Pizza, beer and… Iot
For many of us it would be the perfect evening: a cold drink, food delivery and a bit of sport on TV. Today, unlike a few years ago, technology also invests and overwhelms the world of sport and the use of content by users.
AWS has already entered the heart of this epochal challenge that promises to revolutionize the way we watch a football match.
What would it be like to analyze tactics in real time, to study what the opponent’s weaknesses are through sensors placed on his body?
What until a few years ago was absolutely unthinkable could now become reality thanks to the computing power of AWS combined with artificial intelligence and machine learning models.
“There is a real revolution taking place thanks to AWS – said AWS serverless principal evangelist Danilo Poccia -. Thanks to computing power, analysis and data processing, it is possible to make a difference, on and off the pitch, thanks to sporting events that involve and glue millions of fans to the screen, becoming increasingly exciting”.
The football industry becomes 4.0 and starts from the Old Continent, from the top professional league of the German football league: the Bundesliga. The first division of the German league has selected AWS as a technology partner in the development of artificial intelligence systems and machine learning models, at the service of football clubs and to respond to a growing demand for statistics and forecasting calculations from spectators.
Circuit racing also uses AWS to give four-wheel enthusiasts an unforgettable experience. Since the 2019 season, in fact, AWS has been an official provider of Cloud services. Formula 1 is not only a battle to the death between the best drivers in the world, but it is also a challenge between engineers. No other sport has been so dynamic in its evolution and use of new technologies. So while some of the technology goes to help drivers (such as making a pit stop in seconds), much of it also serves to improve the experience of its growing base of more than half a billion fans.
Even ancient and noble martial arts make use of IoT technologies. For example, the mixed martial arts organization uses the latest generation technologies such as sensors placed on an athlete’s gloves, sophisticated cameras that allow you to interpret facial expressions, to evaluate the strength and precision of a punch, the fighting style and so on and so forth.
The latest technology could overwhelm even the leading professional basketball league in the United States. Suffice it to say that AWS is a cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence provider for Clippers CourtVision, the live gaming and augmented reality platform created by Los Angeles Clippers and Second Spectrum, the official provider of video-tracking technology for the NBA.
Copernican revolutions are also expected in the world of the National Football League. Football players wear an array of RFID sensors aimed at capturing data during practice and games. The position, speed, and acceleration of each player are recorded at all times and sent to the AWS Cloud, which analyzes and processes them in real time.
