Artificial Intelligence-Driven and Internet of Things In Sports

Swetank Pathak
Analytics Vidhya
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5 min readJun 19, 2021

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AI and IoT Driven Sports help management, coaches and players to improve the overall performance of a team. Management will be looking for ways to improve the audience engagement, sponsorship management, player transfer; coaches and players will be looking for ways to improve performance through real-time or post-match analysis.

For example;

In a football match there is a generation of a humongous amount of data such as how many passes or tackles done by a player and to whom? Whether this pass aids any sort of value to the match? Which team was having more possession? Who is the fit player? Is there any injury? How many people turned up? Similarly, in cricket, the data could be who scored most? Who took wickets most? Who saved the runs most? How many fours or sixes were hit in a match? Heat map of shots or balls pitched? With Alignment to these sports; other sports also follow similar generations of data.

These are the primary source of data and we could formulate other types of data from these states as secondary data.

With the implementation of AI in sports magnifies the value of data; video technology and IoT based sensor technology provides:

Deeper Data

Deeper Analysis

Deeper Forecasting

Deeper data originating through computer vision helps to track the location of an athlete throughout the match or training. A…

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Swetank Pathak
Analytics Vidhya

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