Co-venture · IoT, firmware and AI

Wanees

Wanees is a talking companion for the whole family. It plays first and talks when it matters, follows a learning plan for each member of the family, and keeps the family in control from its own portal. We built all of it: the device software, the voice AI, the family portal and the IoT platform behind them.

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Inside Wanees

From a clean slate to a talking friend

Scroll to take Wanees apart: the device, its parts, and every layer of technology we built on it.

  1. A friend that fits in the palm of your handA round touch screen, a speaker and microphones in a small case. Wanees talks, listens and reacts.
  2. Opened upGlass, screen, board, microphones and speaker, battery and case. Out of the box, the chip is a clean slate.
  3. Every layer, built by usOur operating system, the apps and games, the AI layer and the voice, the privacy guard, and our own servers and family portal.
  4. One stack, many productsThe same technology runs other connected devices: control, monitoring, predictive maintenance and digital twins.
The film

From the chip to the cloud.

The device, our own operating system, voice-to-voice AI, the privacy guard, the family portal and the Sandruci IoT Engine behind it, in three minutes.

Why it exists

A companion the family can trust

There are many AI products for the home, but few give the family real insight or control. Like a TV left on, an open AI can drift anywhere. Wanees works the other way round: it guides, it teaches, and the family sees and shapes what happens.

The problem
  • Many AI devices and apps for the home are general chatbots with a friendly face.
  • Like a TV left on, an open AI drifts from one thing to the next.
  • The family cannot see what was asked, played or learned.
  • Names and personal details often end up with outside AI services.
What changes for people
  • Wanees asks the questions, following a learning plan for each profile.
  • The family talks back and forth in real time, with replies in about a second.
  • Games, photos, stories and magic stickers, on a device made for the family, not a phone or a tablet.
  • Time, AI credits and rules are set from the family portal, where you also read the stories the family shaped.
The business case
  • A brand of its own for the GCC, co-founded with a partner in AI robotics and education.
  • Our own AI stack on models we host: no closed-source AI, with cost and safety in our hands.
  • Several profiles per device, so one Wanees serves the whole family.
  • Updates over the air keep adding games, apps and learning after purchase.
Innovation

AI that does more than talk

A rainbow with an elephant and a giraffe, made in Magic Sticker

Magic Sticker: pictures from a few words

The child says what they imagine, "a rainbow with lots of animals", and Wanees builds the picture on its screen from a box of stickers, choosing, sizing, turning and placing each one. Then the child moves them with a finger, paints on top and saves the picture.

The Magic menu: Learn, Story, Guess it, Show me, Chat and AI Paint

An AI that finds its way around

Wanees knows its whole system. Ask it to open the calendar or set an alarm and it does. Better still, it follows the conversation: when the moment calls for a story, a lesson or a guessing game, it opens that mode itself and moves between them as the talk goes on.

The family portal

Calm control, clear progress

Everything the family needs, on a phone, tablet or computer, in English or Spanish, light or dark.

Home: who is playing, talk time against the daily limit, play time with no AI, and quick controls.
Home: who is playing, talk time against the daily limit, play time with no AI, and quick controls.
Learning: a 12-month plan for each profile, for example three topics a month.
Learning: a 12-month plan for each profile, for example three topics a month.
Wellbeing: weekly signs, as calm notes with what you can do.
Wellbeing: weekly signs, as calm notes with what you can do.

Up to 8 profiles per device

Each profile is an animal nickname, never a real name, with its own progress, games and memory.

A learning plan for every profile

Swap, hide or add topics; see levels from Introduced to Learned, and download a month report.

Activity, day by day

Questions asked, games and scores, drawings, and time by activity over 7 or 30 days.

Stories they shaped

Choose-your-path stories, with the choices each profile made, to read or delete.

Rules you set

Time limits, quiet hours, blocked topics and up to 10 words of your own, with a kind fixed answer.

Find my Wanees

The device rings "Here I am!", even if it was offline when you asked.

