Analog partners with Microsoft & Hexoskin on wearable IoT

This information, combined with player location and environmental data, is sent to a secure cloud-based analytics platform providing critical insights back to team staff via a dashboard.

The IoT solution utilises Hexoskin's innovative e-textile platform with the Microsoft Azure IoT technology to solve analysis and user-experience challenges with a cloud-based analytics engine as well as the user dashboard application.

“Analog Devices is very excited to lead this initiative, as it involves a unique set of measurement and analytical challenges that we're uniquely positioned to solve. We're thrilled to be working on this challenge along with Microsoft and Hexoskin, without whom a complete deployable solution would not be possible,” said Martin Cotter, vice president, IoT, healthcare and consumer business units, Analog Devices.

While the initial prototypes were developed for athlete management, the technology has implications across numerous team based settings where performance, health and safety, and tactical decision making are critical to enable a successful outcome.

“Helping our customers quickly and easily innovate with IoT is core to our Microsoft Azure IoT offerings. This wearable smart jersey demonstrates how Azure IoT enables advanced analysis and real-time actionable insights from individual athlete and team-level input,” said Jerry Lee, Microsoft director of product marketing, Azure IoT.

The IoT solution enables better overall management of player health, recovery, and injury avoidance, extending the benefits far beyond an individual game. (NA)

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