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Zebra Technologies, NFL and Wilson Sporting Goods to Use RFID During Season

Will again track all players and kickoffs and distribute next gen stats.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Zebra Technologies announced analytics enhancements that will allow fans to gain a deeper understanding of the game by accessing new visualizations, stats and fantasy recommendations never available before.   In collaboration with Wilson Sporting Goods, supplier of the official game football of the NFL, Zebra will engineer and deploy RFID tagged footballs for every game during the 2017 NFL season. This enables the collection of real-time location, speed and rotation data for the footballs.   ...

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