By BERNIE WILSONApril 15, 2021 GMT
The second season of the SailGP global league will be awash in data that will benefit sailors as well as TV viewers, thanks to its association with tech billionaire Larry Ellison, the cofounder of Oracle Corp.
Starting with the opener of the pandemic-delayed season April 24-25 in Bermuda, SailGP will use Oracle Stream Analytics to provide real-time race metrics as foiling, wing-sailed catamarans representing eight countries skim above the waves at close to freeway speeds.
Each of the 50-foot catamarans will send 30,000 data points per second to the Oracle Cloud. Oracle Stream Analytics will blend and transform disparate data into one stream, down from the 10 streams SailGP shared in its first season in 2019. That will allow teams to customize their data dashboards with relevant tactical information, including open-source data from rival teams, and determine in-race strategies in an instant.
SailGP and Oracle have expanded their data analytics platform for the competition’s second season.
Oracle Stream Analytics will be used in the upcoming campaign to bring real-time metrics to viewers and competing teams. The platform uses correlation patterns, data enrichment and machine learning to make autonomous decisions based on the 30,000 data points an F50 catamaran sends every second of a race.
It then blends and transforms this disparate data into one stream, down from the 10 streams SailGP shared in its first season. Viewers can then take it in through second screen experiences on the SailGP app or SailGP.com.
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