Informix and the World Cup
Around about the turn of the year there was a flurry of mails about Informix technology being embedded into the World Cup balls for tracking purposes. David Williams wrote for example: "And the big Euro 2006 (or whatever soccer event). IBM will have chips in the ball and players boots and realtime tracking all via an IDS database. Where is the publicity that IBM beat (who?) to this? That was mentioned at the UK Usergroup meeting but we were not asked by Michelle to keep quiet about it!" Did this in fact ever happen? I've read absolutely nothing about it since. Incidentally, on the front page of today's Computing ""At the Wimbledon Tennis Championships (sic) IT partner IBM is operating real-time wireless badge scanning ... The (database) being checked against - IBM's DB2 - holds personal data and photographic records ..." (Wayne Rooney's been embedding his studs in balls, of course, but that's a different matter ...) -- Neil Truby t:01932 724027 Director m:07798 811708 Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com
Neil Truby said: > (Wayne Rooney's been embedding his studs in balls, of course, but that's a > different matter ...) Balls in tarts, surely? -- Bye now, Obnoxio "... no bill is required as no value was provided." -- Christine Normile
Neil, IDS 10 on Linux (Using HDR, CDR, etc) is used by the company called Impire AG. (www.impire.de) to provide statistical data about all the soccer games during the Soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany.. This data is used for example in the TV to provide information about ball possession etc. So when you watch soccer in TV then you will see data coming from IDS.... They did a presentation just recently in the German Infobahn (Munich and Berlin) The "chip in the ball" is not yet approved by the FIFA ! This is the reason why the data has to be collected manually by "observation" They also provide online soccer web applications for example: http://www.stern.de/sport-motor/wm2006/ergebnisse/562600.html bye Sandor IBM Informix Development Munich
Thanks. Given the press release on computing about DB2 and Wimbledon, might we not haved hoped for some similar IBM exposure on the World Cup, which is, let's face it, a much bigger event even than Wimbledon? -- Neil Truby t:01932 724027 Director m:07798 811708 Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com "Sandor Szabo" <sandor.szabo@de.ibm.com> wrote in message news:mailman.7.1152023983.873.informix-list@iiug.org... > Neil, > IDS 10 on Linux (Using HDR, CDR, etc) is used by the company called Impire > AG. (www.impire.de) > to provide statistical data about all the soccer games during the Soccer > World Cup 2006 in Germany.. > This data is used for example in the TV to provide information about ball > possession etc. So when you watch soccer in TV then you will see data > coming from IDS.... > They did a presentation just recently in the German Infobahn (Munich and > Berlin) > > The "chip in the ball" is not yet approved by the FIFA ! > This is the reason why the data has to be collected manually by > "observation" > They also provide online soccer web applications > for example: > > http://www.stern.de/sport-motor/wm2006/ergebnisse/562600.html > > bye > Sandor > > > IBM Informix Development Munich >
IBM is not an official sponsor of the FIFA world cup. IBM is a sponsor of Wimbledon I suspect their are regulations about how much announcement can be made without IBM having to pay FIFA huge amounts of money to link their name to the World Cup