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The Beautiful link between Technology and Football

The Beautiful link between Technology and Football

by | Nov 27, 2022 | AI, General, IoT, Other News

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.

aerial view of fifa world cup 2022 stadium in Qatar

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.

Technology has proven to be extremely helpful and has assisted match officials in making the right call. Albeit not always the most popular one.

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:

  1. The rise and rise of Google Glass
  2. Giving Assistant Referees more helping hand with prozone
  3. Appealing Debatable decisions to a video reference
  4. Refereeing Debatable decisions to a video referee
  5. Goal-Line Technology

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Qatar University students win 2022 Microsoft Imagine Cup Qatar competition

Qatar University students win 2022 Microsoft Imagine Cup Qatar competition

by | Mar 1, 2022 | AI, General, Imagine Cup, Microsoft Gulf, Students

A Qatar University student team is the winner of the 2022 Microsoft Imagine Cup student qualifying competition in Qatar. The team, RE-TEAM, will represent Qatar at the Imagine Cup World Finals in Seattle later this year. For a chance to win 100,000 USD and a mentoring session with Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella.

The 7th edition of the Imagine Cup national qualifying competition saw over 130 students participating virtually. Nine teams moved on to round two of the competition with six teams battling it out at the finals.

Qatar University Microsoft Imagine Cup

RE-TEAM won $5000 cash prize, with their earth-friendly solution ‘The RE-Team Software’, under the Earth category. It seeks to provide durable and efficient robots that are able to detect and sort out different kinds of garbage on a conveyor belt using Microsoft Azure Custom Vision Service. As well as to encourage the public to throw their garbage in the correct bin.

Oryx Team and Team Trojan, the first and second runners up respectively also went to Qatar University student teams. They take home $3000 and $2000 in cash prizes respectively.

Oryx Team created Qalbee, a mobile system app for the early prediction of heart disorder risk, under the Health category. Using real-time ECG signals with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms. Whilst Team Trojan created a chatbot app under the education category, Trojan Wave app, that helps students choose a major.

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