{"id":216719,"date":"2022-12-01T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216719"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:43:39","slug":"explained-how-fifa-is-using-saot-for-offside-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-how-fifa-is-using-saot-for-offside-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained | How FIFA is using SAOT for offside decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cExplained | How FIFA is using SAOT for offside decisions\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 1st December 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federation Internationale de Football Association(FIFA) is using Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT) for offside decisions in the ongoing football world cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Semi-Automated Offside Technology(SAOT)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216720\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216720 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GN43327C_EN-1.jpg?resize=336%2C501&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Semi-Automated Offside Technology(SAOT)\" width=\"336\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GN43327C_EN-1.jpg?w=435&amp;ssl=1 435w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GN43327C_EN-1.jpg?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>S<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">emi-automated offside technology(SOAT) is a support tool for video match officials and on-field officials to help them make faster, more reproducible and more accurate offside decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How do the SOAT works?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two parts to the technology \u2014 a sensor inside the match ball that is held using suspension technology, and existing tracking tools that are part of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every time the ball is hit, data is sent in real-time (at a whopping 500 frames per second) to a network of antennae installed around the playing field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, there are 12 Hawk-Eye cameras set up around the turf that shadow both the ball and the players, with as many as 29 separate points in the human body tracked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The coming together of the ball sensor and the Hawk-Eye cameras is in effect SAOT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These two data sets are run through artificial intelligence software which generates automated alerts about offsides to the match officials. This replaces the manual effort taken in poring over replays for minutes on end.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExplained | How FIFA is using SAOT for offside decisions\u201d published in The Hindu on 1st December 2022. What is the News? Federation Internationale de Football Association(FIFA) is using Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT) for offside decisions in the ongoing football world cup. What is Semi-Automated Offside Technology(SAOT)?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-how-fifa-is-using-saot-for-offside-decisions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained | How FIFA is using SAOT for offside decisions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-216719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816873},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}