The Internet of Things is already linking up in sports

January 26, 2014

Jason Fass, the CEO of Zepp Labs, imagines a future for sports where sensors are everywhere: in balls, bats, footballs and in a player’s clothing. It’s hard not to get caught up in this vision. A big part of sports is all about collecting and analyzing data—and sensors can give you more of that data to work with, much more. Improving your own game with 3D visualizations of a golf swing is part of it, too. ”We believe that every ball, bat, racket, club, glove, helmet will be digitally connected,” Fass said. “We are building a company platform to enable those experiences and capture all that data.” Zepp makes sensors for baseball, tennis, and golf, and it now has more money to work with to develop more products. This week the Los Gatos, California-based company, founded in 2012, announced that it had received $15 million in additional funding. That brings to $20 million the amount of money it received last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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