Manchester City unveils smart scarf to measure fans’ emotions at matches

classic team color scarves They have been walking around football stadiums for over 100 years. They have the function of keeping you warm in winter, showing which team you belong to, encouraging football players when you wave them in the air… And from now on, they will also serve to evaluate the emotions of the crowd.

ManchesterPep Guardiola’s team has unveiled what he calls knitted scarf. BUT smart scarf containing an EmotiBit chip with sensors to measure emotions during matches.

This chip, similar to the one used in activity bracelets, is placed on the neck instead of on the wrist. In this image, you can see the various sensors it contains:

The chip was made in collaboration with Cisco. As we can see in the image, it has PPG sensor which measures blood flow through the skin and EDA sensor used in lie detectors. This sensor measures aspects such as nervousness or changes in blood pressure and heartbeat.

scarf with sensor Manchester Cityand also owns temperature sensorand accelerometer to measure motion.

With this whole set, Manchester City medical managers will be able to measure aspects such as nervousness when the team loses joy with a goal scored emotion what causes goosebumps fear when an opponent is about to take a penalty, and if the stadium is too cold or too hot.

And why do Manchester City need all this biometric data? Well… they don’t make it too clear. The website of the presentation states that “this data will allow us to create more carefully curated and personalized experiences in the future.“.

Printed Manchester City scarf It is already in the testing phase and will go on sale next season. Cisco plans to bring this technology to other countries and to other teams and sports.