Footprints Strengthens its positioning as India’s Safest Preschool with AI-powered CCTV, Redefining Safety Standards and the Future of Early Learning
New Delhi : Footprints Childcare, one of India’s largest and fastest-growing preschool and daycare brands, has announced its transformation into the country’s first preschool and daycare with AI-powered CCTV safety infrastructure — setting a new benchmark in early childhood education and reaffirming its decade-long promise to India’s working parents.
Founded by IIT-IIM alumni, Footprints has always placed safety and transparency at the centre of everything it does. From introducing live CCTV access for parents at a time when accountability in early childhood was virtually absent to adopting and implementing the globally recognised HighScope-based curriculum across every centre, the brand has consistently asked one question: what does it take to give a parent complete peace of mind?
AI is the most powerful answer yet.
Where traditional CCTV systems provide live surveillance, Footprints’ AI-powered infrastructure thinks. The system doesn’t wait for something to go wrong — it actively works to ensure it never does. Running in real-time across every centre, it continuously monitors whether children have adequate adult supervision at all times. The moment it detects the absence of adult supervision at any given point of time — however brief, however unintentional — it immediately triggers an alert to centre management, enabling instant corrective action. It is not reactive. It is preventive. And in a childcare setting, that difference is everything.
This is not AI as a talking point. This is AI as a guardian.
The technology sits alongside Footprints’ existing multi-layered safety framework: secure OTP-validated and biometric entry protocols, structured safety audits and rigorously trained staff operating under standardised processes across every centre nationwide. Together, they form the most comprehensive child safety infrastructure in India’s preschool and daycare sector — one where human care and intelligent technology work in lockstep, each making the other stronger.
For India’s working parents — parents, especially mothers who have always had to choose between their careers and their peace of mind — Footprints’ AI-powered safety ecosystem means that choice no longer has to be made. Their child is seen, supervised and protected. Not just by the people in the room, but by a system that never blinks.
Footprints currently operates 220+ centres across 30 cities, serving 60,000+ parents, with 12,000+ children currently enrolled. The company recorded ₹58 crore in revenue last fiscal and has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate technology infrastructure and national expansion.
“Child safety is non-negotiable. At Footprints, AI is not a feature — it is the next layer of security and trust we bring to parents, elevating their confidence in our promise of complete transparency. By embedding AI-led monitoring into our already structured safety protocols across all our centres, we are setting a new gold standard of accountability in early childhood education,” said Raj Singhal, Founder and CEO, Footprints Preschool and Daycare.