The device

Hardware and firmware we built

Out of the box the chip is a clean slate, with only the very basics. We built every layer on it: the operating system, the apps, the AI layer and the AI stack on servers we built ourselves. Inside: a round touch screen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, two microphones for the wake word, a speaker, a motion sensor, a battery, a power button and 16 MB of flash.

Talking, with a big red Stop band anyone can tap at any time.
Talking, with a big red Stop band anyone can tap at any time.
Magic talk: chat, learn, story, guess it and show me.
Magic talk: chat, learn, story, guess it and show me.
Device settings: how talking starts, volume, voice commands and system updates.
Device settings: how talking starts, volume, voice commands and system updates.

Our own firmware

Our own firmware, in C++, built on an open-source voice core and extended with our operating system, games, apps and safety.

Dozens of offline games

Arcade, creative, animals and learning games, some played by tilting the device with its gyroscope, plus spaced repetition, a pet and a family leaderboard.

A small operating system

Clock, calendar, alarms, timer, gallery, wallpaper, screensaver and quiet mode, all by voice too: "set an alarm", "turn up the volume", "make it brighter".

20 emotions on the face

An animated face that reacts to the talk, and to being shaken, flipped or lifted.

Updates over the air

Staged roll-outs to picked devices or a share of them, with a minimum battery level.

Flash from the browser

Invited testers install firmware over USB straight from the portal, with checksums and a log.

Voice AI and safety

It plays first, and talks when it matters

Speech becomes text, a language model answers and a voice speaks back, streaming from the first words, on efficient models we host and control. No closed-source AI, and every input is checked before it goes anywhere.

Text only, never audio

Every input passes a privacy guard first: names, passwords, addresses and phone numbers are hidden before anything is saved or reaches a model, and each profile is a pet name.

An extra safety check

Every answer is checked against the family's rules; blocked words get a fixed, kind reply at no cost.

Facts that change are looked up

News, weather and scores come from family-safe sources with the source named.

Interrupt any time

Anyone can talk over Wanees or say stop, and it stops at once.

Wellbeing signs

Gentle weekly notes in the family portal when someone seems lonely or leans on the device.

Data kept apart

Each family sees only its own data, and chat history deletes itself after 30, 90 or 365 days.

IoT engine

The Sandruci IoT Engine, behind every device

Our multi-tenant console runs the devices, brands and AI for every product built on it.

Devices and approvals

Approve or block devices, auto-approve with a grace window, and see each one's state and version.

Brands as settings, not code

Each brand has its own name, colours, logo, sign-in page and address.

Our own models, per agent

Pick the model for each agent from our own hosted stack, test before switching, set a daily AI budget and watch voice latency.

Plans and metering

Usage plans with rolling quotas, top-up requests and cost per profile.

Together

What each partner brings

Wanees is a co-founded brand: our partner in the UAE sells AI robotics and education across the GCC and sources products from around the world; together we built a brand of their own. Our business model: Sandruci provides the software under licence, and our AI robotics partner operates the system.

Brand and market

Our partner leads the brand, marketing, sales, distribution and packaging across the GCC.

Learning content

Together with our partner we select and develop the non-AI learning material and games.

The operating system

We built the operating system on the chip from scratch: memory, screen, sound, Wi-Fi and controls, like a small Android of our own.

AI, portal and platform

Our own AI stack, the voice pipeline, the safety layers, the family portal and the IoT platform with updates over the air.

Beyond Wanees

One technology, many connected products

Wanees is one product, in one industry: education. The same stack, from the operating system and apps to the AI layer and our own servers, runs on other chips, in other spaces and for other industries, for monitoring and control.

Any connected device

Our operating system runs on other chips and boards, each one sending its data back to our platform.

Control and monitoring

Every device seen live, controlled remotely and updated over the air.

Predictive maintenance

Readings from every device turned into early warnings, before something fails.

Digital twins

The devices in a building or a venue, mirrored live in a digital twin.

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A short demo on your use case, and a plan to get you live.

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