World Cup soccer players should be happy: A new chip-enabled soccer ball won’t be ready for use at the World Cup soccer tournament in Germany this June, according to the F¿ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).The world soccer body also took a pass on using the ball at the FIFA Club World Championship games in Tokyo this past December. “The technology isn’t perfect yet,” says Jan Runau, a spokesman with sportswear manufacturer Adidas-Salomon, which supplies the official game balls for the tournaments. “We have to be 1,000 percent certain that it works perfectly before we can deploy it in professional soccer games.” He declined to say when that would be.Engineers working on the smart ball had hoped it would be ready for the World Cup tournament. The technology is based on an application-specific integrated circuit chip (radio frequency identification chips are one example) with a transmitter to send data. The chip, suspended in the middle of the ball to survive acceleration and hard kicks, sends a radio signal to the referee’s watch when the ball crosses the goal line. Similar chips, but smaller and flatter, have been designed for players’ shin guards.The ball is being developed by Adidas, the Fraunhofer Institute and software company Cairos Technologies. Related content brandpost The steep cost of a poor data management strategy Without a data management strategy, organizations stall digital progress, often putting their business trajectory at risk. Here’s how to move forward. By Jay Limbasiya, Global AI, Analytics, & Data Management Business Development, Unstructured Data Solutions, Dell Technologies Jun 09, 2023 6 mins Data Management feature How Capital One delivers data governance at scale With hundreds of petabytes of data in operation, the bank has adopted a hybrid model and a ‘sloped governance’ framework to ensure its lines of business get the data they need in real-time. By Thor Olavsrud Jun 09, 2023 6 mins Data Governance Data Management feature Assessing the business risk of AI bias The lengths to which AI can be biased are still being understood. The potential damage is, therefore, a big priority as companies increasingly use various AI tools for decision-making. By Karin Lindstrom Jun 09, 2023 4 mins CIO Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership brandpost Rebalancing through Recalibration: CIOs Operationalizing Pandemic-era Innovation By Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies Jun 08, 2023 6 mins CIO Digital Transformation Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe