"Smart" clothing to manage athletic performance 
Analog Devices has partnered with Microsoft and Hexoskin on a ‘smart’ jersey for athletes. The vest, boasting Hexoskin's innovative e-textile platform with Microsoft Azure IoT technology, analyses physical information from wearers and combines it with environmental and location data, which is then sent to a cloud-based platform to be analysed. It is hoped the wearable tech will help maintain players’ health and reduce the risk of injury. Vice president of IoT, healthcare and consumer business units at Analog Devices, Martin Cotter, said he was “thrilled” to work alongside Microsoft and Hexoskin.

Analog Devices has announced its collaboration with Microsoft Corp. and Hexoskin on a unique, wearable internet of things (IoT) solution for athlete and team performance management. The IoT solution allows coaches and team staff to monitor player information such as motion, heart rate, and other useful health and performance metrics from sensor-equipped vests worn by players.

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 has announced its collaboration with Microsoft Corp. and Hexoskin on a unique, wearable internet of things (IoT) solution for athlete and team performance management. The IoT solution allows coaches and team staff to monitor player information such as motion, heart rate, and other useful health and performance metrics from sensor-equipped vest#

“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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