Competitive Analysis

True Tennis Live is an interactive tennis court where the court speaks to you! It is able to tell you if the ball you hit stays in or goes out using speakers around the court. This technology is needed on an average tennis player's level because calls are always debated and people are sometimes not loyal to their call.

There are many ideas out there in other sports that acquire similar technology for the same purpose:

          The first example includes soccer and the implementation of goal-line technology to decide what is a goal or not because it sometimes becomes unclear for the official. FIFA plans on putting a chip in the ball and will use a magnetic field to detect when it crosses the goal line. This is different than my idea because I do not use magnets to determine whether or not the ball crosses the line. It however is similar because at first I also want to put a chip in the ball to determine where it is on the court.

          It is obvious that balls become lost the most in the sport of golf. A company called RadarGolf incorporates technology into their golf balls. They do this by installing an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip into the ball and whenever a ball goes either out of sight of the player there is no fear. All the searcher has to do is take out a RadarGolf handheld device and point it into any direction which will allow it to beep when it crosses over where your ball is. It will keep beeping until you reach the ball. This idea actually gave me the thought that I could possibly use an RFID chip in my tennis ball and lasers will be set up on the lines of the court and when the ball passes the laser it will beep telling the player the ball is out.

         There is many other competition within the same ideas in sports for tracking where the balls are. This has always been a misconception because of human error and that is why we need machines to help us solve these problems. I am glad I did this competitive analysis because it opened my eyes to see who else is out in the industry and what types of technologies they are using.