IPL 2020 news: Mumbai Indians launch ‘smart ring’ to combat coronavirus

Dixit Bhargav | 05/09/2020
IPL 2020 news: Mumbai Indians launch 'smart ring' to combat coronavirus

Mumbai Indians launch ‘smart ring’: The defending champions have come up with an NBA-style equipment to fight coronavirus.

Playing a tournament such as the Indian Premier League amidst the COVID-19 pandemic involves plentiful challenges – maintaining optimum health of all players involved being the primary one.

It is for the same reason that IPL 2020 is being played inside a bio-secure bubble. In addition to all players not allowed to breach bio-bubble restrictions, BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has handed teams a bluetooth-enabled contact tracing device and asked them to fill in a daily fitness form through a Health App.

Indian Premier League defending champions Mumbai Indians have gone a step ahead by implementing NBA-style “smart ring” to collect all health-related data of their players.

Mumbai Indians launch ‘smart ring’ to combat coronavirus

The development was made public by a source close to the franchise during an interaction with ANI. The source revealed how the ring will help in spotting asymptomatic signals in advance and warn the franchise regarding the same.

“The ring picks up a person’s vital data — heart rate, heart rate variation, respiratory rate and body temperature among other details — and then flags any irregular trend in advance so that asymptomatic signals can be spotted at the earliest and dealt with.

“The ring monitors the person’s pulse, movements and temperature to present a complete picture so that helps in daily analysis. NBA [National Basketball Association] has made use of the similar ring health device,” the source said.

Under captain Rohit Sharma, Mumbai have lifted four IPL titles – most by any team. Having landed in UAE with a formidable squad, MI would be looking to register yet another successful season in the biggest T20 league around the world.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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