Hawk-Eye Innovations

Hawk-Eye Innovations is a Basingstoke, UK-headquartered sports technology company and part of the Sony Group, specializing in precision optical tracking, electronic officiating, video replay, and performance analytics across 25+ professional sports in 100+ countries. Founded in 2001 by Paul Hawkins and acquired by Sony in 2011, Hawk-Eye operates alongside Pulselive and Beyond Sports within Sony's sports division. The company is the standard for ball-tracking in tennis (Electronic Line Calling, now used in place of human line judges at the major tours), goal-line technology and semi-automated offside in football (Premier League, FIFA), video replay in cricket (DRS), NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, rugby, and PGA Tour shot-tracking. Core product platforms include SMART Replay, SMART Track, SMART Insight, HawkAR, iHawk, HawkREPLAY, HawkNEST, HawkVISION, SkeleTRACK, Electronic Line Calling, Goal Line Technology, Semi-Automated Offside Technology, and VAR systems. Revenue comes from long-term contracts with leagues, federations, and broadcasters; there is no public developer API, SDK, or open-source release for Hawk-Eye products. All integrations are bespoke and delivered through Sony Sports Business / Hawk-Eye operations teams.

Hawk-Eye Innovations is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Sports Technology, Ball Tracking, Optical Tracking, Officiating, and Electronic Line Calling.

Hawk-Eye Innovations’ developer surface includes product news, GitHub presence, YouTube channel, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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name: Hawk-Eye Innovations
description: Hawk-Eye Innovations is a Basingstoke, UK-headquartered sports technology company and part of the Sony Group,
  specializing in precision optical tracking, electronic officiating, video replay, and performance analytics across 25+ professional
  sports in 100+ countries. Founded in 2001 by Paul Hawkins and acquired by Sony in 2011, Hawk-Eye operates alongside Pulselive
  and Beyond Sports within Sony's sports division. The company is the standard for ball-tracking in tennis (Electronic Line
  Calling, now used in place of human line judges at the major tours), goal-line technology and semi-automated offside in
  football (Premier League, FIFA), video replay in cricket (DRS), NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, rugby, and PGA Tour shot-tracking. Core
  product platforms include SMART Replay, SMART Track, SMART Insight, HawkAR, iHawk, HawkREPLAY, HawkNEST, HawkVISION, SkeleTRACK,
  Electronic Line Calling, Goal Line Technology, Semi-Automated Offside Technology, and VAR systems. Revenue comes from long-term
  contracts with leagues, federations, and broadcasters; there is no public developer API, SDK, or open-source release for
  Hawk-Eye products. All integrations are bespoke and delivered through Sony Sports Business / Hawk-Eye operations teams.
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- Officiating
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- Performance Analytics
- Computer-Vision
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- Football
- Cricket
- Baseball
- Basketball
- American Football
- Rugby
- Ice Hockey
- Golf
- Sony
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- Sports Technology
- Ball Tracking
- Optical Tracking
- Officiating
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- Goal Line Technology
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created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
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- type: DomainSecurity
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- type: Website
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- type: Sports
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- type: Parent
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- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/hawkeyeinnovations
- type: LinkedIn
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- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/HawkEyeInnov
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@HawkEyeInnovationsLtd
- url: https://www.hawkeyeinnovations.com/news
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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