As reported this Friday the International Federation of Associated Football (FIFA), just a few months before the start of the World Cup in Qatar, It will be used technology semi-automated for offside detection in the great contest that millions of fans around the planet will be watching.
The objective is to further reduce the margin of error, which has been working for years with the implementation of VAR: 12 cameras will be installed under the roof of each stadium to capture the movements of the ball and up to 29 data points of each player to be taken 50 times per second. Thus, the exact positions on the ground of limbs and body parts will be calculated that are taken into account to signal an offside.
The ball will have a unit of measurement inside it. inertial (IMU, for its acronym in English), which will send a data packet 500 times per second to the video room, which will allow the exact moment in which the ball is impacted to be detected.
The data will generate an animation that will be seen on the screens of the stadiums and then will reach the televisions: FIFA will test it in several matches before the big event in Qatar, so that it arrives in impeccable conditions at the World Cup. Do you like its implementation?
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