Author: Konrad

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live tracking

LTE GPS Tracker & Online Management

Providing your own GPS units on-site at competitions? Then you know from personal experience: Coverage and availability are from key importance for any live tracking service. For even more reliability of the Racemap tracking solution we upgrade our professional GL300 tracker with LTE and 2G fallback. Its GNSS module using GPS, Glonass and Beidou ensures the highest possible precision.

GL300 GPS Tracker with LTE in water tight Zip Lock Bag

The GL300 Racemap tracker is a flexible solution that fits the needs as a professional GPS device for multiple athlete tracking of sports events:

  • high precision,
  • long battery life up to three days,
  • safety through SOS button and
  • memory feature in dead spots.

Through our tracker management you efficiently use and monitor all your GPS units e.g. set various parameters for many devices at once (no more complicated SMS commands) and control battery and running time. The Racemap tracking portal is optimized for real-time tracking of competitions and adventures. In your personal Racemap account, you easily create and host your own interactive Tracking Maps within 1 minute.

multiple GPS trackers for application at competitions and sports events

Specifications of GL300 LTE location tracker:

dimension78 x 40 x 27 mm
weight93 g
networkLTE & EDGE (2G)
trafficapprox. 0.21 MB/hr with 10 sec tracking
band 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz
NSSGPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS accuracy2.5 m
reaction time
30 sec cold start
1 sec during operation
battery
3.5 V; 2600 mAh
Li-ion accumulator
battery charge
input: 110 to 220 V
output: 5 V; 1 A
stand by &
running time



480 hr without tracking
13 hr with 5 sec tracking
19 hr with 10 sec tracking
37 hr with 30 sec tracking
62 hr with 1 min tracking
72 hr with 2 min tracking
operating temperature -20°C to +55°C
water protectionsplash-proof with IPx5
configurable buttonsafety feature: SOS alert

Fotocredit: Linda Schroth

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live tracking

Powerful Live Tracking at München Marathon

Scalable Live Tracking at München Marathon

GMM München Marathon is one of Germany’s top five marathon events. This year Racemap provides the software and the server solution for Predictive Live Tracking for over 18,000 participants. Thus the race organizer offered an effortless Live Tracking for all athletes without additional devices like GPS trackers. The data to calculate the prediction comes from the timing system. Thanks to the abavent team who did a great job on the race site.

Great service for 30,000 live viewers which kept track to the race through their smartphone. Just watch the replay of the event above.

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live tracking

Release New Tracking App

Way more than just some bug fixes … Our latest release of Racemap Tracking App for Android & iOS, free download in Google Play & in the App Store. Racemap is one easy App for spectators and participants. Let your audience feel the race.

Racemap Tracking App now provides Group Maps eg. for your multi-stage races
adidas INFINITE trails in Racemap App
Continue reading “Release New Tracking App”
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GPS-Tracker

Crazy for Cross Country Skiing

We develop Racemap for Sports Events. Why? We are crazy for Sports! 

Giving you an example: Our CEO Konrad is going to do three worldloppet races this season. Starting with König Ludwig Lauf & Jizerská 50 … trying to attain a qualification for a good start wave at Vasaloppet, which will be the highlight of Konrad’s Cross Country Skiing Season.

Our CEO Konrad training for Vasaloppet, or is this a break?

Of course, Konrad will use our GPS Trackers to enable a real-time comparison with his club mates. You can just join Live-Tracking @ those three Ski-Races with your GPS Tracker or with Racemap Tracking App. 

Have a nice winter!

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live tracking

New Search Field in Racemap Tracking-Map

You want easy Live-Tracking your spectators will love?

Our new and intuitive search field works perfectly at competitions with many participants and helps spectators keeping the overview over the event. Our search field is displayed on computers and on mobile devices also. The list of participants is displayed only when using the search field and shows statistics like speed, distance from start, current height and distance to go off every athlete of the event. Additional the new search field provides various setting options.

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live tracking

Easy Using Tracking-Map

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live tracking Wettkampf Player

mapbox & fresh Marker Design

Racemap now uses mapbox which enables new map features, Our new marker design targets the location even better

Two major improvements available for our Tracking Map, now:

  1. Our interactive sports visualization now uses mapbox. That enables nice features like changing direction, orientation and layout (as Terrain, Sattelite and Hybrid) of the map (using the right mouse).
  2. New flag design targets precisely the location of the athletes. New hover feature displays the flag with the specific race number. Flags are semitransparent to catch what is covered by the flag.

The visualization concept of Racemap GPS Tracking is clear and easy to understand. Through our Tracking Map any spectator is able to watch the competition on a desktop or on a mobile device.

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tracking portal

New SOS-Feature in Tracker Management

More Safety at Sports-Events: Press SOS on your Racemap-Tracker and activate an alert in Tracker-Management!

SOS-Feature integrated into Racemap Tracker Management

Safety is a selling point! For race organizers, it is getting more and more important to make participants and their families feel safe during a sports event. That way everybody really enjoys the adventure and will come back to next years event.

New SOS-Feature! The most interesting competitions are in remote nature. For those events, Racemap provides the SOS-Feature in combination with Racemap-GPS-Trackers. Pressing the SOS-Button, the athlete activates an alert in the Tracker Management:

  • SOS-Tracker show as first in tracker list
  • Alert pops up and needs to be confirmed, so you can’t miss the important information when monitoring an event in a race office
  • Location of specific tracker is displayed directly in the small map in tracker management

Racemap Tracker Management:

  • Work fast, efficient and accurate with many GPS-Trackers.
  • Combines features to easily manage many GPS-Trackers at once.
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Update

Open Elevation Service

Background: We are working on a predictive Transponder-Tracking in tight collaboration with race|result. The prediction model is using recorded data from the timekeeping system as decoders and from TrackBoxes to forecast the athlete’s location real-time.

Everybody being involved in sports knows that the elevation is from key importance for a good speed prediction. It does strongly influence the speed of the athletes whether they ride their bikes uphill or downhill. Through our project for the Chip-Tracking we noticed, that Google Elevation API is too inaccurate for our use case. And as there is no other open elevation service providing accurate heights, we just developed and hosted such a service ourselves. You can use this service for your own projects under MIT license. You either host this service yourself or just use our API.

Do you have any question or suggestion regarding our elevation service? We are really looking forward to your feedback.

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live tracking Wettkampf Player

Dynamic Visualization of big Events

Racemap offers a flexible tracking solution for all kind of sports events. The last update of Racemap Tracking Map enables a dynamic scale from S to XXL – From 150 devices applied in your Tracking Map, our viszalization shows dots instead of flags. That keeps your Live-Tracking clearer for your spectators even at big events.