The men’s world Cup is an international soccer tournament contest by senior men’s national teams from various countries. It is one of the most popular international sporting competitions and over five billion people tune in to watch the tournament every four years.
This year’s FIFA World Cup which started on the 20th of November 2022 is being hosted by Qatar. Qatar is the smallest country ever to host the World Cup. Being a peninsular Arab country, whose terrain comprises an arid desert and a long Persian (Arab) Gulf shoreline of beaches and dunes. It has a population of about 2,931 million.
Football makes progress
Advancements in technology are made each day and it is no secret that these have been applied to various sports, including football. Due to various football leagues and continental cups, some of them don’t use specific types of technology due to the preference of the fans.
Whether you call it football or soccer, the excitement of the beautiful game does unite fans all over the world. It is a well-known fact that technology can create controversy in a sport that is already loaded with passionate fans.
Technology continues to have a big impact on virtually every aspect of football life in recent times. If you’re thinking that technology is only used in industries and big organizations, keep calm and be ready to be surprised. You should know that it is now used in Football in all the major leagues in the world.
Football for the longest time has had no need to use technology when playing competitive matches. However, in the 2018 World Cup tournament in Russia, VAR established itself as an integral technology that helps to make crucial decisions during matches.
Looking into the future, the following are five ways Technology will help to enhance football:
The rise and rise of Google Glass
Giving Assistant Referees more helping hand with prozone
Appealing Debatable decisions to a video reference
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Technology is progressively assisting us with working on our lives, incrementing efficiency, and saving time in numerous areas, including football. From 21st November to 18th December, the biggest men’s football tournament on the planet, FIFA World Cup 2022, will officially take place. Hosting 32 nations including Ghana and Senegal in Qatar.
Let’s take a look at some of the technologies that will be applied in the tournament to make it fair and decisive.
1. VAR Technology
Following quite a while of testing with many matches, the IFAB has formally placed into utilization video assistant referee (VAR) innovation. The 21st FIFA World Cup is the first competition to apply this innovation to help arbitrators. After the progress of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, VAR innovation will likewise be applied in the 2022 World Cup. Thanks to this technology, the transparency in football in particular, and sports, in general, has been significantly improved. Also, sports betting players can be assured of the results when placing bets at reputable betting sites like soccer Betway.
VAR associates three distinct camera frameworks:
Hawk Eye: comprises 7 to 14 high-velocity cameras mounted on the top of the arena. Peddle Eye will foresee the way of the ball to guarantee that no less than two cameras can record it. At the point when the ball turns over the objective line, the official’s watch will flag that the ball has entered the net.
GoalControl-4D: incorporates 14 cameras put on the goal, following the ball’s movement and conveying messages to the arbitrator’s watch.
GoalRef: is an electromagnetic enlistment framework mounted on the crossbar and vertical post of the goal, making an attractive field. At the point when the ball turns over the goal line, out of the touchline, the chip inside the football will sound, and the ref’s watch will likewise get a sign.
As needs are, a gathering of colleague refs will observe all improvements of the match through TV screens and sit in a different room of the arena stands. When distinguishing mistakes from the choice of the ref on the field, they will convey a message to the referees on the field to survey what is happening through TV. Obviously, the ultimate choice actually lies with the ref, yet this innovation will assist with settling disputable circumstances well.
2. Goal-line technology
At the 2014 FIFA World Cup, France’s Karim Benzema was quick to profit from goal-line technology as the ball crossed Honduras’ objective inside milliseconds. . Goal-line is a technique that utilizes PCs to decide if the ball has totally crossed the objective line or not. This innovation assisted officials with tackling up to eight circumstances at the 2015 FIFA Ladies’ Big showdown in Canada.
At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, arenas in Russia were all furnished with Goal-line innovation with 14 high-velocity cameras, which can convey a message to the official’s watch in less than a second when the match shows up. The ball crosses the goal line. What’s more, this innovation will continue to be applied in the 2022 World Cup competition.
3. Electronic tracking system
This innovation will constantly be utilized in each match at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, including various specialized apparatuses and gadgets for the two teams. The specialized and clinical staff of the partaking groups will be furnished with workstations and a devoted line to speak with mentors, as well as clinical staff on the seat. By investigating the player’s movement on the field, the mentor can change the strategies as needed.
Who will emerge as champions of the 2022 world cup at the end of the competition? We will wait and see.
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Silicon Valley-based AI startup, Blink Tech Inc., is trying to revolutionize the video recording experience with its Blink Focos app and Gimbal tool. The technology focuses on turning your mobile phone into a fully automated cameraman by leveraging AI and computer vision.
Blink Tech says traditionally most people use a mobile phone as the only tool and medium to capture an experience. Noting that video equipments are often either bulky or expensive. So, whether it is the price point or lack of accessibility, Blink wants to help offer you a one-stop-shop tool. One that is at your fingertip to capture any experience in full automation with the capability to zoom in and out as well as live streaming.
Our product – FOCOS App (analyze video images from phone’s camera and control the Gimbal via Bluetooth) and Gimbal (battery life of up to 5 hours that is foldable about palm size) that work with each other
With the Blink Focos app, the video clips captured can be uploaded to the cloud live for you to revisit. It also provides you with data analytics functionalities that analyze motion, speed.
