Safaricom and Vodafone have been working with scientists to demonstrate how science and technology can help athletes improve their performance in a project dubbed SUB2. The technology is aimed at helping athletes break the two-hour marathon mark.
The current World Record is 2:02:57 and was set by Kenya’s Dennis Kimetto on September 28, 2014, at the Berlin course.
Telecommunication firms Safaricom #ticker:SCOM and Vodafone are working to deliver Internet of Things (IoT) technology to Kenyan athletes to help boost their track performance.
The two have been working with scientists to demonstrate how science and technology can help athletes improve their performance in a project dubbed SUB2.
The technology is aimed at helping athletes break the two-hour marathon mark. The current World Record is 2:02:57 and was set by Kenya’s Dennis Kimetto on September 28, 2014, at the Berlin course.
“This application of IoT in athlete training in Iten and Eldoret will not only help Kenyan athletes improve their performance, it will further refine and fine-tune our IoT solution in readiness for nationwide deployment,” said Thibaud Rerolle, technology director at Safaricom said in a statement.
Vodafone has built a SUB2 smart watch app to provide telemetry with enhanced location tracking using mobile networks. Ethiopian elite marathon runner Kenenisa Bekele used the app as his digital pacemaker in the 2017 Berlin Marathon.
Working with partners, Vodafone engineers have now also enabled a series of body sensors to communicate with the SUB2 app over a mobile network. They include contact time, cadence and strike angle, 3D visualisation, as well as skin and land surface temperature.
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