Imagine every member of the Florida Gators football team wearing a wireless sensor during practices and games that uses GPS, accelerometers and other technologies to gather over 1,000 data points per second on location, speed and workload. Now imagine that for the basketball team, the volleyball team, the soccer team and UF’s other intercollegiate sports teams.

“Just one athlete wearing one kind of tracking device can generate a billion data points in a single season,” says Jennifer Nichols, an associate professor of biomedical engineering. “Multiply that by the 500 athletes across all of UF’s intercollegiate sports times multiple seasons and multiple data sources and the numbers get real big real fast.”

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