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Protect your child's eye health and encourage healthy mobile device use with planoApp - every parent’s digital companion.

About planoApp

Plano is designed to reduce the risk factors associated with myopia (short-sightedness) and manage your child’s device use, all within 1 simple-to-use app. Plano's features help parents to limit screen time for kids, manage and block apps, track what apps your kids are using and monitor their time spent on smartphones and tablets. Plano has cross-device functionality so you just need one parent account to add as many children account as required.

Plano a screen time parental control app was incubated with support from the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and Singapore National Eye Center (SNEC) and is in partnership with a global leader in eye care, Santen.

Plano’s mission is to empower people to achieve their best vision and eye health through education and science-driven technological solutions. Save Sight, Empower Lives!

PLANO Parental Control Features:

Device control & safety (Parental Control)
• Device Schedule: Set times when your child cannot use their device.
• Remote Locking: Remotely lock your child’s device from your phone.
• Track Device Use: Keep track of the time your child spends on their device and their frequently used apps.
• Parental app blocker: Keep your child safe from harmful internet content by blocking apps and online browsing.

Science-based alerts
• Eye-to-Screen Detection: Ensures your child has a healthy distance between screen and eyes.
• Eye Break Prompts: Encourages and rewards your kids to manage their screen time
• Posture Monitoring: Calibrates and ensures your child’s posture to encourage healthy smart device use.
• Low Light Detection: Detects when your kids are using their device in bad lighting.
• Blue Light Filter: Helps your kids to sleep better at night by activating the blue light filter.

A fun and rewarding way to develop safe habits
• Points-based reward system for kids to encourage positive reinforcement
• Encourage your child to take charge of their eye habits & screen time while having fun!
• Plano rewards are linked to actions of responsible device use and good eye habits.

Real rewards for positive behavior
• Unlock exclusive discounts on a variety of fun activities for both children and the whole family
• Plano Shop activities are curated in themes for family fun away from the screen
• Themes include Outdoor Adventures, Fun Activities, Sports & Games, and learn new skills under Enrichment & Education.

Digital wellness and regular eye checkups
• Eye Check Booking: Ensure your child gets the right service and comprehensive eye check ups through the Plano Eye check.
• Detailed Progress Reports: View individualized reports on your child’s mobile device use & screen time
• Eye Health Records: Keep track of your child’s eye test results.

Download app

Plano is FREE to download for parental control android and iphone apps to use it. The eye health features and a collection of the safety functions will always be FREE to use. New users will also get a 30-day trial for the premium features. You can try out the child protection features such as the remote child lock and scheduling no-device time.

Choose from the different plans we offer below:
(a) Health - Free
(b) Health Plus - SGD2.98/month
(c) Health Max - SGD29.98/year

     Interview with Professor Linmi Tao

    Chinese have a saying-高瞻遠矚,which means people should see higher and see farer. The research Professor Tao has been doing is a great example of it.
    Today, it is our pleasure to have the interview with Professor Linmi Tao (陶霖密) from Beijing about the research to improve the mental health and home care for elderly. As we know, China owns more than one billion population; therefore, before the interview, I assumed that most of care for people in need is done by actual the care givers. Professor Tao pointed out that due to the one-child policy, the structure of population is twisted. That is, the population ages very quickly- way to quickly that they should rely on the technology to fill the gap. With the advanced technology, they can connect the elderly with the service of medical care at lower cost.
    During the interview, we got to know that Professor Tao has been actively interacted with Europe. He shared with us that he has an European project with plenty of Europeans, some are from Finland, he emphasized. Moreover, he also mentioned that Oulu University here even offers him a job as a professor. When I googled about Professor Tao, who is the expert of biology, biophysics, computer theories and engineering ,I later found more information about more communication he has had with Europe- in the end of 2000, he participated a project with the E.U, known as “Augmented Reality for Remotely Operated Vehicle for underwater survey and inspection”; in 2001, he was hired as an assistant professor in Verona University of Italy. Through his profession, he really opens the whole world to himself and hence spreads the meaning of the technology to the people- that is, to make life easier.
    Nevertheless, some people stick to the way they are used to live. It may be difficult to persuade them to change. For example, the research for mental health also can be applied to help the elderly in China. With some sensors in kitchens, we can clearly see when they cook or heat water, so that easily track if the elderly function well in their daily lives. Some argue that the technology for home care would violate their privacy. How to keep a balance between the technology and privacy is the universal issue that we all should be aware of.
    Promisingly, he is positive about the research he has been working on. With the cooperation with some big companies, such as IBM,INTEL,SIEMENS, he knows well how to connect himself with all the resources he needs. The capital, human resources and great ideas are the “ingredients.” Now all he needs is more time to wait for the fruits of the research. We are looking forward to it.

Ps. The audio file about our interview is the link as below:
http://helgekeitel.posterous.com/professor-linmi-tao-bejing-university