Smart Cricket Ball: Solutions to Design and Deployment Challenges

Cricket is the most played and accepted game in the Asian region of the world. In any game decision-making affecting the result plays a major role, which has to be accurate in every aspect to conclude the fair game. This matter is a live cricket match or even in training sessions. To date, decision-making was dependent on visual observation by the expert umpire. These manual observations of results may be inaccurate at some point and based on the experience and expertise of the umpire. With the rapid advancement and technological involvement in gaming industries, electronic gadgets are helping the player to enhance the performance and accuracy of results. This paper deals with the challenges and the possible solutions involved in designing and building a smart cricket ball, which will be capable to calculate and share the ball’s activity log. This log will involve the direction, speed, type, trajectory, spin, deviation angle, and impact triggers. It is difficult to get all information from a single type of sensor or module, this work suggests creating the fusion of multiple sensors and software algorithms for accurate measurements.