Intel’s Drone And Bat Sensors Eye Cricket at Champions Trophy 2017

Intel-powered devices will be used by cricketers at the Champions Trophy 2017.

Intel is going big with its latest products at the upcoming Champions Trophy 2017 to be played in England. The renowned chip maker has designed a slew of products that will be part of the global cricketing event. One of the devices to be showcased has been made by an India-based startup called Speculur.

Intel has been coveting sports with its products – first baseball, and now they’re focusing on cricket.

With higher levels of digitisation, Intel is in a unique position to enable the sports industry to capture and analyse data to uncover and respond to new insights in real time

Sandra Lopez, Vice President-Sports Group, Intel 

Let’s take a closer look at what they are.

Pitch Analysing Drones

Intel has packed its technology onto the Intel Falcon 8 drone, that comes fitted with HD infrared cameras, which can be used to analyse the pitch.

The drone enables pitch curators to study the condition of the pitch, including the amount of grass cover there is. Intel claims this is the first time when a drone will be used to analyse pitch by the groundsman as well as the commentators.

Bat Sensors

This is more integral to a batsmen, who can analyse his game, and improve on it to get better match scores. Intel has powered the sensor with its Curie technology that is affixed to the bat handle to generate data for every stroke the batsman plays.

Intel will offer the sensor to several batsman at the Champions Trophy 2017, who will be the first to make use of the features available with the sensor. Speculur, the company behind the sensor, has announced that the bat sensor will be rolled out to consumers later in 2017.

Speculur plans to make Speculur BatSense with Intel Inside available in Australia, India, the United States and the UK in the second half of 2017.

Speculur

In addition to this, Intel will also be setting up a Virtual Reality experience zone, offering head mounded display to test batting skills against virtual bowlers.