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Briefing
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- Sports Performance Tracking System – Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign embedded sports equipment and athletes’ shoes with sensors and wireless radios to track players’ performance in real-time
- Affordable Sports Analytics – Costs less than $100 in total compared to $1 million for camera-based system, which only big sports clubs can afford
- Artificial Intelligence-Enabled – Operates on advanced motion tracking algorithms that analyze data coming from sensors and wireless radios, as well as inferencing algorithms that track movement to few centimeters, measuring 3D ball motion, such as trajectory, orientation, and revolutions per second
- Smartphone Connected – Connects data and analytics to smartphone via Bluetooth, enabling coaches to provide quantifiable feedback to athletes
- Sports Injuries Monitoring – Can help detect and analyze sports injuries, measuring impact of ball to player’s head, for example
- Charging System – Research team exploring ways to charge sensors, such as system that harvests energy from ball movements
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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February 8, 2017
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