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The Brazilian canoeing won an important ally in trying to achieve medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio-2016. On Wednesday, the Brazilian Canoeing Federation (ICF) has signed a contract with GE Brazil to develop software that will monitor the performance of athletes and canoes and provide real-time results to the coaching staff. The parties do not reveleram the value of the deal.
The information will be transmitted to a central system of the company, which will cross all data automatically. The coach of the Brazilian national team, the Spaniard Jesus Morlan, you can view them through a tablet. For this to happen, there will be sensors such as GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer installed in canoes and athletes. Will be measured the intensity of the strokes, the speed and direction of vessels
-. This partnership gives us the opportunity of using technologies that we have already been developing. While the coach is analyzing the live athletes, they will receive real-time data to improve training. The software will not solve the problem of athletes. The idea is that they have quality information – said Marcelo Blois, leader of the Software area and Productivity Global GE Research Center in Brazil
The research work will start in April, and the expectation of. ICF is that in June athletes already have the technology available in training. It will be used in the cities of Lagoa Santa (MG), São Paulo, Curitiba (PR) and Foz do Iguaçu (PR), which hosts the training of Olympic and Paralympic teams of operations linked to the organization
. – We won a highly competitive advantage for our preparation aiming to the Olympic Games and strengthen our expectations by winning medals with the support of a large company that is also an important partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) – said the president of ICF, John Tomasini.
GE, which is a partner of the IOC since 2005, has supported China’s team of ice skating at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 and the Olympic Snowboard Team Winter Sochi in 2014. Both won gold medals
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