We developed a smart and rotatable phone mount along with an AI app.Which essentially enables smartphones to automatically record sports games such as soccer or basketball games. In addition, it supports live sports game streaming over the Internet and can help customers edit and analyze recorded game videos from the cloud side. To date, this is the first smart recording solution based on smartphones.
How Blink Focos works
Blink Tech says all consumers can leverage their product for day-to-day capturing of life moments. Noting it is not just limited to sports. “You can capture your families, friends, events that you attend or any other memories that you want to take charge of effortlessly and lively“.
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GITEX Global 2021 is underway in Dubai and Microsoft is taking the opportunity to showcase its latest technological innovations in the areas of the future of work and sustainable smart cities. Alongside partners such as Schneider Electric, AVEVA, Digital Okta, Predica, Cloud 4C, Crayon, Rackspace, Liferay, TechVista, Intertec and Jedox.
Microsoft’s theme at GITEX Global 2021 is creating a “bolder digital future together”, with the company mapping out its vision for a more sustainable future. The event is taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre till the 21st of October 2021.
few things are more pressing today than solving the issue of climate change
Microsoft is challenging everyone to imagine a more sustainable future this year says Sayed Hashish, General Manager, Microsoft UAE. He notes that the company is constantly striving to find solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. He adds that few things are more pressing today than solving the issue of climate change.
“We have partnered with Schneider Electric, to bring Dubai’s sustainability vision to life. Our collaboration, running on Azure and powered by the Microsoft Cloud demonstrates how a combination of cutting-edge technologies can translate large amounts of data into actionable, sustainability-focused outcomes. This will turn urban environments from being part of the climate problem into becoming part of the solution. Together with our partners, we look forward to showcasing some of the ground-breaking innovations which will empower our customers to thrive in the digital economy and hybrid work environment.”
Sayed Hashish
You can find Microsoft and Microsoft partners on the event floor at Hall 7, dubbed the Microsoft hub. It houses an experiential center where you can have a hands-on with their products and solutions. Such as the Sustainable Smart City Command Center demo, Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections, Xbox, Windows 11 and Surface laptops. It also features a talk area for discussions, keynotes and workshops.
Microsoft says GITEX delegates will be able to try out its future of work products and solutions that allows employees to work, learn, and play under new flexible relationships with employers, all fuelled by the intelligent cloud. The company will also show how a balance can be struck between in-person and digital collaboration.
Last year the company focused on showcasing how it supports sustainable farming using AI, Edge and IoT,
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Four computer science final year students of the United States International University – Africa (USIS) in Kenya will represent the Europe Middle East and Africa region at the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Championship.
The students are winners of the healthcare category and one of four teams advancing to the finals of this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup competition. Where they get to compete with other teams from New Zealand, the United States, and Thailand for USD75,000 and mentorship with Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella.
“We have no words, it means a lot“
The Team
Meet team REWEBA, made of four members; Khushi Gupta, Jeet Gohil, Dharmik Karania, and Abdihamid Ali. REWBA comes from their innovation name Remote Well Baby.
Team REWEBA entered into the competition under the healthcare category with an IoT-based early warning system for babies. Their innovation remotely monitors infant parameters during regular post-natal screening. It then sends measurements to doctors remotely, allowing for immediate interventions saving infants from fatal diseases, and reducing infant mortality rates.
The students from Kenya say we have no words, it means a lot after working hard to get to the Imagine Cup World Championship.
Their journey includes beating tens of thousands of students from 163 countries in the online semifinal round. Then selected as part of 40 teams to qualify for round one of the World Finals stage. Where two other student teams from Kenya; Cafrilearn and INTELLIVOLT qualified to compete.
They among 11 other teams from across the world qualified to present in round two of the World Finals. Advancing to the next stage of the competition means the team wins USD10,000 and Azure credits.
Imagine Cup World Championship
The four finalists present ideas that tackle local and global issues in one of each of the competition categories; healthcare, education, earth, and lifestyle. The three other teams are Team ProTag from New Zealand, Hand-On-Labs from the USA, and Threeotech from Thailand.
The world championship is taking place before the Microsoft Build 2021 Keynotes. Team REWEBA from Kenya will get the opportunity to be the first team from Africa to win the Microsoft Imagine Cup student competition.
Every year at CES, the global stage for innovation, you see some ‘oh wow’ breakthrough technologies. This AI-powered planting system by New Garden Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese startup is one. Meet the ULTRON Smart AI Gardener, a self-caring planting system controlled by AI.
It is a self-caring plant container with AI service supported by the UltronSMART Agriculture Platform and App. The platform supports real-time collection, process, analysis, and visualization of data from various IoT devices. Leveraging a technology it calls AIoT ecosystem.
The plant pot [conatiner] is embedded with smart lighting, a watering system, and multiple connected sensors. Which can be taken as a microcosm of a Cloud-to-edge Smart Agriculture System powered by ULTRON.
New Garden says, by cooperating with agriculture experts, the UltronSMART AI Gardener can automatically grow any plants with almost zero effort.
Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) selected the company as one of the 100 featured Taiwanese startups to showcase at CES 2021.
Check out how the AI powered smart garden works from the video below. Tell us what you think as well in the comments.
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