A wireless sensor network for soccer team monitoring

Abstract

One of the most desirable issues in team sports is to know how the physical state of each sportsman or sportswoman is performing during the match. Concretely, a soccer match is 90 minutes long and the players could be more or less tired depending on the dynamic of the soccer game (fast or slow) and on the place where the ball have been rolling (which affects more to one users than others). This paper presents a wireless sensor network proposal for soccer team players' remote monitoring. Each player has a wireless body sensor and each player will be a sensor node in the wireless sensor network. The approach allows knowing the physical state of each player during the whole match. In order to have fast updates and larger connection times to the gateways, the information can be routed through the players of both teams. We focus our study in the network topology and in the mobility model of the soccer players.