Every child deserves
to see home.
Shivnex, by Skandev Solutions, gives boarding students supervised video calls to their parents — from a locked-down hostel tablet, with a teacher present for every call. Safe, school-only, in five languages.
Teacher present School-only No spam, no strangers
Boarding school shouldn’t mean a child loses touch with home.
Phones aren’t allowed in the hostel — for good reasons. But the cost is real: homesick children, anxious parents, and wardens fielding calls they can’t verify.
Consumer video apps aren’t the answer either. They open the door to strangers, spam and screens with no supervision — exactly what a residential school must keep out.
Shivnex is the in-between that didn’t exist: a warm, supervised line home that the school fully controls.
Three simple surfaces, one safe line home.
The hostel kiosk
A wall-mounted tablet in the warden’s view. A student taps their photo or types their Student ID, enters a PIN — or just shows a QR badge — and chooses who to call.
The parent’s phone
Mum or dad get the free Shivnex app and sign in once with a one-time code. When their child calls, the phone rings like any video call. They answer and see their kid.
The school dashboard
Admins import the roster, approve guardians, set calling hours and limits, print QR badges and pair tablets — and see every call. All in one console.
Everything a residential school needs — and nothing it doesn’t.
Supervised by design
A teacher is present for every call. Calling is one-way — a child reaches an approved guardian, never the reverse.
Locked-down kiosk
The hostel tablet only ever runs Shivnex. Hardened kiosk mode, screen-capture blocked, settings behind a staff code.
Five Indian languages
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada — the child and the parent each pick their own, in one tap.
PIN or QR-badge login
Every student gets a private 4-digit PIN and a QR badge. No phones, no passwords, no accounts to manage.
Hours & limits
Set calling windows and weekly minute caps per student. Calls open and close exactly when the school decides.
Rings like a real call
Parents just install the free app and sign in with a one-time WhatsApp code. Their phone rings when their child calls.
Clear on any network
Adaptive video that holds up on weak rural data — and falls back to crisp audio automatically when it must.
Built for chains
Multi-tenant from day one. Run one hostel or a network of hundreds — each school’s data fully isolated.
A safety model a parent can trust — and a school can prove.
Shivnex is built so the only people a child can ever reach are the guardians their school has approved — and every minute is accountable.
Talk to us about safetyOne-way calling
Parents can’t dial in or reach a child directly. Only the student starts a call, only to an approved guardian.
Whitelisted guardians
Every guardian is added and consented by the school. No open directory, no strangers.
Teacher present
Calls happen on a supervised tablet in staff view — never a private device.
Full audit trail
Who called whom, when and for how long — logged and tamper-evident for accountability.
DPDP-ready
Data minimised, tenant-isolated per school, with a built-in right-to-erasure flow.
Not recorded by default
Calls are for connection, not surveillance — recording is off unless a school explicitly needs it.
Hardware included. One simple plan, priced per student.
Shivnex is Hardware-as-a-Service — the tablets, the software and the support, in one predictable per-student subscription. We’ll tailor a quote to your hostels and roster.
Answers for wardens, parents and management.
No. Calling is one-way by design — only the student can start a call, and only to guardians the school has approved. Parents cannot dial the kiosk or reach a child directly. Every call happens on a supervised tablet with a teacher present.
Each student gets a private 4-digit PIN (or a QR badge they simply show to the tablet camera). They tap their photo or type their Student ID, enter the PIN, and pick who to call. No phones, no accounts to manage.
Just the free Shivnex app on any Android phone. They sign in once with a one-time code over WhatsApp — no passwords. When their child calls, the phone rings like a normal call.
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada across both the kiosk and the parent app — a child or parent picks their language in one tap.
Yes. The hostel tablet runs in a hardened kiosk mode — it only ever shows Shivnex, the screen is protected from capture, and staff unlock settings with a private code. It cannot be used for anything else.
Built for India’s DPDP rules from the ground up: data is tenant-isolated per school, calls are minimised and not recorded by default, guardians are consent-based, and there is a full audit trail with a right-to-erasure flow.
Import your roster from a spreadsheet and PINs, QR badges and guardian links are generated in one step. Pair a tablet by scanning a code. A hostel can be calling home the same day.
To shape a future where technology works seamlessly for people — enabling progress, strengthening relationships, and improving everyday life at scale.
Shivnex is the first product of Skandev Solutions LLP — more, for everyday life at scale, to come.
Bring a safe line home to your hostel.
Tell us a little about your school and we’ll set up a live demo — kiosk, parent app and dashboard — and a quote that fits your roster. A hostel can be calling home the same day.