Maria Pardo and Andres Artigas with Integra Tecnologia

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Welcome to the industrial talk podcast with Scott. MacKenzie. Scott is a passionate industry professional dedicated to transferring cutting edge industry focused innovations and trends while highlighting the men and women who keep the world moving. So put on your hard hat, grab your work boots, and let's go all right once again. Thank you very much for joining industrial talk, and thank you for your continued support of a platform that is dedicated to you industrial professionals all around the world. You are bold, brave, you dare greatly, you innovate, you collaborate, you solve problems, and therefore you are making the world a better place. We thank you very much from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you for what you do. We are broadcasting on site IoT solutions, World Congress here in Barcelona, Spain, and it is a wonderful event, and it has incredible professionals who are all focused on solving problems and really just collaborating and innovating. And then you need to be here. It's just one of those events that you need to put on your calendar for next year. If you're not here, you need to be here now. This is where all the cool kids hang out. We are here in Barcelona. All right, in the hot seat. Speaking of great professionals, we have Andreas and Maria. Maria interact. Is that the company

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say that

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again? Okay, good. And we're gonna be talking, okay, this is gonna blow your mind. Gonna be talking about smart ski resorts. Yes, that's what I did say. All right, let's get cracking.

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You guys having a

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good conference. Good conference. Very good man. I like that. Amazing. Yeah,

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you guys have, I met them, I think, last year, and you had a smart vehicle last year. Yeah, you have a and their booth has a smart gondola, which, I have no idea what that look but there's a gondola in their booth, which is pretty dark, and it does capture the eyes.

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Do you have that gondola just sort of hanging around your office? Well, it was, it was freaky.

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Just like, wow, jeez, got a gondola. All right. Before we get into the conversation, we're going to start with you, Maria. Give us a little background on who you are. Okay, I was for four years, like a project manager in IoT department in terra now I'm Data Service Specialist, and I make projects with AI, different systems with IoT and connected products. I'm industrial design engineer, and this is my background, and you can tell that she's cool because she has those glasses on. The same with Andreas, you have cool glasses on. They're from the future. All right, give us a little background Andreas. Well, I'm Andres malara. I'm from Integra, and, yeah, I'm the technical lead project manager right now in in the IoT area within Integra. Well, also I telecommunications in New York. Very good man. All right, the elephant in the room is, what is a smart it is going to you Andres. What is a smart ski resort? Well,

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yeah, in the well, in a huge aspect is to connect every part of the ski resort is not just to ski in the Valley. It's also restaurants, hotels. Is a resort itself. So you have the industrial part a ski resort is like an industry without ceiling, okay? Because it's on a coastal environment also, but also you have all the part of people counting smart facilities. It's the whole stance you have. You can see here each solution of it can fit on steel resource because there are so many verticals just in one place.

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Maria does this

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smart technology help enhance the experience for the the skier, the user experience, yes, because if you know how many people is in the gondola, for example, you can change the speed of the gondola, or you can now get efficiency. Or if you know the number of people you can get a

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good experience for the ski users. Does this smart solution sort of stretch into outside of the user, but the food, the lodging, all of the stuff and just make it more efficient address. Yeah, yeah, that's the point here. So what you what you want to do here is to have insights, not data. You need insight for that. You need to submitter to monitor each variable. It's a magnitude of the ski resort. And for example.

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As Maria said, if I know how much people is waiting for,

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and

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I see that they go is x speed, but no people is waiting. How? Why? Why? I'm moving that. I couldn't stop it and wait for the next five people. In that way, you can be much efficient also, if you monitor the heating well, you are in a freeze space, people must be comfortable, but if the in the room, there is no people via heating up that room. So that's that kind of decisions. If you don't have all digital eyes, and you don't have an integral platform in order to see all the KPIs and all the stuff is impossible to be efficient. So yeah, I was just gonna say so it stretches way beyond just the user experience. Yeah. It is the the organization, the company, making them more efficient, being able to sort of deploy the resources that are necessary at the right time, yeah, so to optimize that, optimize it right? And it's sustainability, because if you

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get the, for example, the energy, you are more efficiency is really important, because the ski resort is in a natural environment, and if you do reduce the energy or different parameters, you make more sustainable, and

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you reduce the impact to the environmental and is important in this world. No, those are really interesting points.

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I find that

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I would imagine this is a great opportunity for your organization, because I'm sure, as sure as I'm bald, that this has not sort of been thought about from a ski resort. It's very seasonal, right? Yeah, so you

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make doing this and having these conversations with the owners of the ski ski resorts, I would imagine it's an interesting conversation. Yeah, of course. Because obviously you need to work in summer, not in winter, because this the high demands there. And also the point here is that a wide old sensors is a kind of impossible kilometers and kilometers of wild valleys, you need some kind of a

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wireless technology. In this case, we deploy Laurel networks in the whole valley. So just with a few gateways, we can cover all the ski resorts. And in that way, people can place the organization, okay, they can measure some kind of variables of the engines, temperatures, performance of the systems. But also imagine, for example, SOS buttons. Okay, I don't have cellular covers when I'm in a ski but on a ski field, but if I have a SOS button with the whole infrastructure that is already deployed for the organization. Users can be safe.

