SailGP’s F50 catamarans are like the biggest and flashest IoT devices on the planet; they capture video and telemetry data which is transmitted on a portable private 5G system from Ericsson at a dozen race stops around the world, and delivered every time to a central cloud operated by Oracle in London – where it is processed and returned in real time, to race teams, operations teams, broadcast teams, and fans. The firm’s CTO explains…

In sum – what to know:

Top-level sailing tech – SailGP’s F50s feature a bounty of IoT sensors and cameras, producing 360,000 data points per second for race-day analysis

Cloud and 5G backbone – Oracle’s cloud handles all video and telemetry data in London; Ericsson’s private 5G provides live boat-to-shore comms.

Sustainable broadcasting – Remote broadc

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