dassie is the smartwatch platform where the school sets the rules: calm classrooms, a live map of your grounds, instant SOS and broadcasts, all with privacy parents can trust.A friendly smartwatch for your child and an app for you: a family map, SOS that reaches you straight away, voice notes and tuckshop limits. It works hand-in-hand with your child’s school.
A friendly watch that every learner can wear.A friendly watch for your child. An app for you.
Lesson time: voice notes, collectables and payments switch off. SOS and GPS stay on.In class the watch follows the school’s rules, so it helps and doesn’t distract.
One press on the grounds, and your team sees it instantly.One press of SOS alerts you straight away.
Acknowledge, respond, resolve. Every step is logged.Tap “I’m on it” and their watch shows help is coming.
The watch shows a QR code, the cashier scans it, and the parents’ spending rules are checked automatically.At the tuckshop the cashier scans a QR code on the watch. Your limits and blocked items are checked automatically.
Watch rulesLive school mapSOS, always onBroadcasts to watches & parentsScan-to-pay tuckshopParent spending limitseSIM built inWi-Fi at school & homeVoice notes for familyBump to be friendsChores & calendarData stays in South AfricaGrade R–7Smartwatches at school. Parents love them. Teachers? Not so much. So we built dassie the other way round: the school sets the rules, and the watch helps instead of distracting.
Why “dassie”? The rock hyrax lives in close family colonies and always keeps a lookout. Every dassie is watched over. That’s the idea.Four things your staff will use every day, all from the dassie School Portal.
Decide when and where voice notes, collectables and payments switch off, by time window and by zone. SOS and GPS always stay on.
The live map shows each learner inside your school boundary, with a status ring you can read in a second.
If a learner presses SOS on the grounds during school hours, it lands in the School Portal straight away. Acknowledge, respond and resolve, with every step recorded.
Send broadcasts straight to watches, and to parents in the dassie parent app: reminders, events, or a big “well done!” after sports day.
The school only sees learners on the grounds, during school hours. No tracking outside school, no health data, no voice notes. Those belong to the family.
Every bit of data stays in the country, stored securely.
Nothing passes through the watch supplier’s servers.
Watch suppliers have no remote access to devices or data.
The privacy boundary is built into the platform itself, so it can’t be switched off.
Live map, watch rules, SOS, broadcasts, provisioning and your team, all in the browser.
Hi Thandi!SOS, GPS, messages, chores and a scan-to-pay QR code, all following the school’s rules.
FamilyThe cashier scans a QR code on the watch. Parents set limits and block items, and the till checks automatically.
Two watches bump, both parents approve, and they can chat.
Every watch comes with an eSIM, already loaded. Parents choose an automatic monthly top-up and can top up any time. Data is reserved for GPS so location never drops, and the watch saves data on school and home Wi-Fi. One saved card pays for data and the tuckshop.
Two short films: one for school leaders, one for parents. Jump straight to any chapter.
A family map with battery and signal, SOS that reaches you first, voice notes, chores and reminders, and tuckshop limits you control. dassie is rolled out through schools, so if you’d love it for your child, tell your school.
ThandiAdd the watch to your school’s fleet in the School Portal.
Pair the watch with a learner and their grade.
Parents get an invite and set up their family app.
