Circular economy

An innovation in the service of sustainable development

Say See Show stands out through its commitment to sustainable development and the circular economy. This starts with sayseeshow.io, the application that gives old smartphones a second life by turning them into a surveillance system. Here are our key initiatives.

Our commitments

What we concretely do

Award for innovation in the ecological transition

Say See Show won the innovation prize for the ecological transition, awarded by Le Grand Périgueux, which recognises its pioneering role in the fight against electronic waste and its positive impact on the environment.

Giving smartphones a second life

sayseeshow.io turns smartphones destined to become electronic waste into a surveillance system. By using it, each person extends the life of a device that has already been manufactured, and reduces electronic waste to be collected by the same amount.

Eco-responsible hosting and district heating

Our peer-to-peer solutions run no data server: images and sounds are analysed on the smartphones themselves. Only the website and the sayseeshow.io application are hosted at Infomaniak, in Geneva, where the heat produced by the servers is fully recovered to feed the district heating network. The energy our machines use therefore helps to heat thousands of homes, cutting the need for fossil fuels and limiting CO2 emissions.

Development powered by solar energy

sayseeshow.io was developed entirely on solar energy, which shows our commitment to sober technological practices that respect the environment.

Design

sayseeshow.io, a low-consumption application

sayseeshow.io is designed to be light on computation, which reduces the power consumption of the smartphones it runs on. A smartphone that is asked less of it lasts longer.

On-device detection

Image analysis and sound processing run on the device: the data is neither sent back nor stored on a server.

Peer-to-peer communication

Devices talk directly to each other: no central server to run, hence little energy consumed on the infrastructure side.

A reused device

A smartphone from 2010 to today, already manufactured, replaces a brand-new alarm system. It is the most immediate gain in terms of sobriety.

Through these initiatives, Say See Show embodies an innovative and responsible approach to digital technology, aligned with the global sustainable development goals. See what the press says.

One more smartphone reused, one less electronic waste item

Install sayseeshow.io, give a second life to your devices, and make what you already own last longer.