Digital enablement bringing significant changes in sports

Vivek Khare
Director-IT, Dailyhunt 

“Technology is making significant changes in sports – changes that are global, effective, and most of the times, positive; improving the quality of game in terms of safety, competition, and access for both the players and the fans. Innovation has become a vital part of progress in sports. All this progress has been given one term to sum it up and that is ‘Sports Tech’.

Smart Sports Equipment- A certain degree of an athlete or sportsman performance depends on the quality of equipment he or she plays with. 2019 is going to be the era of smart equipment domination. 

360 Cameras to do the Judgment - The human eye can never be as accurate as high-quality lenses. Thanks to the advanced technology, we now have better ‘replay options’ which help umpires and referees to make the right call. Although the replay technology isn’t new with the assistance of VR and 360 degrees camera, the chances in error of judgment are almost zero.

Healthcare in India has moved in leaps and bounds in the adoption of technology and Hospitals have managed to keep up pace with the tech adoption to improve the overall engagement and clinical outcomes to the patient but a lot more is needed.  IoT in the form of wearable devices is a direct form of tech adoption to reduce the gap between the Hospital and Home in a patient’s life in addition to the other partners like insurers.”