Nova
Your AI coach, built into your sporting world — sensors that understand the athlete and the equipment.
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Not another tracker.
Nova.
NOVA is a sports intelligence system from Next Athlete. One sensor understands the athlete. One understands the equipment. One sees the action. Together they turn real sporting moments into coaching you can act on.
Three devices. One intelligence.
Nova Z
Ultra-thin and worn on your shirt or your shorts. NOVA Z captures every move so you can train smarter.
Nova X
Our AI sport equipment range — the sensor is built inside the bat, racket, stick or pad.
Nova Y
A small clip-on camera that captures the action from the athlete's point of view.
Movement becomes
intelligence.
Three devices capture what actually happens in sport. Everything they record feeds one place — NOVA AI — which turns raw motion into a conversation about your performance.
What each one does.
Nova Z
NOVA Z is the ultra-thin sensor that goes where you go. Sew it into performance wear, stick it on with the adhesive pad, or slip it into a compression pocket — then wear it on the chest, upper back or sleeve of your shirt, or at the waistband or side of your shorts.
Nova X
NOVA X is our AI sport equipment range. The sensor is fitted inside the equipment itself — a cricket or baseball bat handle, a tennis, padel or pickleball racket handle, a hockey shaft, or between the layers of a football shin pad.
Nova Y
NOVA Y is a small clip-on camera worn on the chest or the peak of a cap. It records the action from the athlete's own point of view, giving NOVA the visual context that sits alongside the numbers from Z and X.
Everything feeds one intelligence.
Z, X and Y each see a different part of the same moment. Every device streams into NOVA AI, which works out what actually happened and explains it back to you in plain language.
Your assistant coach and
performance analyst, together.
NOVA AI is built to talk to you — ask how the session went, what changed between your first ten swings and your last ten, or what to work on before the next one. It combines the role of an assistant coach, who tells you what to do next, with a performance analyst, who tells you what the data actually shows. All your data, one ecosystem.
Capture
Z, X and Y record the real sporting action as it happens and stream it to your phone.
Understand
NOVA identifies what took place — the swing, the strike, the movement, the moment of impact.
Explain
The session becomes plain language: what was good, what slipped, where consistency broke down.
Recommend
You get a next step — what to work on before the next session, and what to watch for.
Nova Z
NOVA Z is the ultra-thin movement sensor that goes where you go. Worn on your shirt or your shorts, it captures every move so you can train smarter and perform better.
Three ways to wear it.
- Sew on — sew onto innerwear or performance apparel using the built-in slots
- Stick on — use the athletic-grade adhesive pad for a secure stick-on fit
- Slip in pocket — designed to fit in compression wear pockets
Shirt or shorts.
- On your shirt — on chest, upper back or on sleeve
- On your shorts — waistband front, waistband back or on shorts side
- Deliberately not a wristband — no screen, no distraction, nothing hard to catch an opponent
Captures every move
Acceleration, deceleration, rotation, jumps and more.
Smarter insights
AI-powered analysis helps you train and recover better.
Built for all athletes
From amateurs to pros. For every sport.
Nova intelligence
All your data. One ecosystem. Endless possibilities.
Nova X
AI sport equipment.
NOVA X builds the intelligence into the kit you already play with. Internal fit, protected from impact, one shared platform across bat, racket, stick and pad sports — so the equipment itself understands the action.
One Nova X.
Different sporting worlds.
Rather than a different gadget for every game, the same NOVA X platform moves between sports through different internal housings and sport-specific analytics. It lives inside the equipment — protected, balanced and completely out of the athlete's way.
- Internal fit — built into the handle, shaft or pad, not strapped on
- Protected — shielded from impact by the equipment itself
- Shared platform — one architecture, many sports
- Swing and strike acceleration, angular speed through the action
- Backswing, downswing, follow-through and impact timing
- Action count, repeatability and consistency over a session
AI sport equipment.
Cricket and football are our first focus. The rest of the range is in concept development on the same platform.
Cricket bat
Built into the handle. Reads bat speed, the shape of the swing and the moment of contact.
Football shin pad
Sits between the shin pad layers. Reads the strike, the approach and how cleanly contact is made.
Tennis racket
Inside the handle. Reads racket speed, swing path and the timing of each strike.
Padel racket
Inside the handle, tuned for the shorter, sharper swing patterns of padel.
Pickleball racket
Inside the handle. Reads compact strokes, contact timing and rally consistency.
Field hockey stick
Inside the shaft. Reads the hit, the drag and how the stick rotates through the action.
Baseball bat
Inside the handle. Reads bat speed, swing plane and where in the swing contact happens.
Nova Y
Micro action camera. Built for movement.
Small, clip-on and worn on the chest or the peak of a cap — NOVA Y captures the action from the athlete's own point of view.
Small enough to forget.
NOVA Y has no display and nothing to operate mid-session. It clips on, records, and gives NOVA a view of what the sensors felt — so a spike in the data has a picture attached to it.
- Small — a compact body that stays out of the way
- Clip-on — chest or cap mounting, on and off in seconds
- Capture — athlete point-of-view recording
- Visible recording indicator
- Designed to synchronise with Nova Z and Nova X sessions
Become a Nova
beta partner.
We are looking for athletes, coaches, academies, clubs and partners to help test NOVA Z and NOVA X in real training environments. Register your interest and we will be in touch as places open.
