Real-time biometric monitoring with medical-grade sensors in live professional sports competition

What is it about?

We tested the feasibility of using small, wearable medical-grade sensors, paired with a novel technology system, to capture and process real-time HR data from elite athletes during live professional sports competition. We demonstrate for the first time that it is possible to accurately measure and monitor real-time heart rate in elite athletes during competition.

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Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash

Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash

Why is it important?

The study provides the first published evidence for real-time capture, digital processing, and heart rate display from medical-grade sensors in live professional sports competition. It has tremendous implications for understanding the contributors to a given athlete’s heart rate at a given moment in time – physical demand, exertion, state of hydration, fatigue, stress, stage of the match, autonomic nervous system tone and others. The level of precision and data yield reported here make it possible to perform future analyses on inter-beat intervals, heart rate variability and autonomic nervous system tone, and to investigate other digital biomarkers of performance.