PC Timekeeping
PARCOURS@ PC The timekeeping software
If you want your tournament to be professional, informative and maximally transparent for participants and spectators, just as large events, our PC timekeeping system PARCURS @ PC is the right choice.
- Informative, transparent and professional for your tournament
- External starter list, Live ticker, web-results and much more.
With PARCOURS@PC we have created an environment that leaves almost nothing to be desired. Realizing a starter list at the warm up area, addressing a video wall for the spectators or a flat screen with live-ticker hanging in the VIP tent, all this poses no issue with our PC timekeeping.
With the ear at the customer, we put great emphasis on simplicity in operation as well as best possible practicability.
Discover our PC timekeeping
Event organizer: “Timekeeping has developed strongly recently! Needless to say, it is not as easy as a control panel that judges operate. A timekeeper who is familiar with the system is needed but that entails an event and the required technology, if the tournaments shall be interesting.”
Available time modules
Following time modules are available for PC timekeeping.
- Horse Riding Show Jumping / Driving/ Eventing
- Dog Sports Agility/ Racing
- Mountain biking / Mountain running
- Motorsport Go-Cart slalom
General facts
- Flexibly adjustable – as a simple extended control panel – or working extensively with starter lists
PARCOURS@PC can be adjusted according to your needs. Optionally as a simple extended “control panel” with adjustable penalty points for faults and time or additionally with activated participant management for starter lists.
- Adjustable obstacle and time penalties
- Automatic penalty point calculation after timeout
Standard penalty point calculation for timeout or ideal-time. for 2 phases. Multiplied for driving sport.
- Import filter for starter lists. Excel / Toris / Sporty Dog / Concours 3.5
The participant list can be imported with only a few clicks.
- Signal sound
All common competitions, judging systems & measuring modes included
Depending on the time module purchased, all necessary measuring modes are included in the program. 1-line, Start-and Finishing line, 3-lines or 2-phases up to the jump-off, directly or also in 2 rounds.
- 1 line
- start and finishing line
- 3 lines
- 2 Multi-monitor support
- Multi-Monitor Unterstützung
With PARCOURS @ PC you can control up to 1 + 3 additional external monitors. Via direct connection to the graphics card as well as via network or USB graphics cards with corresponding driver software. Network hubs with USB ports for the control of USB graphics cards can be also deployed.
- External starter list
With the Multi-Monitor support the internal starter list can easily be projected on to external flat screens or video walls. Which starter is due, will simply and automatically be symbolized by clicking on the next starter.
- Liveticker
As an additional info screen for judges or announcers as well as for live info in VIP tents. This can also be copied to several screens via so-called splitter boxes.
Cable or radio photocells
The internal control of PARCOURS @ PC processes the signals of our cable or radio photo cells. Also, signals from your own photocells can be connected via potential-free contacts of the computer comport interface.
- Cable photocells
- Wireless photocells
- or NC contacts on the serial Comport / USB adapter
- client / server – providing the data in the network
With PARCOURS @ PC you can easily set the data of the timekeeping protocol into your network via TCP / IP. With our additional software PARCOURS InfoCenter, which offers the possibility to create your personal mask or “display interface”, all information can be displayed on flat screens or video walls. Up to Live TV.
- Html Generator for web results lists
Automatically create Html-based result lists for uploading and launching the competition on-line.
PARCOURS InfoCenter the viewer info board Software
Make your tournament transparent and informative. Use our InfoCenter and create the desired scope of your competition results, participant data and advertising on large monitors, in VIP tents, on flat screens and video walls on your own.
- Free design and design possibilities
- Mask control / loading/ saving/ switch over via hotkey
- Data received via network
- Live TV mode for broadcast van / Green-Box function
- And much more
General facts
- Design and configuration possibilities
Due to the simple design of the CAD system, all available objects can be customized in color, size, image, or font, depending on the position. Rectangles, lines, backgrounds and colour gradients offer a wide range of design possibilities. Determine your own display area and scope. Mask size and position are freely definable.
- Load / save masks
Create different display masks for your tournament e.g. advertising, ranking, etc. Create your own masks for different types of competition.
- Screen control
A Hotkey function can be used to switch quickly and easily between up to 4 display masks. The implemented hide function for the masks enables the user to show background advertising. This can optionally to be actuated by remote command from our PC timing system PARCOURS@PC.
- Data receiving via LAN Network
The InfoCenter has a built-in TCP / IP interface with which a socket/data connection via IP address and port to the client/server of PARCOURS @ PC can be built up. Client/computers that have the InfoCenter installed and running can automatically connect themselves with the timekeeping PC and PARCOURS@PC. This way the InfoCenter can be operated in parallel with the timekeeping PC on up to 4 computers. E.g. Videowall-PC, InfoCenter in VIP tent and / or broadcast van for live TV.
- Camera interface
In order to be able to realize live TV without broadcast van, we have implemented a standard camera interface for TV Cards and USB cameras.
- Live TV mode
- Multi-monitor support
Up to 4 monitors can be used on the InfoCenter compute.
- Direct control panel connection
The autonomous control panels can be connected effortlessly via the computer-comport interface for mere time displaying on advertising-videowalls, large flat screens which serve as display panels, etc..