APEX 2.0 was built with a clear focus on accuracy and usability in real-world performance environments. Every update has been shaped with practitioners in mind, delivering reliable data while simplifying how it is collected, managed and applied day to day – based off feedback from practitioners themselves.
The result is a system designed to fit seamlessly into existing workflows, without adding complexity or friction.
What it is
STATSports Smart Training Ground Solution is a fixed performance monitoring infrastructure that provides complete, continuous coverage across a training environment.
Unlike portable beacons, Smart TGS is permanently installed, ensuring that every athlete wearing a GPS device is tracked reliably at all times. Smart Beacons are strategically positioned and wired around the training ground, communicating directly with athletes’ GPS devices to deliver uninterrupted live data.
This enables multiple groups, including full training, position specific, and rehabilitation sessions to operate simultaneously without loss of data or signal.
Why it’s needed
In high performance environments, reliable live data is essential for managing workloads, intensity, and player welfare.
Although flexible, portable systems can introduce limitations through setup requirements, charging, transport, or restricted coverage. Smart Infrastructure removes these constraints by providing always on monitoring, ensuring that live data is available as soon as athletes enter the training environment.
Metrics such as distance, high speed running, sprint counts, and positioning are streamed live and displayed instantly on tablets, allowing staff to analyse performance in real time and intervene immediately when athletes approach physical thresholds.
Who is this useful for
This system is particularly important for teams managing large squads or running multiple sessions simultaneously across a training ground.
It supports coaches, performance staff, and medical teams who require full visibility of all athletes from high intensity field sessions to controlled rehabilitation work without blind spots or setup limitations.
With continuous coverage, practitioners can monitor individual athletes or entire groups in real time, ensuring consistent data quality across all training activities.
Example scenario
It’s a busy training day with multiple groups operating simultaneously across the training ground.
- A group of first-team players who completed 90+ minutes are on one pitch carrying out an MD+1 recovery session.
- Players who received limited match minutes are completing a higher-intensity top-up session on an adjacent pitch.
- The U18 squad are training on a third pitch.
- Several players are also completing individual rehabilitation work with medical staff.
Partway through the session, coaches decide to remove several first-team players from the top-up group to manage accumulated load from recent matches. To maintain numbers, a number of academy players are brought across from the U18 session.
With up to 96 players’ live data available on one iPad and with Smart TGS providing continuous coverage across the entire training environment, performance staff maintain live visibility of every athlete regardless of which pitch they are on.
Using historical data, staff can quickly identify which academy players are physically best suited to step up into the higher intensity environment. As those players move between groups, their live metrics continue to be monitored without any need to reconfigure equipment, relocate infrastructure, or manage separate monitoring systems.
Throughout the session, coaches and practitioners can track key metrics across all groups simultaneously, ensuring each athlete receives an appropriate training stimulus while remaining within planned workload targets.
The result is a seamless transition between groups, consistent data collection across the training ground, and greater confidence in real time decision making.
Outcome for practitioners
Smart Training Ground Solution enhances efficiency, consistency, and confidence in live performance monitoring.
By removing logistical barriers and ensuring accurate, continuous data capture, the system supports evidence based decision making around load management, injury prevention, and performance development.
Practitioners benefit from streamlined workflows, reliable live insights, and complete visibility across the entire training environment even in complex, multi group scenarios.
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