Its time for the winter games. We are immersed in tech from the new ways we will watch the games to the self serving robots that will be present around the Olympic campus, Scio is excited to see what will come. NPR’s Elsie Hu was onsite in Pyeongchang, and was blown away by the tablet faced mobile robots, but that was just an intro. The fastest broadband in the world at 28.6 Mbps compared to UK’s 16.9Mbps. Connectivity will be boosted at Pyeongchang by the introduction of 5G courtesy of Intel, delivering download speeds of 100Mbps. Offering transcendent live streaming and live virtual reality games to visitors.
In November the South Korean government announced the completion of a £2.7bn Korea Train Express (KTX) line from Seoul to Pyeongchang. Built by Hyundai, the trains will travel at 300kph and the journey will take 69 minutes rather than three hours by road
Suits peppered with sensors to feed back live body position data to their coaches. Smartphone software will then analyze their racing posture and suggest improvements that the coaches can relay via predefined buzz signals to a band on the athlete’s wrist – for example “crouch deeper”, a lower crouch being critical in skating to deliver a higher speed. The suit will only be deployed in training; using it in a race would constitute digital doping. Dainese airbags will be worn by large numbers of competitors at Pyeongchang. The vests feature seven sensors that can detect when the racer is losing control and about to crash, prompting them to inflate.
