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In the sports and fitness environment, sensor data from acceleration sensors, for example, are being measured today. This data is processed directly on the sports equipment and relevant data such as impacts is recognized directly on the person - without transmission to a cloud. This information is then made available directly to the athlete and can be used, for example, to support training in real time.
In the Eurostars project iBall-R2, Fraunhofer IIS, together with its partners NEXT11 Technologies, Select Sports A/s and Ming Labs Gmbh, has developed a system that enables coaches and players in amateur clubs to analyze their training and performance in games and improve in a targeted manner.
The Danish startup NEXT11 Technologies is a sports technology company that helps footballers and ice hockey players to make progress using patented tracking solutions.
Game events such as kicks and passes, as well as information on ball possession, are determined using classic methods of general and Bayesian statistics. Machine learning is used to estimate player speeds.
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS