With kids today having easy access to phones, ipads and laptops, it becomes necessary for parents to know about their child’s virtual world. We previously reviewed eKavach, the parental control app which helps monitor your child’s internet activity.
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Recently launched eKavach Pro is an  upgraded version which is smarter and better!  eKavach PRO is a bigger update on it’s predecessor, simplifying your digital parenting experience and ensuring better safety for your child each time they log on to the internet!
What’s new with the eKavach Pro?
1. Heartbeat  with Geo Locator: The new device heartbeat feature tracks the child device reach and a loss of device heartbeat will be available with Geo location and any alarming coordinates can help parents to take action in time. This new feature helps parents to keep an eye on the physical location of their children and reassures them that their children are safe and protected.
2. Offline Alerts: Parents can now get SMS alerts when no internet connection is available and these notifications are segregated into categories like ‘urgent’, ‘alert’ and ‘information’. These notifications will be sent to the parent via Push Notifications also. Parents now have the ability to select the type of notifications they want to receive.
3. Family Time: Parents now have the ability to define family times such as meals, during which, all access to internet and applications will be blocked. This will enable parents to better manage the child’s time and ensuring that he/she spends enough time away from digital devices and gets adequate rest and families can enjoy some wholesome family time such as a family meal. All apps and internet access on the device seize to function after sleep time and until wake up time. This is one of my favourite features.
4. More Control Over Applications :With the PRO Version of the app, parents also have more information about the applications their kids are downloading and using. With the new intuitive user interface, parents can be guided directly to the app store to find out more info about the app, based on which parents can choose to permit access to an app for a specified time period or block an app completely.
5. View Dashboard Stats of your child’s online activities :Enable positive parenting by analyzing the types of sites your child visits / tries to visit, type of apps he/she downloads etc. Take a step towards digital parenting by viewing these trends from your child’s activity dashboard and make more informed decisions about your child.
6. Remotely Manage activities: Be a smart digital parent on the move – access the app from anywhere and anytime. Be it from office or on the move, there is no need to be physically around the child anymore for digital protection
7. Categorization:Â The new Internet web category settings have now been simplified to 30 main categories, specifically defined keeping parental control in mind. The app engine also defines category permission automatically based on age of the child, which can further be customized by the parent, if required. Additionally, when a certain category is blocked, the parent can choose to receive/ not receive notification if the child attempts to violate the setting. The site filtering offers a one-click URL white list process to enhance user experience enabling parents to directly see the blocked websites the child has tried to access. If the parent finds that one or more of these sites should be permitted, the same can be added to the child specific white list directly.
8. Emergency Child Notification to Parents :The new features have options that facilitate communication between children and parents. Using the Child App, children can easily reach out to their parents in case of an emergency situation and can send an urgent SOS notification by the simple click of a button. Parents will receive this notification (a predefined message) with the geo coordinates of the child.
9. Communication with Parents :Â Child application also allows kids to send regular messages to parents to keep in touch with them any time of the day
Download for Parents: eKavachParents
Download for Child: eKavachChild
Janani S Koushik
