UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and Sports & Wellbeing Analytics (SWA), a global leader in sports technology specializing in data-driven solutions to help protect athletes and optimize their performance, today announced an unprecedented collaboration to monitor and measure biometric characteristics (i.e., heart rate) and head impacts in combat sports.
The joint effort will feature the UFC Performance Institute (UFC PI), the world’s leading combat sports performance training, research, rehabilitation, and nutrition center, working in conjunction with SWA to implement the PROTECHT advanced in-mouth sensor system, which is designed to monitor an athlete’s heart rate and head impacts in real time through an instrumented mouthguard.