Technology In Sports To Enhance Players Performance Technology is part of everyday life, and some of this technology has a place within a sport. For example, people use a global positioning system (GPS) in their car, or when hiking to monitor how far they have traveled or how long it will take to arrive at the destination. Similar technology can be used in sport to determine how far an athlete has run during a game or to quantify how straight someone paddled a kayak. This modern-day knowledge can provide new feedback to athletes and thus tell them something they didn’t already know. Or at times this technology is merely telling them something that the coach has repeatedly said but that somehow didn’t get through. How many times has a golf coach told a golfer, “You are lifting your head just as the club is making contact with the ball?" The golfer doesn’t feel her head moving and for a number of reasons doesn’t or can’t make a correction to her technique. If the coach uses a video camera to record her swing and then plays the video back, the golfer can see the fault in the mechanics. More advanced technology can measure the amount of movement, like how far the head lifted, and with the use of force transducers and EMG (electromyography), can measure the timing of muscle sequences. This type of monitoring with technology can provide a new approach to coaching; therefore, in understanding sport mechanics, we need to understand and incorporate technology into the training sessions. Colleges are hiring Director of Technology Services for Athletics related to all sports review http://www.dartfish.com/data/document/document/1104.pdf . This covers Advanced Human Performance: Development of new advanced materials, equipment, sensors, and analytic strategies that enable athletes to realize their full potential. Second optimizing the game plan including sports analytics, statistics, data mining, game theory. Third , Safety: Analysis of injury and risk, and design and development protective equipment along with associated new materials and sensor. Today everyone around the globe has been scurrying around basically making the training environment for the athlete high-tech,” said David James, a sports engineer and senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in England, which runs the Centre for Sports Engineering Research. Fortune 500 companies like Apple hire over one hundred technology scouts that travel the global evaluating new technology. A baseball team minor league system needs to evaluate and enhance the new talent to bring up to majors as fast as the development will allow. New technology can speed up the process of player development . A tech scout offers additional dimension to find new technology related to athlete performance. A player personal director / GM can plan 2016 new technology roadmaps to be tested & proven out. Jlyons Marketing ( JLM ) can provide demo ready slightly modified per specifications of teams requirements. Technology Used In Sports 1 of 23 OTHER SPORTS TECHNOLOGY US DEFENSE R & D OEMS MEDICAL DEVICES ( Start-Ups , Research Labs , Fortune 500 ) RESEARCH LABS Human Performance Labs Fortune 500 R & D annually is spent roughly $300Billion a year related to healthcare and computes.The point to make is no R & D dollars needed to be spent for sports training tools. The range covers enhance performance to injury prevention • Tracking Technology Revolutionizes Athlete Training http://www.athleticbusiness.com/equipment/tracking-technology-revolutionizes- athlete-training.html • Injury Prevention technology example http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20150715_Phils_need_to_take_healthy_l ook_at_injury-prevention_data.html?nlid=8580391 2 of 23 Other Sports Examples Top 10 Tech in Sports http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1262759&page_number=4 An example training tools that be develop so players can see the ball like Ted Williams Ted Williams was thought to have the greatest eyes in baseball. Ty Cobb once said, ''Ted Williams sees more of the ball than any man alive - but he still demands a perfect pitch.''When he entered the Navy in 1942, Williams’ vision was found to be 20/10.''They used to write a lot of bull about my eyesight,'' Williams said. ''How I could read license numbers on cars before another guy could see the license. . . . Or how I could read the label on a phonograph record while it was going around the turntable. ‘What made it worse was when I took my physical with the Navy, they announced my eyesight was 20/10 and the intern said, 'This guy's got terrific eyesight.' 'Sure, I think I had good eyesight, maybe exceptional eyesight, but not superhuman eyesight. A lot of people have 20/10 vision. The reason I saw things was that I was so intense . . . it was discipline, not super eyesight.’' vision. The reason I saw things was that I was so intense . . . it was discipline, not super eyesight.’’ Nationals players praise special glasses that help strengthen vision http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/12/eyes-have-it-with-help-of- special-spectacles/?page=all 3 of 23 Training Tools for Sports : - Baseball mount the device to the knob of their bat to replay their swing in three dimensions, and lets one view it from all angles, including a bird’s eye top- down view. Included in the playback are visually highlighted areas to track bat plane and bat path. Hawk-Eye is a complex computer system used officially in numerous sports such as cricket, tennis, Gaelic football, hurling and association football,badminton, to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a record of 4 statistically most likely path as a moving image Video-Based Sports Analytics Solutions http://www.news-sap.com/sap- panasonic-launch-joint-initiative-video-based-sports-analytics-solutions/ SAP and Panasonic Launch Joint Initiative for Video-Based Smart Googles video googles 1000 frames per second ( slow motion ) http://www.sporttechie.com/2014/03/13/three-ways-google-glass-could-be- utilized-by-the-nba/#more-18172 Tampa Bay Rays recently installed a motion-capture system called KinaTrax designed to monitor their pitchers' mechanics. In addition to helping their coaches work with players on short-term fixes that improve performance, you can bet the Rays will be spending countless man hours crunching each game's data in search of patterns that might correlate with injuries. 