The English Premier League Has a New, iPhone-Powered Offside Detection System

The EPL 's new offside-detection system is apparently able to spot a player's position on the field, and call them offside, with more accuracy than ever.

The system uses the built-in cameras of iPhone 14 models and newer.

Using iPhone cameras, Dragon can track between 7,000 and 10,000 points on each player at all times.

Dragon leverages the ability of iPhones to capture video in ultrahigh frame rates.

The system can auto-detect important impending events and scale up the frame rate of certain cameras temporarily, then scale back down when appropriate to save computing power.

It's not just capturing movements, it’s contextualizing them in real time and even learning from them.

Genius says it’s been testing Dragon for several years , both in the EPL and several other venues, in multiple formats.

The company employs several internal analysts who project tracking data into a video format, then go frame by frame alongside broadcast video to detect any discrepancies.

The real evaluation will be made by fans and players, who will need to see Dragon in action.