Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Tour de France and IoT Together At Last

South African IT firm Dimension Data proclaimed that it was partnering with Amaury Sport Organisation, which owns the Tour de France, to deliver big data cycling analytics platform for the first time in the history of professional cycling. This would be accomplished through sensors installed on cyclists' seats, with the data collected and analyzed by Dimension Data's cloud-based platform and delivered to a website that could be customized by the users depending on which cyclists they wanted to follow.
They are collecting sensor data, such as the cyclist's speed, location, and position relative to other cyclists, and processing the data through its cloud platform. 198 riders in 22 teams are generating 42,000 geospatial points and 75 million GPS readings. In addition, the website, once it is up and running, will support 17 million viewers and 2,000 page requests per second. This would probably be the coolest domestic and sport application of IoT ever.

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