Integrating sports with technology: Sports Technology
What is Sports Technology?
Technology has entered lives as if it never left, leaving no area untouched. It joined hand with sports too, giving birth to a new sports industry itself.
Sports Technology is a combination where sports and technology work together to accomplish multiple goals which come under a single aim, uplifting all sports, sportspersons, other stakeholders, and most importantly fans.
Technology in sports has spread itself in every aspect of sports from enhancing performance, managing tournaments, connecting fans to sporting legends, dissemination of information across terrains. What happens on the field is captured and replayed at any time by anyone.
Transparency and fair play in sports is what technology has enhanced, with the glowing of stumps in cricket to capture every move on the field.
Technology blended in sports in a way that filled every possible gap, previous generations faced while watching or playing the sport.
Bringing the E- gaming industry into existence, technology holds the crown of this honour.
Application of Sports Technology
- E Gaming: With the number of tournaments organized at every level, a new profession of gaming is booming.
- Fair Play: With the glowing stumps to re-playing the move, a third eye watches everything.
- Management: Managing the draw and schedule of matches and filling inaccurate details of the Player.
- Performance Analysis: Using technology like Motion Capture to analyze player’s skills and enhance it.
- Fan Engagement: Social Media platforms where fans and sports professionals can connect and engage.
- Connections: Helping people working in the Sports ecosystem connect to each other.
- Showcasing: Providing upcoming sports talent a platform to showcase their skills
- Enhanced Reach and Viewership: With the coming of OTT platforms sports have reached every terrain and to every age group, with a single click.