Chip ball

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The chip ball is a soccer ball developed by Adidas , the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen and the company Cairos Technologies AG with an integrated ASIC chip and an integrated transmitter for the transmission of data.

technology

The chip is suspended in the middle of the ball and sends radio signals to a receiver on the referee's wrist in less than a second when the goal line is crossed .

The first tests took place in the stadium in Nuremberg, where twelve antennas in light masts and on the edge of the field in the arena took over the data transmission . The antennas were connected via fiber optic cables to a Linux-based server that evaluated the data.

history

At the U-17 World Cup in Peru in 2005 , the ball was tested for the first time in a tournament, but was not used for the referee's decision. FIFA refused to use the technology for years. Only after the goal of England's national team in the round of 16 of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 against Germany on June 27, 2010, which was described as “revenge for Wembley ” and was not given by the referee , a new discussion began at FIFA about the use of technical aids. In July 2012, FIFA finally approved the introduction of goal-line technology , i.e. the use of electronic aids to determine goals, but this “chip-ball” solution could not prevail and so the choice was made between the Hawk-Eye and the systems GoalRef .

Individual evidence

  1. Gooor! Or not? The chip in the ball knows ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Fifa refuses to play high-tech football
  3. Blatter is considering the introduction of technical aids
  4. Fifa allows technical assistance for referees. In: sueddeutsche.de. July 6, 2012, accessed August 23, 2018 .

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