Fergus Guppy, Borja Muniz-Pardos, Konstantinos Angeloudis, Gerasimos V Grivas, Asimina Pitsiladis, Ross Bundy, Irina Zelenkova, Kumpei Tanisawa, Hiroshi Akiyama, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Mike Miller, Melanie Knopp, Fabian Schweizer, Tobias Luckfiel, Daniel Ruiz, Sebastien Racinais, Yannis Pitsiladis
A growing number of companies are developing or using wearable sensor technologies that can monitor, analyse and transmit data from humans in real time that can be used by the sporting, biomedical and media industries. To explore this phenomenon, we describe and review two high-profile sporting events where innovations in wearable technologies were trialled: the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020, Japan) and the 2022 adidas Road to Records (Germany). These two major sporting events were the first time academic and industry partners came together to implement real-time wearable solutions during major competition, to protect the health of athletes competing in hot and humid environments, as well as to better understand how these metrics can be used moving forwards...
October 3, 2023: Sports Medicine