The mayor inaugurates the first smart pool in the Canary Islands
The pool at the Pancracio Socas García Sports Complex in Puerto de Santiago will be the first facility in the Canary Islands to form part of the Spanish Network of Connected Smart Pools (EPIC)
Mayor Emilio Navarro inaugurated this morning, Monday 10 March, the first smart pool in the Canary Islands that will become part of the Spanish Network of Connected Smart Pools (EPIC). This is the pool at the Pancracio Socas García Sports Complex in Puerto de Santiago.
Emilio Navarro pointed out at the presentation that “we are positioned as a first-class pool, at the forefront of the safest and most efficient pools, by offering users the possibility of monitoring their training sessions while competing against each other, which also seeks to avoid accidents.”
EPIC is a new programme promoted by the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN) and the company Nagy by Zonyx through a call for grants from the Higher Council of Sports (CSD) through European Next Generation funds for projects that promote sustainable and inclusive improvements to sports facilities and spaces. For this smart pool with a total budget of €72,000, the city council contributed more than €32,500 while the amount of the subsidy awarded exceeded €39,500.
Monitoring and big data will allow the monitoring and recording of all swimmers' activity, through a high-tech programme that will facilitate the improvement of swimming teaching, the planning of sessions and even the early detection of sports talents from the parameters obtained in digitalised pools.
This innovative technology also improves safety, as it connects users with lifeguards and immediately alerts them of possible dangerous situations, allowing them to act in advance and thus prevent possible drownings. To carry out this monitoring, swimmers wear a small device in their goggles and, through a connection and a network of connected antennas, they provide all the information they generate so that it can then be processed by the Nagi software, offering swimmers the possibility of improving their performance or setting goals with which to evolve their aquatic experience.
The presentation of this smart pool was also attended by the mayor, as well as the Deputy Minister of Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Luis Sabroso, the Councillor for Sports of the Cabildo, Yolanda Moliné, the president of the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation, Fernando Carpena, and the director of institutional relations of the company Zonyx, José Miguel López.
