Hi, We are the people that Matt is talking about. We run adventure races for members of the public and corporate groups. These adventure races are usually on mountain bikes, kayaks and running - but we use our timing system for all of them.
The kit is called sportident. Each competitor or team (or landrover in your case), would have an electronic chip or dibber - this could be attached to a wristband or yo-yo or similar. Sportident stations are then placed out at all the checkpoints that you want the teams/people to visit. On arrival at these checkpoints, the participants then place their electronic chip into the station, an action that takes a matter of seconds. This records on both the chip and the station the time that the checkpoint was visited.
On arrival at the finish, pearticipants bring their chip to be downloaded. On downloading, you can process lots of information about what that participant has done - for example total time taken from start to finish, which checkpoints they have visited and at what time, you can also assign points to each checkpoint (if you want some to be worth more than others), you can void certain sections that you don't want to time .... it really is a powerful tool. This information is processed by a computer, and the results are printed out within about 5 seconds of downloading on to a till receipt that can be handed to the participant. The information is also retained on the computer, and after everyone within a class has downloaded their chips, it will automatically generate the overall results for you.
We hire this equipment out to various companies, including the individual chips, checkpoint stations, laptop, results printer and mobile power source (for the laptop and printer). This would be couriered to you prior to an event. We also offer a range of services - from either setting up the laptop with courses and participants on for you, which you would then run yourself, right through to the full service where we would come and run the timing and results for you at your events.
If you think this may be of interest, please do get in touch and we can give you more information.
Thanks, Donna
