Mitre, a British soccer brand, is collaborating with performance technology firm PlayerData on a GPS-enabled connected ball.
The ball is currently in development; the companies say it will be the first product of its kind in the world and will “[mark] a major step forward in how players will soon be able to train, develop and perform."
PlayerData’s GPS tech inside the ball
No external LPS or optical tracking
Greatly reduces cost, complexity of analytics
"Roll it out of the bag and play” ready
Users access data through subscription model
PlayerData supports over 50K athletes worldwide via wearable GPS tracking and performance analysis tools— it is billing the ball as the answer to providing users with tactical and technical data that matches the metrics used for athlete movement, load management, etc.
Pre-orders begin in March ahead of a planned launch this summer.
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