Football GPS sensors: are they really suitable for football?

Today, all athletes have their preferred tools to measure their performance: runners use GPS watches such as Garmin, cyclists have connected computers... But these measurement tools adapt very poorly to practice. football, and GPS trackers are not spared.

Have you ever tried using a GPS to play a soccer match? So you could see that the latter has difficulty understanding your movements, and is extremely imprecise when it comes to calculating your distance traveled. Indeed, the accuracy of a GPS is for the best between 5 and 10 meters, and Garmin can, for example, only guarantee an accuracy of 15 m maximum. However, when you play a match, many of your runs only take place over a few meters and are therefore simply not detected by the GPS sensors. Without forgetting that in football, your races are also subject to constant and sudden changes of direction which cannot be understood by GPS, which simply do not detect any movement in these cases.

With the Footbar sensor, you free yourself from all these difficulties : the accelerometer captures the smallest movement of your leg and converts it into data, it is thus able to identify each support and therefore calculate the distance traveled, whatever it is. your move! With our Artificial Intelligence that we have been training constantly for 7 years, we provide you with great precision with your maximum sprint speed, the highlights of your match and the distribution as well as the exact time of low, medium and high intensity races that you have done. And with the Meteor, you don't compromise! Our sensor is also perfectly suited to running and detects your jogging sessions to give you your speed and rhythm for each km of running.

The second limitation of GPS trackers lies in the relevance of the data that they are capable of calculating. Okay, knowing your distance covered during a match can be interesting, but football goes beyond physical data. What is really useful is to know how many balls we have touched, our number of passes, shots, our hitting power... And in this area, Footbar offers you the most efficient tool on the market, capable of analyzing from the movements of your leg all the data you need to analyze your matches. With the Footbar application, you can know your playing style and progress in each match, in each training session to become the best!