This service allows you to search for and reserve a temporary childcare facility 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from your smartphone or LINE when you need to leave your child with someone for a short period of time.
All parent and child information is entered from the smartphone, and advance payment is completed, making the tedious process of making temporary childcare reservations paperless and cashless. Once you have registered as a member, reservations can be completed in one minute at any daycare center. There are also plenty of photos and videos showing what the daycare center is like, so you can take your time choosing a temporary daycare after your child goes to bed.
We provided the receiving nursery schools with a management system specialized for temporary childcare. The system halved the number of complicated tasks such as accepting reservation calls and paper-based customer management, and improved the quality of childcare services by digitizing childcare records.

mamatas award

CuboAi Sleep Safety Bundle(Double award with the Grand Prize in the Safety Measures and Monitoring category)

Baby Tech Community Award

Memory of Pillars(Double award with the Grand Prize in the Commemorative, Record and Memory category)

BabyTech®️ Award Japan 2021 Grand Prize, Excellence Award and Special Award winning products in each category

Breastfeeding and Eating Section

Grand Prize

NAVITIME for BABY(Navitime Japan Co., Ltd.)

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A web application for childcare users of the navigation application NAVITIME. It offers optimal routes according to the means of transportation, such as "stroller," "baby carriage," and "walking together. For example, when "stroller" is selected, routes with fewer stairs and transfers are preferentially searched. Routes to nursing rooms and diaper changing stations can also be searched. The diaper-changing station information search function provides detailed reviews of even the women's restroom/multi-functional restroom when the location is a restroom, allowing users to find facilities that men can use, or for fathers and children to go out alone.

Excellence Award

"homeal" infant food delivery service for parents and children(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.

Learning and Playing (3 Excellence Awards due to the large number of entries)

Grand Prize

Non-Paper Theater(unouplus Inc.)

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A multi-device picture storytelling application that allows the reader to control the story from a smartphone and the listener to enjoy the story by looking at a tablet. The design takes advantage of the features of picture storytelling, which allow the listener to concentrate on the world of the work and the reader to direct the world of the work, and allows the user to participate in the story through touches on the screen, which is impossible with paper.

Excellence Award

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Model(Amazon Japan, LLC)

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Amazon's tablet device for children. Amazon Kids+, a subscription service for children included in the set, offers unlimited use of thousands of kids' content for one year. The content is carefully reviewed by dedicated staff for peace of mind. Parental controls prevent overuse.

International Exchange EN-TRY(Thinkalot Co., Ltd.)

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This is a service that allows children from Japanese kindergartens and nursery schools and children from overseas kindergartens to have an online international exchange. The service provides several sessions of work to get to know each other and communicate with each other in advance to deepen understanding before the online exchange takes place.

KIKASETE(AvirityInformation, Inc.)

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A picture book application that develops the ability to think and communicate. While reading a picture book, the on-screen characters interact with children in a fun way, posing contextual questions, knowledge questions, and speech questions that elicit children's thinking. It fosters reading comprehension, the ability to think, and the ability to communicate.

Safety measures and watchdog department

Grand Prize

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 childcare staff in the event of an abnormality. This year, the company made improvements to the smart underwear and the application.

Excellence Award

Cubo Ai Plus(Yun Yun Ai Baby Camera Co.,Ltd)

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Little bird-shaped smart baby monitor. It has a variety of functions, including alerts that notify the user of turning over, face-covering, and crying, automatic recording of the baby's condition, and a function that warns the user of approaching areas where the user does not want the child to enter after crawling.

MITETE.(MITETE Corporation)

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A web service that allows users to search and make reservations for daycare center tours and temporary childcare services with a single smartphone. Once registered, users can visit various daycare centers and use temporary childcare services without having to make direct inquiries. Facilities can streamline their reception and reservation management operations.

Fertility and Pregnancy Department

Grand Prize

Papa ninaru(Eversense Inc.)

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A free app exclusively for dads. Necessary information on pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare is delivered daily (from pregnancy to age 3; once a week for ages 3-4) to benefit pre-dads and fathers raising children and to help support moms. Moms' feelings and advice from senior dads are also delivered, so that they can know what they should do now and can feel at ease during their first pregnancy and childcare.

