Meeting Point Barcelona 2012

Last Thursday we had the chance to introduce  SAYME  at the Meeting Point Barcelona Forum focused on smartCities, organized by ONO and Pyme Crunch.

A whole morning full of good experiences and talented people who took place at the Silken Diagonal Hotel, in Barcelona.

The day started with a talk on "Analytics at smartCities" by Alfredo Romeo (@aromeo) -Intelify-. A very interesting thinking around taking Information Management Systems to the next level by enabling knowledge creation, where the information and bussiness processes merge to facilitate decision making inside the smartCity. Meanwhile, Toni Mascaró conducted th workshop around "Smart Destinations: Turism at smartCities".

After that, a roundtable took place, with Javier Martin (@loogic) as presenter. Various topics around future cities and business models were discussed. Different experts participated around this table: José Picó (@picoj) -D3 Arquitectura y Redex-, Jordi Echevarría -Everis- y Alvaro Nicolás -Anteverti-. Interesting ideas and concepts arised. As a result, the discussion exceeded the available time.

Finally, the time for company presentations arrived. With SAYME, other projects were presented: TicTow and the awarded MashMeTv. Both of them with remarkable presentations and internet application projects. The day ended with two internet portals dedicated to investing and venture capital: Foudum y TheCrowdAngel.

An excellent day. Thank you very much Carmen and Javier for the excellent organization and to everyone for a superb environment.

Comillas' Major Seminary Collapses

Last week we met with the sad news of the collapse in the major seminary at Comillas. A building of historical and cultural value and a symbol of Cantabria.

Under rehabilitation works for several years, we had the opportunity to work on a joint project in 2007, leaded by the  Grupo de Tecnología de la Edificación ,University of Cantabria, to monitor different structural points sensitive to the rehabilitation work.


In its initial phase, different structural monitoring solutions  coexisted  for a period of one month to study the feasibility of the project. Taking different variables such as windstrength and direction, temperature / humidity, inclinations in pillars or openings of cracks. Unfortunately the project did not proceed.


We take this opportunity to highlight the benefits of structural monitoring systems, especially in cases like this one.


With a much lower economic impact  than the budget of some works of this magnitude, there are monitoring solutions that reduce the risks associated with the works. Having the real-time/stored information to take preventive actions or to establish causality to certain accidents.


Seize the opportunity created by new technologies.


"What is not defined, cannot be measured. What is not measured cannot be improved.What is not improving, always breaks down."

Lord Kelvin