Positioning System for soccer balls and players
Posted on Jan 10, 05 09:21 AM PDT
I imagine that one could even record all this data and replay it at a later time, to "reconstruct" a game in 3D for tactical analysis. I'm sure that sports channels are going to be all over it. I don't know how practical this system is going to be for something else, depending on the range and the battery life of the positioning device. |
Sports might get a little bit higher tech soon. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has created an electronic device that can be embedded in a soccer ball and send its exact position at the rate of 2000 samples per second. Radio waves sent by the device are received by antennas around the field.
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Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Systems
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