Excellence Award

Mainichi no Tamahiyo, a smartphone application that provides support for 1,000 days from pregnancy to the child-rearing period(Benesse Corporation)

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This is the official free application of the company's childcare brand "Tamahiyo. From pregnancy to 2 years of age, the app provides daily updates on baby's growth and expert advice along with the number of days of pregnancy and the number of days after birth. The app also features a community for mothers who share the same month of birth, a growth record, and a daddy mode.

Health Care Department

Grand Prize

KidsDoctor(Northstar Inc.)

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A smartphone application that provides "chat health consultation" with a nurse for sudden health concerns of children when hospitals are not open on weekdays and holidays, "online medical care" with an affiliated doctor via smartphone, and "house calls" with a doctor coming to your home. Children's health information is also provided within the application.

Excellence Award

ainenne(First Ascent Inc.)

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AINENNE was developed to alleviate the sleep-alerting problems of caregivers. With a light alarm that mimics sunlight and an AI-based recommended wake-up time display, AINENNE supports the formation of a baby's daily rhythm, making it easier to put the baby to sleep. It has many useful functions for waking and sleeping, such as AI analysis of crying sounds and white noise playback to drown out noise, and can also be linked to our childcare record application.

CCS SENSOR, heat generation prediction function(CHaiLD Corporation / global bridge HOLDINGS Corporation / Queue Corporation / Xenoma Corporation)

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Linked to the company's Child Care System (CCS), the system records the child's body orientation during nap time and warns against sleeping on one's stomach. The system automatically measures and records the skin temperature of the child's abdomen every minute, and notifies the childcare worker's terminal if there is a high possibility of a fever the following day due to unusual temperature fluctuations.

Commemorations and Records Department

Grand Prize

Personalized picture book "BÜKI"(STUDIO BUKI Corporation)

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A picture book in which the story and illustrations are created from the child's name, birthday, and other information. The customization range is wide, and the book can be personalized for each child by including the star in the night sky at the time of birth based on the child's date of birth, changing the characters that appear in the book, and so on. The service is a web-based service that produces and sells custom-made picture books that are personalized for each child.

Excellence Award

"CollageSquare": Easy Ohirune Art at Home(Japan Ohirune Art Association / TOMOWEL Promotion Co.)

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Ohirune Art is a popular content on social networking sites for "art photos made with babies, which are photographed by attaching backgrounds and accessories to babies. This service allows users to simply take pictures at home with a smartphone, without actually preparing various accessories and backgrounds for the photo shoot, and simply match them with a prepared set of Ohirune Art backgrounds.

baby pasha(CreativePocket Corporation)

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A baby camera mangajet that moves automatically and specializes in the movements of babies in the nursery and crawling stage. A dedicated smartphone application attached to the main unit recognizes the baby's face and runs by itself to keep capturing it in the camera. It can safely capture eye-level photos and crawling videos while maintaining a certain distance from the baby.

Childcare ICT Division

Grand Prize

The company's comprehensive SaaS-based childcare tech service initiatives, including "Hi, Cheese! and other SaaS-type comprehensive childcare tech service initiatives(Sen Co., Ltd.)

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The company's photo sales service for group childcare facilities, "Hai Cheese! a photo sales service for group childcare facilities, has been revamped as a comprehensive childcare tech service offering a wide range of childcare ICT services, including childcare business support, photo sales, video distribution, and album production systems.
The company will offer the industry's first (according to the company's own research) free plan in childcare business support tools, with an initial cost of 0 yen and a monthly usage fee of 0 yen.

Excellence Award

Kizuna Connect(Nextbeat Inc.)

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The company's "Childcare Worker Bank! a recruitment support service for childcare facilities provided by the company. The system is equipped with a wide range of functions, including child management, distribution of notices to parents, and calculation of childcare fees (issuing invoices and receipts).

ChiReaf Space(Nihon Unisys, Ltd.)

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A business support system designed to help reduce the workload of childcare workers and improve the quality of childcare. The system has functions such as attendance management, parental contact, instructional plan creation, developmental checks, and child medical records. The development check and child chart functions can be used as objective indicators by visualizing the recorded contents and comparing them with the developmental data of 40,000 people nationwide held by the service.

