The Tour de France is one of the most prestigious cycling races in the world, attracting millions of spectators each year. This year, the viewing experience is getting a major upgrade by leveraging the latest technology including universes, edge calculationAnd Creative AI.
NTT, the information technology and services company, has been a partner of the Tour de France for the past nine years. This year, it is raising the bar by creating “the world’s largest connected stadium” and incorporating ChatGPT.
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The “Connected Stadium” establishes a digital replica of the race that will use real-time data to digitally replicate all aspects of the race, allowing the Tour de France to become a Events are fully digitized.
The digital twin will be used to help the event organizer, Amaury Sports Foundation, better understand what is going on at the event, helping to ensure smooth operations.
NTT will collect data about the bike using geolocation and small sensors mounted under the saddle of each bike.
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Using this technology, NTT will receive a continuous stream of latitude, longitude, speed and other data from those sensors. This data will be transmitted over a radio network to the racing vehicles before the microwave signal will carry the data to the end of the race. There, an edge computing device will run a “packaged version” of the real-time analytics platform, according to liberate, release, free.
Additionally, ChatGPT will be integrated into NTT’s AI-driven Digital People solution to provide detailed, relevant race information to fans.
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According to the release, the integration, called Marianne, will use “machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, and conversational AI” to provide fans with comprehensive information about the conversation. race.
All of these advances will also apply to the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the women’s head-to-head race that opened last year.