4 of 23 Training Tools For Sports • Spin doctors’ high-tech simulation helps skaters nail those jumps Sports Analytics Solutions http://articles.philly.com/2014-02- 03/news/46927572_1_simulation-cameras-jumps • How a Danish tech company is revolutionizing pitching data http://www.si.com/more-sports/2011/04/12/fastballs-trackman • • Image speed , motion capture etc Over the past few years, motion capture has gone to a "markerless" model, doing away with the silly suits and long setup previously needed to allow for capture and analysis. The next phase along those lines could be in using a suit like the PrioVR, which captures far more data and does so in real time. • Golf as an example has the most patents for hitting a ball techniques 5 of 23 OEM ’s • Apparel from track suits to running shoes, new designs and re-engineered fabrics are aimed at making athletes faster. Compression garments are a big trend. Compression helps blood flow and keeps an area taut so there is less muscle pull and strain, said Mark Sunderland, a textile engineer at Philadelphia University and a performance-apparel expert. Textile can currently measure compressive force,tensile force and temperature. • Apparel Technology in Sports is Optimizing Player Performance http://iq.intel.com/sartorial-sports-tech-powered-apparel-optimizes-player- performance Wearables and company wellness programs go hand-in-hand Iron Mountain sees big drop in insurance costs with LiveWell program, aided by wearable devices. • Broadcaster equipment that can be adapted for video analytics Instant Replay from broadcaster that adapts to player development A ref cam system is a wearable, HD 1080i wireless camera system designed to capture the point-of-view (POV) of the referee during live broadcast productions of sporting events. The camera is small, with dimensions of 1.75 inches high by 1.125 inches wide by 3.5 inches long, and lightweight, weighing in at 3.77 ounces. • Sensors The application of modern sensor technology to the athlete’s quest for improvement is just beginning. While some innovative fitness devices have come to market in the last few years, these represent just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how these sensors and embedded computing power will revolutionize the way that aspiring and even casual athletes approach their training and development. ttp://www.st.com/st-web- ui/static/active/en/resource/sales_and_marketing/presentation/product_prese ntation/MEMS_Summit_Matt_Apanius.pdf Hundreds of wireless sensor technologies from startups to Fortune 500 companies like Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions GmbH. Sensors communicate with data analytics video / software OEMS Image sensors ( an example Toshiba & OmniVision ) JLM sold over $100M in cell phones OEM’s -SENSORS 6 of 23 Researchers Use Sensor Technology to Improve Athletic Performance http://umaine.edu/news/blog/2011/03/25/researchers-use-sensor-technology- to-improve-athletic-performance/ Sensory Training Technology Takes Hold in the NFL http://techland.time.com/2012/01/03/sensory-training-technology-takes-hold-in-the- nfl/ Technology, however, provides us with many different kinds of sensors for specifically measuring these attributes. The key, however, is not what sensors you can throw into a package, but how you use the data from all of these sensors together to paint a detailed and realistic picture of the critical moments in sports. The table below looks at some of the more widely available sensors and how they may be applied to sports. Sensor Sports Applicability Doppler Object Speed Accelerometer Acceleration (limited inference of position, velocity) Ultrasonic Distance, (inference of velocity and acceleration) Photo Detectors (IR, Light) Position, proximity Magnetic Sensors (Hall Effect, Reed, magnetomer) Position, Cadence, speed, (inference of acceleration, position) Temperature Sensors Environmental factors, body temperature Humidity Sensors Environmental factors CCD/CMOS Position, proximity, (with significant processing, form and execution) Sound Device Interaction, activity inference OEM’s • Automotive 7 of 23 How Formula 1 Technology Innovations are Racing Us into the Future http://iq.intel.com/how-formula-1-is-racing-us-into-the-future/ • Virtual Reality http://www.edn.com/electronics-products/other/4438099/Module- transforms-eyewear-into-smart-augmented-reality- devices?_mc=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_productsandtools_20141229&cid=NL_E DN_EDT_EDN_productsandtools_20141229&elq=49c71205fd6e4d038d76bc df46d046bf&elqCampaignId=209 • EYEWEAR / GOOGLES Smart Googles video googles 1000 frames per second ( slow motion ) http://www.sporttechie.com/2014/03/13/three-ways-google-glass-could-be- utilized-by-the-nba/#more-18172 OEM’s Software Video analytics software ( pitching ) http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--mlb- team-enlisting-potentially-revolutionary-technology-to-study-pitching- 154837850.html? soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma 8 of 23 • Quantum Interface Launches Intuitive, Easy Navigation for Augmented Reality Based on Motion and Predictive Navigation • Camera slow motion / instant replay HD cameras have built-in GPS elevation distance tracking , Bluetooth capability to control a camera remotely and lashed to helmets • Optical motion capture analyze performance movements, features digital video graphics that can enhance visual feedback instantaneously in different ways. It permits the athlete and the provider to examine performance deficiencies in extensive visual detail, • Biomechanics enable a whole body approach to real-time biomechanics measurement EMG, gait analysis, biofeedback and 2D/3D motion analysis. Human Performance Labs Companies include • GSK http://www.gskhpl.com, 9 of 23 • JNJ Human Performance Institute Division of Wellness & Prevention, • Nike • Redbull • Under Armour All have multi-million dollar labs set up. Currently work with athletics related player performance. COMBINING WORLD CLASS SPORTS SCIENTISTS WITH CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY MEDICAL OEMS 10 of 23