Research and Studies Division

Grand Prize

Research on the use of data from the "Sansan Kids System" to support children's growth and development(Goleta Networks Corporation / Clementia Corporation)

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This is a behavior analysis system that captures the actual conditions of daily movements and behavioral characteristics of children from infancy to school age. In addition to detailed minute-by-minute analysis of the daily movements and postural changes of individual children, the system also evaluates the current situation and analyzes issues such as the movements of individual children among all children at kindergartens and other daily sites. We are continuing our research to improve the quality of education by utilizing this system to provide support in childcare and school education settings where many children spend their time on a daily basis.

Excellence Award

AI child-rearing report system with child-rearing support robot(ChiCaRo Corporation)

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A developmental support system using the remote childcare support robot "ChiCaRo" for children 0-3 years old detects the developmental status of children and situations where there are developmental issues, and reports to parents and childcare providers. AI grasps the developmental status of children from the data, records developmental issues and growth scores for each child, and sends a report on necessary childcare support methods to parents and childcare professionals.

Research and Study on the Design of Cardboard Crib QUICK BASE BABY(ESPAC, Inc.)

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An environmentally friendly cardboard crib that is easy for anyone to assemble. It is designed for use at home as well as in times of disaster or when returning home. Research on usage, baby physique, general crib research, computerized strength testing, strength testing of prototypes, and other research to design a crib that is both small, easy to transport, easy to assemble, and strong enough for a baby to sleep safely.

special award

Akachan Honpo Prize

Picture book reading application "Miimi"(Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. / Otobank Co., Ltd.)

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This is a picture book reading application. In addition to enjoying audio of picture books read aloud by professional narrators, you can dub in some of the lines and create your own books, allowing children to actively enjoy the world of stories. The service offers a large number of commercially available picture books from famous publishers, with more than 80 books (as of August 2021), including famous works, picture books with English audio, and classic fairy tales, with more new books added every month.

Baby Tech Community Award

Obstetrics & Gynecology Online, Pediatrics Online(Kids Public Inc.)

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An online comprehensive maternal and child health support business that works together with local governments, offering online consultations with an emphasis on collaboration with local governments, as well as regular and live delivery of medical articles to residents. Online consultation allows consultation with active obstetricians, midwives, and pediatricians via video and text from a smartphone.

BabyTech Award Japan 2020 Grand Prize and Excellence Award winners 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BabyTech Award Japan 2019 Grand Prize and Excellence Award winners in each category

Breastfeeding and Eating Section

Items related to feeding and eating of children

Grand Prize

Breast Feeding Device Breast Milk Assist Electric ProPersonal/ProPersonal+/ Pigeon Switch
(Pigeon Corporation)

Excellence Award

Nursery Search App - Mamapapa Map(Codomoto Co., Ltd.)

FUNFAM(FUNFAM Corporation)

Play and Learning Department

Learning and play related to preschool children up to preschool age

Grand Prize

Social experience application "Gokko Land(Kids Star Inc.)

Excellence Award

Smile Zemi Preschool Course(Just System Co., Ltd.)

Hakushino Recipes(Hacksii Inc.)

Safety Measures Department

Those that protect children from incidents, accidents, injuries, etc. before they happen, and those that provide personnel and places to watch over them.

Grand Prize

hugsafety(hugmo inc.)

Excellence Award

Lookmee Nap Check(Unifa Corporation)

Poppins System(Poppins Co., Ltd.)

Pregnancy

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

IoT-type fetal monitor "delivery monitor iCTG" & perinatal telemedicine platform
Melody i." (Melody International, Inc.)

Excellence Award

Maternal and Child Health Handbook App(NPO Sunflower Association / NTT DoCoMo, Inc.)

Maternal and child health notebook application Boshimo(MTI Corporation)

Health Care Department

Child health care and records, related to pediatric health care

Grand Prize

Papatte Childcare @ Baby Notebook(Faith Store St. Co., Ltd.)

Excellence Award

Luxmy thermometer(Unifa Corporation)

Withings Body+ (SSB C&S Corporation)

Management Systems for Facilities

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

Grand Prize

Lookmee Photo(Unifa Corporation)

Excellence Award

Children's Facility Operations Support Service "CoDMONCodomon (Codomon Co., Ltd.)

CCS+Pro" and other x Childcare Robot "VEVO" x "VEVO's Sensors" x "RENRAKU Notebook" application initiatives(global bridge HOLDINGS Co.)