Here’s what UAE Team Emirates-XRG is doing.
Jeroen Swart, "I think the most interesting one at the moment is one that gets talked about a lot but I don’t think is necessarily being used at the moment in a really fundamentally game-changing way other than maybe with us and a handful of teams, if that. And that is data integration.
We’ve spent the last five years very focused on it. That means taking all the disparate sources of data we get data from our group devices and these are multiple: heart rate variability, resting heart rate, sleep metrics, power meters on the bikes, the CORE sensor which measure the rider’s temperature, self-reported wellness questionnaires, subjective comments from our coaches that are uploaded onto our data integration platform on a weekly basis. If the rider is not healthy, we get comments from the medical team. This rider has a niggle in his hamstring, This rider has a slight cough, otherwise feeling well and so on, those kinds of comments.
We have developed a very, very comprehensive data integration platform with our team in [Al platform] Analog and we’ve now utilised the AI capability of that to generate the most in-depth integrated reports on a monthly basis. We literally create a 20-plus page report which describes all the facets of a rider’s training, performance, wellness, et cetera, in a single cohesive report which has a narrative as well.
What the AI is able to do so much better than a human being is that it’s able to take all these different data sources and look at them and the temporal relationship between them.
That includes, for instance, if a rider goes to the laboratory and has his routine blood tests, we upload all of the blood results as well. Everything is integrated into a single cohesive narrative where we can really see how all these different variables, what they’re saying and how they’re saying the same thing.
So if there’s a combined signal that comes from multiple different sources, it gives us that absolute clarity about which direction to go in and amazingly, the AI is even giving very concrete objectives, too."
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