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is the most advanced newly added technical tool used in cricket. It was also introduced by channel-9 network of Australia. In hotspot the idea is to have 2 infrared cameras static above the field of cricket arena and continuously record play. It shows the point where the ball hit the batsman, bat or pad.

The mechanism of hot spot is that it uses 2 infra red cameras which are placed at either end of the ground. These infra red cameras sense and measure heat generated by a collision, for instance ball on pad, ball on bat, ball on ground or glove.

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the ball makes a collision with the edge of a bat, it increases the local temperature goes up and facilitates creation of a heat image which the technology records with the help of two infra-red cameras situated on opposite sides. On any snick or bat pad event occurring the infrared camera sends an image through to a computer which then turns it into negative image showing us the outcome of the recent incident.

Hot Spot uses technology developed in the military for tank and jet fighter tracking. The technology was adapted for television by BBG Sports, the Australian company responsible for the Snickometer, in conjunction with Sky Sports. The technology was first used by the Australian Nine Network during the first Test match of the 2006-07 Ashes at The Gabba, on 23 November 2006.

Infra-red sensors are electronic devices that sense and measure infra-red radiations emitting from objects in its field of view. Infra-red cameras records the event in form of video. Infra-red sensors assign intensity values to each pixel in the frame. These frames will be transmitted to the computer which is placed infront of the third umpire. Now the third umpire uses subtraction technique to generate a series of black and white images and to locate a white spot and thus he can easily adjudicate whether the batsman is out or not.

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whole process can be divided into two phases. In the first phase an infra-red camera records the event in its field of view and the infra-red sensors will assign pixel intensity values to each pixel in the frame. When there is collision heat is produced as a result of friction. The pixels in which there is collision will be having much higher pixel intensity values than the other pixels in the frame. The software is so calibrated that a high intensity value pixel generates white color and lower intensity value pixels give a dark color.

Hot Spot has two main advantages over its competing technology, the Snickometer, which is a sound-detection based system. Snickometer often produces inconclusive results indicating contact (potentially any combination of bat, pad and ball) only, whereas the Hot Spot clearly shows exactly what the ball strikes. Hotspot technology, even though claimed to be extremely accurate, is not used in many matches. The main reason for this is its expense: $6000 per day for the use of two cameras and $10000 for the use of four cameras.