The official timekeeping of the Buenos Aires Marathon in 2012, we recently discovered, was handled
by a company called MACSHA. They design and manufacture equipment for timing sporting events
like marathons, swimming competitions, bicycle and motor races. One of their flagships systems is the One4All.
One4All is a high precision timing system for any type of sporting event. The system works
with pre-coded high frequency RFid tags. Each tag corresponds to a single competitor. When the
tag passes through a designated area like a finish line, it gets activated by specially designed antennas.
After that the tags return the registered data to One4All’s software that stores and displays the results.
A mikromedia board is the system’s control panel. MACSHA’s COO Peter explains:
“mikromedia was the fastest and most economical solution for our One4All control panel. Together
with other electronics it helped minimize our production efforts. We’ve been working with mikromedias
since we discovered them in 20010.”
Other than the Buenos Aires marathon, MACSHA’s products have been used in events in Mexico, Ecuador,
Spain, Brazil, Israel, Denmark, etc. This year they handled the 2014 edition of Le Touquet’s beach race in France.
So that’s another successful product using MikroElektronika components. What are you working on?
How’s your project progressing? Does it feel like a marathon or a series of sprints? If you need inspiration
check out previous stories from the series: we wrote about a GSM activated school bell in Namibia,
a school in Belgium with an EasyPIC equipped classroom. Then there’s the mikromedia powered mini maus beet loader.
Share your story of our own to share with us, just send us a message at marketing@mikroe.com
and include “My Story” in the subject line.
Yours sincerely,
MikroElektronika
