By: Donovan

Donovan — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:22:05 +0000

Thanks for the comment Ken. I did ask Phil just that – what value does the data have beyond the Tour. He said it is a proof of concept, more than anything else, which will provide lessons for applications in commercial scenarios.
On the trackers themselves and aerodynamics: the Tour and other major races have long mandated tracking devices of some sort. Every rider has the same device on their bike, so that levels the playing field, so to speak. In this instance, the tracker was tucked behind the saddle, so very much in the immediate slipstream of each individual rider.

By: Ken Holley

Ken Holley — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:16:59 +0000

It will be interesting to see if this continues and what other races it might be used for.
I seems really strange to me that so much goes into aerodynamics yet the race organisers got agreement from all teams to add these transmitters to the bikes.
Be interesting to understand the ROI for Dimension Data too – it’s huge investment and I can’t see any use for the data after the Tour.

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