Shining with a 'technological style' both inside and outside the Paris Olympic venues
2024-08-08
The 2024 Paris Olympics are in full swing, and the shining "technological style" on and off the field has become a major highlight of this year's Olympics. The widespread application of innovative technologies, from artificial intelligence (AI) to private 5G networks, from digital twins to cloud broadcasting, has not only improved the efficiency of organizing and operating sports events, changed the way sports are broadcasted, but also provided viewers with a more personalized and immersive experience. The widespread application of artificial intelligence and computer vision technology in the Paris Olympics not only enables referees and spectators to closely track athletes' performance, but also provides important guarantees and support for all parties involved in the event. The water sports center is equipped with high-tech cameras that can use artificial intelligence to analyze athletes' swimming frequency and coverage distance in real time; The information recorded by cameras around the football stadium and the chips implanted in the football provide support for referee decision-making; As the official timer provider for the Olympic Games, Swiss company Omega has introduced the latest technology on the Olympic stage, including advanced electronic starting guns, starting blocks with built-in sensors, quantum timers, and photoelectric tube technology, all of which have been showcased in Paris. The International Olympic Committee has developed an artificial intelligence chatbot called AthleteGPT for athletes. This chatbot is based on a large language model developed by the French artificial intelligence company Mistral, and can be accessed through the Athlete365 mobile application. It can quickly browse thousands of information pages and answer questions 24/7. The International Olympic Committee has also launched an artificial intelligence system to protect athletes from online abuse, using AI to monitor hundreds of thousands of social media accounts and tag abusive information for relevant platforms to intervene. Outside the Paris Olympic venue, artificial intelligence is also being used by the International Olympic Committee to discover sports talents. The International Olympic Committee and Intel Corporation are jointly developing customized technologies in related fields, aimed at helping national and regional Olympic committees innovate sports talent identification and investment training methods. At present, the technology has completed corresponding tests in Senegal. By leveraging technological innovation, the management efficiency of the Paris Olympics has been simplified and the sustainability of operations has been effectively improved. In the field of security, the Olympic monitoring system relies on artificial intelligence cameras to automatically mark potential security threats. If a risk is detected, the system immediately sends a prompt to the staff, who then take corresponding measures. The Paris Organizing Committee for the 2024 Olympic Games has established a data-driven "digital twin" for all competition venues, which not only helps with venue design and construction, but also optimizes venue management, better guides audiences, and ensures the smooth progress of events. The Chief Information Technology Officer of the International Olympic Committee, Irario Kolna, stated that using digital twin technology to analyze venue conditions can help predict where power needs to be allocated and where cameras need to be placed. This Olympic Games adopts an intelligent energy management system, which optimizes energy use through big data analysis and artificial intelligence, reduces carbon footprint, and ensures efficient and environmentally friendly operation of Olympic venues. According to the official website of the Paris Olympics, the goal of this Olympics is to reduce carbon footprint by 50% compared to the average emissions of the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics. The concept of Green Olympics is applied both inside and outside the venues. For example, solar panels have been installed in the water sports center and Olympic Village; The American company Enix uses the heat generated by nearby data center infrastructure to heat the swimming pool at the water sports center. Enhancing the audience experience in Paris, the Olympic experience of the audience is changed by innovative technology. At the opening ceremony held on the Seine River, French telecommunications company Orange provided a private 5G network solution for the entry boats of various sports teams to share onboard footage. Compared to existing public networks, private 5G can provide dedicated bandwidth with less latency, which is crucial for transmitting high-definition videos from mobile ships. This technology will also be used for sailing competitions at this Olympic Games. Exciting video clips of Olympic events, which used to require manual tagging and editing, can now be automatically captured through artificial intelligence. Thanks to Intel's computer vision artificial intelligence platform "Getty", viewers can enjoy personalized highlights of exciting events. Artificial intelligence can accurately select the content that viewers want to watch and immediately distribute it to the corresponding viewers, improving the efficiency of video production and editing. In the past, Olympic live broadcast signals often relied on satellite transmission, with expensive facilities and the need to deploy hardware in advance. At this Olympic Games, over two-thirds of the live broadcast signals will be distributed globally based on Alibaba Cloud, surpassing traditional satellite signal transmission for the first time and becoming the main distribution method for Olympic live broadcast signals. This Olympic Games also adopted a new broadcasting technology enhanced by Alibaba Cloud AI - the multi camera playback system, which allows viewers to see the athletes' movements in slow motion from multiple angles, providing an immersive experience. (New Society)
Edit:Xiong Dafei Responsible editor:Li Xiang
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