GPS technology and its use in sport
Over the last decade, the usage of GPS devices in soccer has spread from elite and professional clubs to amateur. On a side, this has added new values on performance analysis, allowing to produce valuable data and compare different levels of performance. On the other one, the increase of users and analysts, without proper technical, scientific and technological backgrounds, has increased the risk of confusion and sometime, as drastic consequence, lost of credibility in data. Proper acquisition frequency, suitable filtering, noise handling, high performing antennas, interferences reduction systems, sensor fusion, based on AI advanced metrics, alignment between different technologies are conditio sine qua non to allow accurate and usable analysis.
Mirko Marcolini - Biosketch
K-Sport founder & CEO. Background in Biomedical Engineering. Inventor of the first based on mathematical criteria match analysis system, certified by European Patent Office and used by worldwide soccer elite clubs and leagues. Since 2012 K-Sport is scientific and technological partner of Stats Perform, US company owned by Vista Equity Partners (Market-Leading Investment Firm). In 2014 K-Sport has launched the first wearable technology, analyzing internal and external load advanced metrics through a unique device, that includes the highest frequency GPS technology (50Hz) and ECG textile sensors. Since 2015 K-Sport is official supplier of Lega Serie A, providing advanced fitness and technical-tactical metrics to all Serie A clubs, and since 2018 Lega Serie A has chosen K-Sport AI system to award MVP.