Sentences with phrase «head impact telemetry»

Dr. James Clugston (left) and Matt Graham, coordinator for the head impact telemetry system at UF, set up the system inside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

High schools in the U.S. have been using Head Impact Telemetry System technology in football helmets, where six battery powered sensors record the location, force, duration and direction of an impact and send the information wirelessly to a lap top on the sidelines.

Unity High School in Tolono, Ill., has equipped its 32 varsity football team members with special helmets that employ Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS) technology.

To quantify youth football players» exposure to head impacts in practices and games over the course of a single season, the researchers outfitted helmets of 50 players on three teams in two different leagues with the HIT (Head Impact Telemetry) system, an array of helmet - mounted accelerometers (i.e. hit sensors) installed on an elastic base inside the helmet.

As co-founder of Simbex, LLC, the Lebanon, New Hampshire company that makes the HITS (Head Impact Telemetry System)- a peer - reviewed, scientifically - validated technology used by researchers in biomechanical studies to measure head impacts on the playing field, and a version of which has been incorporated into Riddell's new InSite Impact Sensing System - Greenwald knows a thing or two about the technology of head impact exposure monitoring.