Movement tracking of sports team players with wireless sensor network

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a study of applying location aware wireless sensor network system for tracking movements and gathering sensor data from sports team players. A set of system design requirements are developed that cover the design of the sensor network system, the hardware design of the mobile nodes, the design of the position algorithm, the design of communication protocols, and the design of testbed for testing positioning accuracy. Based on the field experiments, we propose a system architecture that fulfills these requirements. The architecture proposed implements e.g. hybrid location technologies for better accuracy and data aggregation for energy efficiency.