Terminology Glossary

Elapsed time from when an individual participant crosses the start line to when they cross the finish line.

A holding area where participants wait before being released to start.

The main monitoring interface in RaceDay Scoring showing stream status and race activity.

Elapsed time from the official race start signal to finish, shared by all participants.

Unfiltered chip detections from the timing reader, including duplicates.

A single chip detection event recorded by the timing system.

Function to re-process timing data from a file, useful for recovering missed reads.

Processed reads that have been matched to participants and deduplicated.

A connection to a timing data source in RaceDay Scoring.

A physical point where times are captured (Start, Finish, Split).

A group of participants who start together at a scheduled time.

A function to temporarily disable chip reading.

Front panel screen showing network, logging, and system status.

Connection for the antenna that detects chips.

Light that flashes when a chip is detected.

Connection for the antenna that activates chips.

Radio-Frequency Identification - technology used in timing chips.

Unique identifier programmed into each timing chip.

Specially programmed chip for system verification that does not appear as a participant.

Antenna that detects timing chips as participants cross the timing line. Common configurations include:

The point where timing is captured, defined by the antenna field coverage.