GenGee Sports is dedicated to integrating sports with science and technology. It’s not necessarily a new or groundbreaking mission, though the way the company is approaching it (from a team perspective) is a bit different.
“We are motivated to understand the dynamics of team sports and break them down into comprehensible state-of-the-art applications to improve every aspect of training sessions and managerial tasks related to sports,” reads the GenGee website.
GenGee’s primary application is the Insait K1 Performance Analysis system. It tracks and captures almost every piece of data on a soccer pitch that could be imagined: ball possession rate, touches, passes, pass completion, on-target shots and dribbling speed are just a couple data points.
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The system uses three trackers to gather data during practice or matches. First, there’s the master anchor that is placed at a corner of the pitch to analyze player motion. The second and third devices are a tracker around each player’s bicep and a chip embedded in a football that is in compliance with FIFA standards.
With all three working in unison, Insait K1 quickly becomes a coach’s dream. Receive access to heat-maps of player positioning and see which of your players are working hardest and smartest based off distance covered and percentage of successful passes.
You can also follow action in real-time via a tablet. This will show players on each team and might help coaches make more effective in-game changes.
GenGee might not be the first to develop a “smart” system, but it’s one of the first to make such a thing accessible to those at the amateur level for a reasonable price.