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ATHENA The whole session.

Player tracking that goes where the game goes.

Athena tracks position indoors and out, reports the speed and load numbers staff already work from, and adds what each leg is doing, which a unit worn on the torso has no way to measure.

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Four scenarios, one training session

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Main training · Tuesday Squad session · 12 players
38:12
12 of 12 tracked Link · Wi-Fi HaLow Position · 3 access points

Outdoor pitch · 100 × 64 m Selected, ranging from AP1–3 Tracked, vector = speed Lost

Squad

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Player Covered m HSR m Top km/h Acc Dec Load Kick km/h CoD L / R
— — Athena · calf sleeve

Session

—mDistance covered
—mCovered at high speed
—km/hTop speed
—Session load
—Walk —Jog —Run —High speed —Sprint
Speed · last 30 s · —

From the leg

—km/hFastest kick
—Changes of direction
—%Speed kept through the cut
—gPeak leg acceleration
Left leg —— Right leg

Share of leg load, this session.

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The session is simulated: modelled, not recorded. What is real is which numbers Athena reports, where they come from, and what changes under a roof. See where it stands.

What performance staff actually complain about

Indoor sessions

Satellite positioning needs a clear view of the sky, so the moment a squad moves under a roof the numbers thin out or stop altogether.

Getting the data out

Analysts describe sessions that need clipping by hand and exports that fail often enough to be worth running twice. A fair part of the morning goes before anyone looks at a chart.

The garment

The unit sits between the shoulder blades in something that has to be tight to stay put. Players tolerate it; few of them ask for it.

Why the calf is a better place to measure from

Position without satellites

Three access points around the venue are enough to fix every player on the field, and because none of it depends on satellites a roof makes no difference. The link runs on Wi-Fi HaLow, which was designed for range.

The leg, not the torso

From the calf you can measure the kick, the plant and the push-off, and see how the work is split between the two legs. None of that is visible from a sensor sitting between the shoulder blades.

The Ares compression sleeve, showing the medial zip, the moulded electrode patches and the hooded pocket that carries the electronics module The electronics module, a slim sealed unit carrying the battery and the sensors

Wearing it

It is compression gear of the kind athletes already train in, with the module tucked behind the calf and out of the way.

Fit

Each sleeve is built from a scan of that athlete, so it sits in the same place every session and the numbers stay comparable week to week.

One garment, two jobs

Athena is the session view of the sleeve. Ares is the medical one, and it reads the same sensors.

After the whistle

Already split into drills

Athena knows when the session started, when the drill changed and when a player walked off, so nobody has to find those edges by hand.

Getting it out

Flat files, a stable interface for analysts, or a direct feed into whichever athlete management system the club already runs.

Knowing when to doubt it

A dropped link or a flat battery is marked as exactly that, rather than quietly leaving a number that stopped updating.

What the medical staff get

The same sessions give Ares motion and muscle at the leg under real load, which is the record injury work is built on.

See Ares

The point is to spend the morning on questions rather than on cleaning.

Where it stands

Working

Reading the leg

Within 3% of a lab-grade research sensor on the same leg. Every speed, load and leg number comes from that reading.

In build

Position over Wi-Fi HaLow

The radio link is built. The access points are being designed. First positions from a single venue, indoors and out.

In build

The sleeve

Engineered through to the materials. Bonding sensors into fabric that survives a season is what is being tested now.

Next

First sessions

Squad sessions with key Australian sports organisations, beside the system the club already runs.

Athena beside a GPS vest

 AthenaGPS vest systems
WornCalf, inside compression gear.Between the shoulder blades, in a fitted vest.
Position outdoorsIn build
Three access points, Wi-Fi HaLow link.		Satellite, with a receiver in range.
Position indoorsIn build
Same three access points.		Needs a separate indoor system installed.
Distance, speed bands, accelerations, loadWorking
Per player, live and after.		Per player, live and after.
Kick speed, change of direction, left–right balanceWorking
Measured at the leg.		Not measured.
Muscle activityIn build
Read at the calf.		Not measured.
Data at the final whistleNext
Session-ready. Nothing to clip.		Downloaded, trimmed and cleaned by staff.
Injury preventionThrough Ares, from the same sleeve.Load-based flags.

“GPS vest systems” is the category as staff described it, not any one vendor’s claims.

See a session on your own ground

We will bring it to a training session and run it alongside whatever you use now, so your staff can compare the two on the same afternoon.

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