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Parents of autistic kids face multiple challenges, conversing with them and assessing their growth being the toughest. In the absence of enough resources, it’s always a trial-end-err method for most parents, leaving them frustrated at times and worrying about their future.
Help is at hand. Big Data, which is transforming the way companies process voluminous data, is going to work in the back-end, while the kids play games. Developed by a US-based start-up set up by an NRI techie, the NoDi-branded games would intelligently gather data while a kid pushes this or that icon as they play games.
“Using Big Data and Complex algorithms, the solution will figure out progress of the kids. We can tell about the attention span and if the kid could turn a bully. This analysis would be very hand in treating them,” Dinakara Nagalla, Founder and Chairman of EmpowerMX and NoDi, told BusinessLine .
Dinakara takes the help of Maureen Dunne, a Rhodes scholar and an expert in child development, in developing the solutions to benefit the children with special needs.
The IIT (Mumbai) grad floated two more forms CaprusIT and Zyksa, with the four firms employing about 1,000 people. While EmpowerMX delivers technological solutions for aviation MROs (maintenance, repair and overhaul), Caprus IT develops the solutions and products for the three firms set up by Dinakara.
“Making sense of the data, Big Data solutions help visualise what the kid is good at. Some games involve more than one player, improving the social behaviour of the kids,” he said.
The firm roped in Hyderabad and Austin (Texas, the US) firms to develop the games. “We will later build our own resources to develop such games at Caprus IT,” he said.
Launch next yearThe firm is planning to launch NoDi games in the second quarter next year. “Some of them are ready. We will sell it online on annual subscription model. We are planning to make it available at $100 a year on Amazon,” he said.
Dinakara said the games would also be useful for normal kids as well.
Dinakara was here in connection with inauguration of Caprus IT’s new facility in the Hi-Tec City. The 13,000 sq ft facility develops solutions in aviation, healthcare, e-commerce, mobile commerce and enterprise mobility.
The facility, which employs 250 staff, will grow to 750 in the next 12-18 months. “We are looking at a couple of acquisitions,” he said.
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