Sports equipment and/or areas of play are provided, comprising a sports equipment or area of play and a sensor.

An Internet of Thing (IoT) device includes a body with a processor, a camera and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor.

A system for creating and viewing indexed video snippets of a series of shots toward a goal comprising at least one sensor directly connected to a microprocessor, the microprocessor configured to trigger responsive to a ball-shooting detection of at least one of the series of shots toward the goal; electronic times that represent the accurate timing of a triggering event related to the ball-shooting detection; one or more video recordings captured by at least one recording source; wherein the electronic times are utilized to associate portions of the one or more video recordings with corresponding shots toward the goal; the associated portions are stored as separate video snippets; and the video snippets are indexed by the corresponding shots toward the goal.

There is provided a limb exercise device comprising: a force sensor configured to determine a weight applied to the device; a sliding component configured to facilitate the sliding movement of the device along a separate surface, wherein the separate surface is a surface that is separate to the device, wherein the sliding component comprises a part of an external housing of the device; a device movement sensor configured to determine a movement of the device on the separate surface; a limb position sensor configured to determine a position, in at least one dimension, of a limb of a user positioned above or adjacent to the device; and an output device configured to output an indication in dependence on a signal from at least one of: the force sensor, the device movement sensor and the limb position sensor.

A system, method, and wireless earpieces for implementing a virtual assistant. A request is received from a user to be implemented by wireless earpieces. A virtual assistant is executed on the wireless earpieces. An action is implemented to fulfill the request utilizing the virtual assistant. The wireless earpieces may be a set of wireless earpieces and the virtual assistant may be implemented independently by the wireless earpieces.

A system for creating and viewing indexed video snippets of a series of shots toward a goal comprising at least one sensor directly connected to a microprocessor, the microprocessor configured to trigger responsive to a ball-shooting detection of at least one of the series of shots toward the goal; electronic times that represent the accurate timing of a triggering event related to the ball-shooting detection; one or more video recordings captured by at least one recording source; wherein the electronic times are utilized to associate portions of the one or more video recordings with corresponding shots toward the goal; the associated portions are stored as separate video snippets; and the video snippets are indexed by the corresponding shots toward the goal.

A basketball performance monitoring system sensor including at least one sensor proximate a basketball goal having a backboard, a rim coupled to the backboard, and a net having strings coupled to the rim; the at least one sensor configured to determine shot information, the shot information comprising both an impact of a basketball with at least one of the backboard and the rim, and a shot passing through the rim; a local microprocessor coupled to the at least one sensor; a housing containing both the at least one sensor and the local microprocessor; the housing includes geometric features to reduce the likelihood of tangling housing in the net; and the housing having a first end and a second end opposite the first end; wherein the first end of the housing extends outside the net; wherein the second end of housing includes an arm extending inside the net.

Articles of sports equipment, such as striking implements (e.g., sticks) and wearable articles (e.g., skates, helmets) for playing hockey or other activities, in which at least one of the characteristics (e.g., stiffness) of the articles of sports equipment is adaptable and can be altered during use of the sports equipment, such as by comprising an alterable component coupled to a controller, by comprising an alterable component that is autonomously alterable, and/or by an alterable component that can be altered in response to a command of a remote device.

The present disclosure provides a method and system for identifying one of a ball impact and a custom tap on a sports equipment. The method encompasses receiving in real time, at a stump box [102] from one or more accelerometer sensors [202] placed in at least one smart sticker [102], at least one acceleration data associated with a sports equipment [106], The method thereafter leads to identifying, by the stump box [102], a correlation value associated with an identified at least one acceleration pattern based on at least one preconfigured acceleration pattern. Thereafter, one of a positive indication and a negative indication based on a comparison of the at least one correlation value with a correlation threshold value is generated at the stump box [102] and one of the ball impact and the custom tap is then identified based on the positive indication and the negative indication, respectively.

A system for sensing true positive impacts may include a sensing device configured for secured coupling to a user. The sensing device may include a sensor configured for sensing accelerations of an impact and for generating a signal based on the impact. The sensing device may also include a control sensor for sensing when the sensing device is in position for sensing. The sensing device may also include a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon for receiving and capturing the signal from the sensor, and comparing first and second signals from the control sensor to determine if the signal is a true positive signal. The system may also include a processor for processing the instructions to capture the signal, perform the comparing, and identify the signal as a true positive signal. Method of sensing true positive impacts and of workload monitoring are also provided.