Low Cost and Portable Automatic Athlete’s Timing System

Abstract

For an athlete practicing is a key thing that increases there performance. Assistance devices are very beneficial to maintain or improve the performance of the athlete. During track of training sessions, the coach might not track or guide each and every athlete. The coach may be unable to evaluate an athletes performance precisely is a primary problem. Secondarily imported devices, sensors are expensive; and all the training centers and educational institutions, possibly will not afford these devices. Available timing systems cost thousands of dollars due to the expenses on the sensors and components. Appointing a coach for every athlete is also not possible. The proposed system device indirectly solves the problem of disabled athletes. The developed system is a portable, smart, wireless assistance device that detects elapsed time of an athlete to start and stop line in a racing track arena automatically. When the athlete passes from the starting line and reaches the ending line; the timer system with the help of the sensors will display the elapsed time. This system design has a very easy installation process and is fully automatic; also manual interfacing with the system is not required.