23/1/2020
PUNE: Global
Indian International School, headquartered in Singapore, today launched the
first-of-its-kind sports performance enhancing technology – SPEDAS in India at
its SMART Campus in Balewadi, Pune.
Football legend and Indian captain Sunil Chhetri launched the
Sports Performance Enhancing Data Analytics System (SPEDAS) – a concept which
was first introduced in its SMART Campus in Singapore in 2018. The
International School aims at introducing SPEDAS across all its Smart Campuses
in India – starting with Balewadi and Hadapsar campuses in Pune.
Present on the occasion to launch the SPEDAS technology in
India, Captain of Indian Football team, Sunil Chhetri said, “Football
is a rapidly growing sport in India. In line with the Khelo India programme,
this is the perfect time for Global Indian International School (GIIS Pune
Hadapsar and Balewadi campuses) to bring in this cutting-edge football data
analytics across its schools in India. This will go on to create and nurture
the next generation football players from schools. It is the first school in
India and South East Asia to introduce such a high-end technology, which I
believe would help in fulfilling the aspirations of thousands of football
players who can immensely benefit from this SMART football technology. I would
urge all students who aspire to take up the sport professionally, to make the
most of this facility.”
Commenting on the launch of SPEDAS,
Arjun Temurnikar, Associate Director (Technology), Global Schools Foundation said: “SPEDAS is part of our School of the Future initiative which allows students to develop 21st century skills. It is a technology which brings football data analytics to the coaches and students to help enhance player performances and better team coordination.”
“SPEDAS uses advanced sensors, which are placed on the field,
on the players and in the football itself, which maps the movement of each
component in the field in real time. The player’s moves and techniques are
recorded statistically and can later be analysed by the coach to help improve
their performance in subsequent games.”
“This advanced system tracks each player with very high
accuracy and we can see the player move on field in relation to the ball and
the other teams in real time. Providing crucial data to improve on-field game
has been brought into schools for the first time by GIIS in the age group
of 3-18 year old students. Our aim is to offer the best developmental tool
and opportunities to transform development of football in India and build
future national and international players.”
Such a technique will not only help improve the game for the
players, it will give them a solid platform to understand the game better and
excel at the sport right from school level. This first-of-its-kind initiative
is also used by GIIS in other sports like basketball in its SMART Campus at
Singapore.
Not only do the SMART Campuses leverage proprietary data
analytics software to improve learning and teaching across the school, they
will also provide Sports scholarship to deserving students. Using its
global network of schools to its advantage, GIIS encourages the use of its
smart sports technology through its student exchange programmes for students
across the globe and grant scholarships in sports to deserving students.
Speaking on the occasion, GIIS Deputy Chief Operating
Officer Rajeev Katyal said: “GIIS believes in giving each deserving
student a chance at excelling in the field of their choice. We are offering
over 200 GIIS Global Sports Scholarship, to give deserving soccer players to be
part of GIIS and benefit from the SPEDAS SMART Football program.”
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