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What do footballers do during confinement? Well, apart from following the individualized training plans that their clubs have given them and -some- uploading videos to social networks playing with rolls of toilet paper, there are those who have also now found the time that they cannot normally dedicate to other performances. This is the case, for example, of Andrés Fernández (Murcia, 1986), Villarreal goalkeeper who, in addition to giving free rein these days to his passion for reading - "now I am finishing 'The best time is now', by Jack Kornfield , and I have also started a slightly different one, 'Letters from a Stoic', by Seneca ", he says-, you can also pay more attention to the performances of Biyectiva Technology, a company based in Murcia that is dedicated to R&D + i and artificial intelligence, and of which he is CEO, although he qualifies: "I am a CEO but I am really one of the founders and the CEOs are my partners, who are there 24 hours. I am giving support, so far especially at the level financial advice from me and my advisers, and on a day-to-day basis, in making certain important decisions. "

It is not the first experience of the goalkeeper in the world of entrepreneurship. During his time at Osasuna, he already invested in Tweet Binder , a company that has developed a hashtags analysis tool for Twitter and Instagram. At Biyectiva, which he founded together with a telecommunications engineer and an industrial engineer, they have, however, a broader horizon. In their portfolio they are defined as a company in which "we develop artificial intelligence and make innovative customized solutions". As, for example, what they call smart accounting, «a tool that allows you to recognize the invoices that come to you for accounting, recognizes them by means of an image or a photo. They can be several, it does not have to be a template or they are all the same », explains Andrés Fernández.

Or video 'matching', which is "a technology that recognizes television or any video on a screen" and that allows you to compare videos on the Internet in search of pirated content or that is leaked to the Internet, as well as to compare altered videos, eliminating the need to check content manually. “We are looking for people with whom we can partner to make it work, because it may be of interest to the world of marketing and advertising . We are looking for people who want to join this project. There is some interest from a company and to see if we can do it. We had a projection before this whole coronavirus crisis had passed and we were going to see how we are going from now on, ”says the Villarreal goalkeeper.

Videoparking

Other projects that stand out in its portfolio are a video parking system, which keeps a record of vehicle accesses with the help of the license plate identifier; another for signing by facial recognition; ConnecTVty , which complements television content by making it interactive and breaking the fourth wall, offering the possibility of communicating directly with viewers, giving them access to exclusive links; o Next Tour, an application that allows you to capture monuments to mark them as visited and access information about them. And other things that you can't talk much about. “We also have an interesting technology, which is a communication technology that did not exist, we have its intellectual property, but this is more private. It is a technology that is very good but you have to know where to take it, "says Andrés Fernández.

His interest in technology goes back a long way. «Since I was little I have always liked technology. You start with the game consoles, then you want to know how electronic devices work at home and when I got older I wanted to dedicate myself to computing . I have always liked the whole technological topic. I have done programming and then I started to make my own computer: you buy the parts, you change the memory card, the hard disk, you put more power on it ... », the goalkeeper, who parked last year, explained recently in an innovation talk his computer studies but to hope to retake them and "finish them when I can focus on it".

Who knows if Biyectiva can end up lending a hand to solve the problems that had been generating this season with the VAR. «I heard that they wanted to invest in artificial intelligence, I think that many VAR decisions can be automated . With innovation, investment and time, great improvements in efficiency and response time can be achieved, "says Andrés Fernández, who, while waiting for the championship to resume (if he does), follows his individualized work plan at his home in Castellón, where he shares confinement with his wife and dog. «We follow a specific plan that the technicians send us, which has working circuits of strength, legs ... everything. And then cardio exercise that you can alternate between bike and treadmill. They send homework for us every day. I spend about two and a half hours every day, because there is a warm-up, stretching and mobility first at the end. At the moment, we have no rest but better this way because at least I like to play sports even when I don't train and it also helps to keep my head free.

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