Pupils tap their bands in and out every school day using contactless technology. This sends real-time data to the Moki app. Results can be viewed on-screen or printed out into user-friendly reports for schools and teachers.

The Moki Band is a comfortable, durable, water-resistant accelerometer. There is no display, so students cannot see their individual data and no personally identifiable information needs to be captured. Instead, the idea is for schools, parents and children to use Moki to encourage group exercises and class challenges, and to stimulate active learning.

Up until now, the challenge for schools has been how to capture movement data accurately. Commercial activity trackers are prohibitively expensive to buy in bulk and don’t have the connectivity to allow teachers to access group data. Moki is the first solution specifically designed to be used by teachers. From the contactless technology and batteries, to the app design and pricing, it is effective and accessible for schools large and small.

In the UK Government's 2019 physical activity guidelines for children it states:

'Children and young people should engage in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) for an average of at least 60 minutes per day across the week. This can include all forms of activity such as physical education, active travel, after-school activities, play and sports.'

“We are the first activity tracker that can easily measure MVPA across a whole classroom of children,” says Dylan Thompson, Professor of Physiology and one of Moki’s founders. “The data we have already gathered provides a fascinating insight into regional, age and gender trends. The potential for how that data is used in the future is almost limitless - and that is really exciting for us.”

To date, Moki has tracked over 180 million steps in schools all across the UK. With more schools signing up all the time, that number is increasing exponentially. In February 2020, the company launched the ‘Moki Grade’ - a simple rating system that can be used by schools to show the activity levels of their pupils.

James Huggins, co-founder of Moki, says: “Schools already understand the importance of an active curriculum and are under increasing pressure to deliver. The problem is, up until now, they have had no means to accurately measure and evidence the impact of their efforts. Moki was created to solve that problem, but we are only scratching the surface at the moment. There are more than 20,000 primary schools in the UK alone. Our ambition is to start a ‘Moki Movement’ that will generate the data to empower not only kids and schools but also policy makers and even governments.”

Feedback from participating schools all over the country has been overwhelmingly positive:

“Moki really is powerful and can have a huge impact on how schools identify children that need engaging and inspiring to be active.” – Ian Holmes, Thorner Primary School, Leeds

“Moki is an excellent, sustainable use of sports premium. It ticks a lot of the Ofsted indicators and is great for tracking and measuring levels of physical activity across the school." - Stacey Cannon, Selby Abbey Primary School, Selby

For further information about Moki or to arrange a free demo, contact:

James Huggins

james@moki.technology

https://moki.technology