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Wylas Timing’s latest software release allows high-end touchpad integration, enabling users to activate a quiet period and configure timers to automatically restart for multi-lap events.
The quiet period facilitates users to start a new race over the top of swimmers from the previous race while touchpads are active and clock synchronisation has been modified, improving accuracy and reducing the amount of network traffic in the wireless timing system.
The recent upgrades allow swimming clubs to access an affordable high-end wireless timing system, while users with the basic system now have the ability for touchpad integration in the future.
Alongside the latest release, Wylas Timing’s Android apps now follow and use the Material Design theme and guidelines, and the Wylas Display app has been sanctioned as a bonafide Android TV app by the Android team.
See more at the Wylas Timing website.
About Wylas Timing
While involved with our local swimming club, we were disturbed by the outrageous prices being charged for timing and display systems that did not utilise current technologies as effectively as they could. With our expertise in the mobile and software field, we knew that cheap, reliable, off-the-shelf hardware was available. We knew we could build something absolutely world class. So we did.
And we did it in such a way that there are no pool deck cables. It’s all wireless.
Wylas Timing is a software system that co-ordinates the collection, recording and display of timing information for swimming and racing carnivals. Wylas Timing Integrates with your meet management software eliminating transcription errors. It makes running a swim meet easy and fun. Not only does Wylas Timing provide a great system, but it also offers it at an extremely low cost. You can purchase hardware for starter, 12 watches, 2 displays and router for under $2500. The system provides timing and display for the one price with an accuracy margin that is typically less than 3 milliseconds. It eliminates transcription errors and increases the efficiency of swim meets. By using reliable off-the-shelf components, local swim clubs can now finally afford to have a high quality system at an affordable price.
About the product
Wylas Timing™ manages the collection and disbursement of race times via:
• Importation of a meet including races, entries and athlete names from meet management software.
• Marshalling of a race by instructing devices to show:
– the details of the marshalled race.
– including the athletes and their lanes on the displays.
• Synchronising the watches for all the devices.
• Using an electronic starting pistol to start the race and automatically start a single clock for all competitors.
• Displaying a running clock of elapsed time on all displays.
• Allowing race completion to be recorded by one to three time keepers per lane. Each result is sent wirelessly to the recorder which records it and wirelessly notifies all devices that a result has come in.
• Presenting the current race and any entries and results via the large screen displays, with displays updated as new results come in.
• Allowing the recorder to edit times and/or disqualify an athlete. Such changes are immediately propagated to all devices wirelessly.
• Allowing the recorder to finalise a race and export results back to the meet management software.
Wylas Timing™ consists of the following components:
Starter Android application
• Runs on a small Android device (like a cheap phone).
• Starts the race and sends the start message to the Recorder.
• Optionally receives a message (via audio channel) to start the race from an electronic starter.
Recorder web server
• Runs on a machine on the local network, probably the machine used by the recorder.
• Manages the receipt and transmission of the wireless messages co-ordinating the devices.
• Records all timing information for one or more meets.
Recorder web application
Browser accessible web user interface that allows the recorder (person) to:
• import races from the meet management software
• marshall a race
• reset a race
• edit race times
• finalise a race and export results to the meet management software.
Timer/TimeKeeper Android application
• Runs on a small handheld Android device (like a cheap phone).
• One to three TimeKeepers per lane. From 6 -10 lanes per venue.
• Runs with a minimum of 6 TimeKeepers.
• Records the finish of a race by one athlete in one lane and transmits the result to the Recorder.
Display Android application
• Runs on a large flat screen smart TV. Recommend at least on display.
• Listens for changes to the current race and displays details of those lanes/positions for which it has been configured.
• If app has been configured to display more data than will fit on the screen, then it will scroll through additional information automatically.
Wylas Timing can integrate with any Meet Manager. Out of the box we support the following products, but if you have other needs, contact us and we’ll see what we can suggest.
Hytek Meet Manager
• Hytek Meet Manager provides U.S.-centric software for meet management.
• Database adapter available from openwarenow.org.
Splash Meet Manager
• Splash Meet Manager is desktop software for managing swim meets.
• It offers all common functions to create start lists, result lists and other statistic reports (e.g. medal standings, new records).
• Adapter ships with Wylas Timing.
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Abbas Hussain Dhanji