The Maracanã stadium is digitized by the Spanish company Fracttal.

The Madrid-based company geolocates up to 100,000 assets in the complex for monitoring and maintenance.

The iconic Brazilian stadium Maracanã - officially called Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho and with a capacity for almost 79,000 fans -, football home of Flamengo and Fluminese, and witness, among other things, to two World Cup finals, the Copa América and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympic Games, is facing a significant makeover by the Spanish company Fracttal , a specialist in high-tech intelligent maintenance solutions.

Following its last renovation in 2014 - it has had several for safety reasons up to its current capacity (the World Cup match between Brazil and Uruguay, the famous Maracanazo in which the Canarinha lost 2-1, holds the attendance record for an official match with 199,854 fans) - Fracttal has now digitalized its entire maintenance structure , including its adjacent sports complex: the Flamengo Regatta Club, the Maracanãzinho Gymnasium, the Júlio Delamare Water Park and the Célio de Barros Athletics Stadium.

Inaugurated in 1950, Maracaná is thus looking to the future with the help of the startup from Alcobendas (Madrid), which faced among its main challenges an aging infrastructure, excessive manual processes , and a significant loss of critical data. Through 'Fracctal One ', the Alcobendas-based company—which has branches in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile —has registered more than 100,000 assets collected in 29 operational technical disciplines. Everything is organized by sectors (north, south, east, and west), by pillars (from 1 to 60), and, of course, by levels (ground floor to fifth floor). In this way, all these assets are geolocated, organized, and with traceability of the interventions on them.

We're proud that Fracttal technology is part of the maintenance of a facility that is a world sporting heritage site. We're not just modernizing it, we're preparing it for the future.

Christian Struve, CEO and co-founder of Fracttal

This geolocation allows Fracttal to carry out both preventive and corrective maintenance of the facilities. Thus, monthly checks of the air conditioning in the locker rooms, testing of the emergency lighting system, and maintenance of the fire protection system are carried out preventively. A critical network that abandons the tedious routine of paper records and task lists and is executed with full traceability.

In both these cases and in those where the incident is already real (corrective level) - such as an anomaly in the irrigation system pressure - after receiving the alert, Fracttal automatically generates a work order (WO) that is sent directly to the corresponding technician with all the details related to the asset and its information, and the intervention to be carried out.

Another pillar of the project has been the implementation of IoT sensors ('Fracttal Sense') connected to 'Fracttal One' , which allow real-time monitoring of critical systems such as the field's drainage pump, essential for keeping the turf in optimal condition, especially on days of heavy rain.

Digitizing the Maracanã is not only a milestone for Fracttal, it is a symbol of the leap the sports industry is making towards technology.

Christian Struve, CEO and co-founder of Fracttal

In addition to automating work orders and monitoring assets in real time, Fracttal's platform allows the generation of key performance indicators (the famous KPIs) that facilitate strategic decision-making. This allows, for example, the analysis of which areas of the stadium are experiencing the most incidents, which assets are close to the end of their useful life, or which equipment requires the most maintenance resources. It also allows the company to keep track of the entire stock of spare parts and connect it directly to each work order, optimizing orders when necessary.

Having a centralized and connected platform like Fracttal represents a competitive advantage that not only guarantees compliance with international maintenance and safety standards, but also lays the foundation for transforming the Maracanã into a smart and sustainable infrastructure , ready for the upcoming challenges of sport and entertainment.