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I can press a button if I have a problem, and all the infrastructure is already the point,

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because they work in the summer and and you know, winter time is a busy time. You're not going to get their attention in the winter time rightly so they're doing what they need to do. Maria, how, how quickly can we deploy

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sort of a smart solution in the summertime? Help sort of take us through that and saying, Okay, we're going to be able to deploy

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a certain percentage so that next, you know, season, it'll start to how do we, how that, how and in how many months? Or what do you Yeah, in three of three or four months, it's it's okay, because we in first time, we take the gateway and deploy the network, and later we measure them, the high, the same signal. This is the cover, the coverage, and make like a head map of the coverage in the ski resort. I think is one, the first moment, more or less, and later we select with the with the ski resort direction, then the sensors, if they prefer, for make the energy or water or number of people, we select the sensor and we install in different points of the I think in three or four months, it's okay

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one One ski resort. You have it in one ski resort, or this is a new No no, the first name we had the project in formula in the first ski resort. So the POC was not just a ski station, but the idea is to calibrate to the whole ski station of the organization.

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So just once they have validated technology and they have safe, I guess it was 30% of energy, that's what I was going to get to sort of what, what's, what's sort of the real, you know, real numbers of being able to save and make more efficient, or whatever, whatever the key performance indicators. So here, the organization told us yesterday that, well, the for the project was already installed and working full working on December, okay, because we do some kind of final tunings and so on. But from December to March, April, that was the ski

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season. They saved just with the fusions or they have now. They saved 30%

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from the in comparison with the last year energy. Because for those kind of papers that I told you late before, so they know how much people were waiting in the gondola. If there is no people, they can slow it down. If it is slowing down, it consumes less energy. So that kind of decisions are the ones that count on the final KPIs, Maria, and this is the final question. Let me ask you this in the gondola Q use case,

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if you install the right devices, I would imagine before devices, it's manual. It's like, I'm down at the bottom, there's a big queue. Can you speed it up? You know, they're on the radio. Speed up the thing and slow it down. There's not my slow it down. That type of thing. Very manual type of communication. These devices would automatically begin to say, Okay, there's a we there's a I sense a cue. Let's speed it up. Let's just, let's just sort of make it seamless in that sense that the user doesn't even notice. It's just like, I'm back on there. I'm not doing it. That's great. The I think the user love technology, because now the user I young people and say, okay, here is a camera. It's because, for example, the same sort for counting people is a camera with in artificial intelligence is camera. And I say the user experience is cool, because you say, okay, intelligent, smart ski resort,

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and what the question were played this is just about the regulation. So people who manage the ski the ski gondolas are known as a driver, because it's a transport so it has a driver, like a bus, and that's the point that technology could not be ultimate. So you cannot slow down automatically based on people, because if there is by regulation, there is a people who needs to be there, moving, stopping and controlling the gondola. This is just about Revelation, not about technology, that sometimes one step the other and that thing, well, I guess that is going to to well, to get more and more continuity, but that's the point. I'll be the first. I'm all into something smart, and I'm a guy that is me who typically is impatient. I like it. I'm all in I like what you guys are doing. So with that said, how do people get a hold of you? Andrea, how do people get a hold of you? If they want to know more about your smart solution help. They can reach us on the anterior web page, anterior interior innovation.com they can reach us by LinkedIn or whatever. We feel free to reach us, and we will let you know. Same thing for me and go to IoT technology, I think is the best one. We're

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going to have all the contact information for these two incredible professionals you need to this is, I love the smart world that we're living in, and it's going to get better and better and more efficient, and people that are impatient like me,

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you will like it. You will like it most definitely. All right, we're broadcasting from IoT solutions, World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, is the location you need to put this on your calendar for next year. I keep saying that you need to you will not be disappointed. You get to meet great people like Andreas and Maurice Maria.

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It just will so anyway, we're going to wrap it up on the other side. Stay tuned. We will be right back. You're listening to the industrial talk Podcast Network.

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Well, that was a smart conversation, Smart City, smart ski resort, smart people advocating for those smart solutions being applied.

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Like I said, cities

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and a ski resort making the experience

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better. That's what I like, yeah. And for a guy that's impatient, as I alluded to it in the conversation, I like the smart stuff you should like the smart stuff you should reach out to Andres and Maria Integra is the company I N T, E, G, R, A, and all the contact information will be out on industrial talk. It's all there reach out. Industrial talk is here for you. It is a platform that celebrates industry professionals. You need to amplify your you need to succeed and amplify your voice. That's what we're here for. Be bold, be brave, dear, greatly. Thank you for your continued support. Hang out with these two incredible professionals change the world. We're gonna have another great conversation shortly. So stay tuned. You.