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[Denim Chicken]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming to the NFL in a big way.

On Thursday, when the defending Superbowl XLIX champion New England Patriots host the Pittsburgh Steelers to open the 2015 football season, each player will be equipped with a set of RFID sensors about the size of a quarter embedded in his shoulder pads, each emitting unique radio frequencies. Gillette Stadium (and every other stadium used by the NFL) has been equipped with 20 receivers to pick up those radio frequencies and pinpoint every player's field position, speed, distance traveled and acceleration in real time.

http://www.cio.com/article/2980853/wearable-technology/the-internet-of-things-comes-to-the-nfl.html

 

[Longboysfan]

The Patriots are working on a way to replicate the sending devices to show that the Steelers have too many players on the field.

 

[Rogah]

It is very interesting to see the spatial analytics that gets applied to this sort of data in football that I have seen done in hockey and basketball (some teams' home arenas track players spatially).

I wonder how valuable it will be in football which isn't as free flowing as those other sports....

 

[Longboysfan]