Jaguar Race Timing System, developed by Innovative Timing Systems, successfully reads thousands of participants at world’s largest 5K event.
Innovative Timing Systems (ITS), announced that their Jaguar Race Timing System successfully timed thousands of participants in the largest 5K event in the world. This is a great achievement for the race timing industry as well as ITS. The ability to successfully read thousands of participants in a 5K this densely crowded is remarkable. This year’s 71,000 plus participants at the Susan G. Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure® were offeredthe option to be chip timed. This presented an incredible challenge and Innovative Timing Systems stepped up to the challenge with its Jaguar Race Timing System.
Said Kurt Hansen, Innovative Timing Systems President, “It was quite surreal to see people crammed tightly shoulder to shoulder… it looked like a scene from a movie where 71,000 people were trying to evacuate a city at the same time. With such a large mass of people, safety was paramount. Jaguar was the perfect solution because it was designed for extremely high read reliability without any potential trip hazards - antennas were mounted overhead, unlike older technologies that rely on mats or antennas placed on the ground. Our inexpensive disposable G-Chip on the back of their race bib performed wonderfully. Not all of the participants choose to be chip timed, but those that did were happy to know that their results would be displayed accurately in real-time with no delay.”
Over the past two years, ITS has quickly become an industry leader in the field of RFID sports timing. The Jaguar Race Timing System is used world-wide to time events of all types and it supports Marathons, 5Ks, 10Ks, Road Cycling, Mountain Biking, Triathlons, Auto Racing, Motocross, Kayak Races, Cross Country Skiing, Adventure Races, and more. Innovative Timing Systems is relentless in achieving engineering perfection and the company manufactures 10 different types of RFID timing chips, some of which can be read at distances up to 50 feet. In addition, the company has a large portfolio of patents pending on numerous inventions and technologies in the RFID field.
About Innovative Timing Systems, LLC
Innovative Timing Systems, LLC is a privately owned company, providing leading-edge sports timing systems, race timing services for events, and general purpose RFID solutions. Innovative’s products may be used at thousands of events around the world in 2010. Innovative is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and offers solutions world-wide.
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