Smart Padel Automation has established a (non-exclusive) partnership with Playtomic to deliver a package of services that could render pádel clubs all but automatic and relieve them of the need for staff.
Established in January and headquartered in Madrid, Smart Padel derives its tech from a ten-year-old Galician company called Conexiona specialized in domotics – the automation of dwellings through computer networking of appliances, shutters, doors, lights and so forth. “Seeing the growth in sports facilities,” CEO Jose Enrique Conde tells SGI Europe, Smart Padel has “decided to focus its technology on racquet sports centers.”
To this end, it sought a partnership with a company, Playtomic, that is already automating part of the pádel and tennis (and even football) market: court (pitch) reservations. Playtomic’s app provides a reservation history and match statistics and a network of fellow members to schedule matches or take courses with.
Smart Padel has been expanding its reach by “domoticizing” clubs on the Playtomic network – some 50 of them so far, with requests from another 200, in Spain and abroad. Smart Padel maintains a separate app to drive the domotics devices it installs at the clubs, enabling club managers to control the whole system from a smartphone. The system can include lights, cameras, motion sensors, court gates, building doors, shutters, turnstiles, connected TV, QR codes for members, and so forth. The interface is customizable and adaptable to various subsystems, and Smart Padel provides tech support.
Despite the name, Smart Padel will not limit its business to the sport of pádel, as Conde confirms that the tech is also applicable to other kinds of clubs.
Conde, incidentally, is also CEO of a small chain of pádel clubs called Padelprix.
There exists another company called Smart Padel in Brazil, but its business is in smart courts rather than smart clubs (domotics).
