SailGP: The Sport of Sailing Is Ready for Take-Off with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Blog: Oracle BPM
By Wendy Leslie, Global Cloud Customer Success at Oracle
SailGP is a new global sports league redefining the sport of sailing. Designed to excite and engage sailing racers and fans in ways not seen before, SailGP uses cutting-edge technology to put fans at the center of the sport.
Pitting rival nations against each other, sailing events take place each year in five of the world’s most iconic harbors, culminating in a $1 million winner-take-all race between the top two teams.
Technology lies at the heart of SailGP. As races are run, more than a thousand onboard sensors as well as multiple cameras and microphones—transmit real-time data over Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to racers, event announcers, umpires, and fans. Announcers use the data and multimedia feeds to add a colorful new dimension to their commentary, wowing fans with on-boat, live-action reports, and insights.
Each boat and crew member is monitored in real-time with 1,200 data points of sensor data being streamed during each race back to the SailGP base onshore. Approximately 20 MB of information-rich data is streamed from each boat during a race and stored locally before being streamed by Oracle GoldenGate technology into the Cloud for further analysis and distribution around the globe. The data is available for everyone to access from Oracle’s public cloud. SailGP.com is hosted using Oracle Cloud and all DNS requests are resolved using Oracle Dyn.
“The ability to go sailing is always going to be there, and to have the natural tendencies of each sailor to think ‘Oh, this feels good, and this is fast.’ I think that’s always going to be part of sailing. As we get better and better and the technology improves, sailing is going to become more about numbers and how the boats are performing.”
–Hans Henken, Grinder, Team USA
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