CORE V: Incorporating Biometric Data into the Platform
Industry Challenge
”It won‘t be long until they see players wearing devices during games. The key issue then will be who has access to the data and when.”
− Brian Kopp, Vice President of STATS, the world‘s leading sports technology, data and content company.
Within the professional sporting world there is an unbridgeable gap between the verifiability of sports professionals daily data outputs and the understanding, use, and interaction of this data with clubs, the professionals themselves and the sporting world of fans.
Sports Ledger has been and is continuously analysing the wearable technology sector to recognise and strategically implement these technologies by identifying;
- Why it has and is progressing at a rapid pace?
- Flaws within the technology and data extraction.
- Who owns the data?
- The huge growth predicted within the upcoming years.
- Allowing sporting athletes to control and monetise from their training and in future real-time live match data.
- Implementing these technologies through athletes within the Sports Ledger network.
The current use of biometric real-time data monitoring and extraction is growing and has become a reality with numerous companies implementing Nano and Biometric wearable tech systems within professional sporting clubs on all sports professionals on a daily basis, however the use of this rich level of sporting data has become stagnant with a lack of algorithms placed on this data to understand and comprehend it better, combined with the fact that the data collected is used within centralised and siloed systems, with an inability for an option to share this data to an avid, receptive sporting global audience.
For athletes globally, innovations in how this data is collected and presented could not come sooner, gaining a golden understanding of what they are actually doing, how they are truly performing, and the use of this as a barometer for improvement or decline. Once delivered, ultimately becoming a competitive edge which they are going to take.
Within all Sports, non-impact related injuries are ever-present. The stem of fatigue and decline in performance, through overtraining and an inability to monitor at a holistic level the granular data generated by sporting professionals on a daily basis, is prevalent within the professional sporting industry. Resulting in a repetitive nature for points of failure for sporting individuals and sporting clubs through inconsistency and unreliability, to the dismay of every interested party in sport, whether it be the sporting professional themselves, or whom they play for, the fans.
The current use of real-time data monitoring and extraction is now a growing reality within all major sports, with companies such as Catapult and Adidas already providing Nano and Biometric wearable tech systems. However key questions remain; how can a system process then deliver this data to the individual (sports professional) the creator, providing them with complete ownership rights and control, and how can this data if chosen be delivered as value, via a network increasing interaction, interest and engagement to a global audience?
Solution
Sports Ledger is committed to delivering a world where aspiring youngsters and elite sporting professionals develop and continue to thrive through the latest wearable biometric devices. These devices the capacity to accurately monitor a player’s capabilities, measuring their strengths and weaknesses throughout their career to pinpoint specific areas where progress is still to be made.
By using the Sports Ledger platform, athletes will be able to build their own digital passport with personalised statistics and biometric information. In turn, athletes will have complete ownership of the data, allowing them to control which users are allowed to access this information, such as their own club or the broader fan base. Athletes will also be able to directly monetise this data and to ensure that it is stored in a tamper-resistant and secure distributed network.
An innovative scope of which the implementation of these technologies will bring benefit to the managers, coaches, athletes, teams, sporting bodies, institutions and fans within Sports Ledger:
- Secure recording of young and senior sporting professionals daily training and future live performances without physical documents, through the modernised transparency of Blockchains and DLT.
- Immutable data outputs from wearable devices will deliver (via GUI) visually enhance analytics across private and public peer-to-peer inter-connectivity, allowing for greater scope into optimising sporting professionals performance and interaction with it.
- The capacity for wearable technology to feed live data streams and comparisons back to the coaches and medical staff, enabling early detection of an injury and hence training adjusted accordingly.
- Data extracted and provided by the wearable devices represent a continual health profile of the athlete, point of reference for the well-being of the individual.
- Delivering a benchmark for athletes to monitor themselves, if subscribed to other professionals Blockchains, a benchmark for themselves against a competitor to identify areas for improvement.
CORE V encompasses a platform that encourages the global integration of engagement and user/viewer interaction through the perspective of the professional athlete fitted with Nano, Biometric wearable technology.
Sports Ledger is already discussing collaborations and partnerships with leading providers of wearable and Nano and bio-metric tech companies for the purpose of accelerating this revolution and to enhance the technological applications and techniques that will drastically improve the quality of sporting broadcasts for an even more innovatively spectacular approach.
Technology Stack
”A good architecture is not created in a vacuum. All design decisions at the architectural level should be made within the context of the functional, behavioral, and social requirements of the system being designed.”
– Roy Fielding
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