Sector Wellness
Sport
Eurecat provides the knowledge and innovative technologies needed to work with businesses in the sports sector value chain
Eurecat develops innovative solutions and new products and services with sports equipment and product manufacturers and sports event planners from the idea to its industrialisation.
Solutions for transforming sport
1
Promoting doing sport
- Designing and developing wearables
- Digital gamification solutions
- Application of VR and AR technologies
- Metaverse
- AI applied to sports tourism
- Sustainability and environmentally friendly sport
- Technologies applied to fan engagement before, during and after sporting events
- New proposals as add-ons to eSports
2
Enhancing experience and adherence
- Self-management tools for athletes
- Tools for collaboration between coaches and other professionals with athletes
- Planning and monitoring training plans and doing sport
- Virtual training
- AI applied to social media and sports communities
- Technologies for exergaming environments
3
Improved sports performance
- Monitoring training and recovery in sports activity and eSports
- Harnessing statistical techniques, especially AI and ML, for preventing and recovering from injuries Predictive and prescriptive models
- Embedding VR and AR solutions in custom training
- Personalised nutrition with a recommender for athletes and/or teams
4
Adaptation to new business models
- Sports product ecodesign
- Circular economy and recycling technical materials
- Carbon footprint at sporting events
- Virtual trophies for sports competition
- Smart sports devices
- NFTs for traceability of sports products and services
- Industry 4.0 applied to the sports sector
Services
Sports equipment and services companies
- Designing and developing new sports products
- Designing and developing wearables for athletes
- Validating new materials for manufacturing sports products
- New functional textiles
- Computer vision applied to doing sport
- Technologies applied to biomechanical analysis
- Digital tools to support performance and rehabilitation
- Personalised nutrition for high performance athletes or for sports practitioners in general
- Functional foods and food additives
Sports facilities
- Facility sustainability and energy efficiency
- Comprehensive facility upgrading projects
- Data analytics and AI to enhance services and customer loyalty
- Recommender systems for fitness and sports centre service delivery
- Computer vision applied to doing sport
- Technologies applied to biomechanical analysis
- Personalised nutrition for high performance athletes or for sports practitioners in general
- Indoor sport: user and equipment positioning/traceability
- Developing apps and platforms for interaction between athletes and professionals
Sports event planners
- Event sustainability and efficiency
- Comprehensive projects for upgrading events and related facilities
- Data analytics to enhance services and participant loyalty
- Recommender systems for service delivery by planners
- Platforms and applied AI for event management
Cross-cutting services
Innovation technology consulting and sector training
- Technology watch, sector trends “radar” and competitive intelligence
- Innovation strategy: Lean management, Industry 4.0 Roadmaps, Circular Economy Roadmap
- Intellectual/industrial property studies
- Technological due diligence
- Bespoke specialised training: Industry 4.0, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, circular economy, robotics and more
- Entrepreneurship training programmes
Product development
- Sports product design
- Conceptualisation and proofs-of-concept (Inspira Lab service)
- Prototyping
- Short runs and field validation
- Support for industrialising
- Certification support
- Adjustment to innovation
Industry 4.0, data and Artificial Intelligence
- Smart platforms for controlling sensors and data
- Data architecture: information system cross-correlation and analytics for decision making
- Determination of complex parameters using virtual sensors (soft sensing)
- Integration and communication of information with management systems
Cybersecurity
- Secure information exchange using digital smart contracts and blockchain
- Solutions for the digital security of equipment and facilities
- Solutions for the security of digital sports products
- Control system for cyber-physical threats in critical infrastructures
Contact
Francesc Massana
Head of Sport Business Development
- Tel. +34 689 62 61 75
- francesc.massana[at]eurecat.org
Facilities
Outstanging projects
FATIGA2
Fatigue and effort monitoring device for sportsmen and sportswomen
Design and improvement of a wearable device made of sustainable materials capable of monitoring fatigue and effort in athletes to optimise their performance and prevent injuries and health-related incidents.
Sitka
A helmet designed for roller hockey
Designed specifically for roller hockey at the request of the Catalan Roller Skating Federation and manufactured by NZI, the Stika helmet is designed to shield the most sensitive part of the players and prevent serious head and face injuries.
FlickHockey
Recycling plastic waste to manufacture sportswear
New line of high-performance sportswear made from plastic waste recovered from the seabed and locally produced which has cut its carbon footprint by 40 percent.
Blovize
NFTs sports trophy platform
Technology platform drawing on emerging technologies such as blockchain to create, save, share and collect sports digital trophies based on NFTs for both teams and individuals.
Multimèdia / Testimonials
News of the Sports sector
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Fusioncat: nuclear fusion in Catalonia
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From innovative idea to market: standards help pay the way
“By including standardization in research projects from the beginning, we are assuring compliance with existing standards. Then we get in [...]
1D-NEON project partners review the work done during the 1st year
Barcelona, 11 April 2017.- Italy will host today and tomorrow the European partners of the project 1D Nanofibre Electro-Optic Networks (1D-NEON) [...]
Drones to inspect the sewers of Barcelona in 2018
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Eurecat presents a mobile assistant to promote healthy habits for young people
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2017 Barcelona, 20 February 2017 – The Eurecat technology centre will be showing at the Mobile World Congress [...]
