Solution · Events & Sports
Event & Race Timing
Accurate chip times for a mass start, live results, and certificates in the runner's hand before they go home.
- Offline
- Readers run with no network at all
- Chip time
- Individual timing on a mass start
- Same day
- Certificates before runners leave
Timing a mass-participation run by hand does not work, and cloud-only timing systems fail at venues with no signal. Our approach is offline-first: standalone readers at the start, splits and finish, each with its own clock and local storage, collated afterwards by a desktop application. It handles a city marathon and a 3.2 km army physical test with the same kit.
The problem today
What it looks like before
If two or three of these describe your operation, this solution is worth a conversation. If none of them do, it probably is not.
What we hear
Stopwatch timing cannot handle a mass start, and the results are disputed afterwards.
Event venues frequently have no reliable internet, so cloud-only systems fail on the day.
Splits are not captured, so there is no proof a runner completed the course.
Result compilation and certificates take days, long after the participants have left.
How it works
Step by step, on site
Not an architecture diagram — the actual sequence of what happens to a physical thing.
- 1
Register and assign
Participants register online or on the ground, get a bib number, and a chip or reusable card tag is mapped to them.
- 2
Set up offline readers
Readers at the start, at each split and at the finish, each running standalone with its own clock and local storage. No network required.
- 3
Time the race
Gun time and chip time are captured at the mats, along with every split crossing.
- 4
Collate on the desktop
The desktop application pulls reads from every reader, merges them on a common clock and produces validated results.
- 5
Publish and print
Live leaderboard on a screen, public results where a connection exists, and personalised certificates printed at the venue.
Software used
What changes
Results and benefits
Figures come from real deployments. They depend on site conditions, which is why we commit to numbers for your site only after a trial.
- Offline
- Readers run with no network at all
- Chip time
- Individual timing on a mass start
- Same day
- Certificates before runners leave
- Results that stand up to challenge, because splits prove the course was run.
- The event does not depend on venue connectivity.
- Reusable card tags make repeated institutional events cheap to run.
- Participants leave with a certificate, which is what they remember the event by.
Example deployment
What one site looked like
Client names are withheld until we have written permission to publish them.
Army unit 3.2 km physical test
Three offline readers — start, turnaround and finish — with reusable service ID card tags. Results were collated on a laptop immediately after the last runner, grouped by unit and company, with pass and fail against the standard time. Unit result sheets were handed over the same morning.
Implementation & support
How the project actually runs
Including the parts that take the longest and the parts you have to own rather than us.
- 1
Course and reader plan
Start, split and finish positions chosen for reliable reads and for the timing accuracy the event needs.
- 2
Tag selection
Disposable bib tags for public events, reusable cards or chips for institutions running the same test repeatedly.
- 3
Dry run
A test run with volunteers through every mat before the event, which is when problems are found and fixed.
- 4
Event day operation
Our team or your trained staff run the readers and the collation desk on the day.
- 5
Results and certificates
Results validated and published, certificates printed or issued as download links.
Event & Race Timing solution brief
Offline reader setup, chip timing, splits and same-day certificates.
This is the document that used to live at /pdf/event.pdf on the old site. The content is now on this page; the PDF stays available.
Questions
Before you commit
How many runners can be timed at once?
The limit is the mat and antenna configuration rather than the software. A standard four-antenna finish handles a dense mass finish; very large events get additional mats and lanes.
What if a reader loses power mid-race?
Readers run on UPS or battery packs and store reads locally, so a brief power loss does not lose data. We plan power redundancy as part of the event setup.
Can we run this ourselves?
Yes. Organisers who run events regularly buy the kit and the software and operate it themselves after training. We also run events as a service where you would rather not.
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Send your site details and what you need to track. We come back with a specification, a hardware list and a read-rate trial plan — before you commit to anything.
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