This alliance aims to give a definitive boost to an aeronautical technology with numerous applications and use cases across various industries and sectors. This "indoor GPS" can be used to locate and monitor emergency personnel in critical situations, such as burning buildings or underground facilities. It can also precisely guide visually impaired individuals within buildings. In the industrial sector, it enables the location and monitoring of any asset, regardless of the environment, enhancing digitalization, automation, and process optimization.
María Ángeles Martín Prats, president and co-founder of Skylife, views this alliance positively, describing it as “a powerful and established industrial partner with the same values, a large international sales network, and a solid track record that will contribute knowledge and experience to help us work together to save lives and revolutionize industry with the most disruptive technology.” Furthermore, the Seville-based leader and technologist is proud to state that “the synergies with ITURRI are enormous, and this partnership will allow us to industrialize high technology right here in Seville.”
For his part, Juan Iturri, president of the Seville-based multinational specializing in security, affirms that this partnership “reinforces ITURRI’s commitment to cutting-edge technology, always striving to achieve maximum safety for people with the ultimate goal of saving lives.” “We are confident that along this path we are embarking on together, Skylife and ITURRI will achieve something great, a true revolution whose scope we can barely begin to imagine.”
Location and Monitoring of Personnel in Fires and Emergencies: The safety of people is one of the main objectives that both ITURRI and Skylife aim to achieve with this alliance. In this regard, one of the most interesting use cases for Sileme is that, thanks to its ability to locate indoors, even without prior installation, penetrating walls and metallic environments, it can locate and monitor emergency personnel or firefighters entering burning or collapsed buildings, or even underground environments. This represents a major technological advancement, never before explored, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the safety of people and saving lives in hostile environments. Thanks to Skylife's technological advancements and innovative developments, and Iturri's experience in the security sector, this possibility is now a reality.
Guiding blind people at the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville
Another application of Sileme technology, with a significant positive impact on society, is the positioning and guidance of people within buildings. It achieves sufficient precision to serve as a guidance system for people with visual impairments or low vision, enabling them to be completely independent when visiting large buildings equipped with the solution. An example of this is the Sileme installation at the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville. This system is invisible to the end user, allowing anyone, by installing the Sileme SIG smartphone app, to navigate with centimeter-level accuracy through the building's various corridors, areas, and consultation rooms. This solution was implemented through a collaboration between Skylife and ONCE (the Spanish National Organization of the Blind), along with the unwavering and committed support of the hospital itself, led by the management and the Internal Medicine department, under the leadership and coordination of Dr. Luis Castilla. Indoor guidance is a solution applicable to all types of buildings and facilities, including complex environments such as tunnels (subways, stations, etc.) or even modes of transport like trains or ships.
Countless applications in logistics, mining and Industry 4.0
Beyond its primary goal of saving lives and improving people's lives, Sileme, as an indoor location and monitoring technology, opens up a multitude of use cases within sectors such as logistics, mining, and Industry 4.0. In these areas, the solution developed and industrialized by the Skylife-ITURRI partnership allows for the location and monitoring of any asset or person in an indoor or industrial environment, with a wide range of possibilities for tracking, big data, artificial intelligence, resource and operational optimization, downtime savings, and much more.
