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Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2024
When an advertiser or race event wants to reach millions of people, they rarely can afford to create a meaningful campaign. The problem is that there have been few platforms that can reach millions of athletes at an affordable price. Not anymore. The ITS platform is the first and only fully integrated and automated platform that can deliver highly targeted ads for just 25 cents per CPM. This is 1/20th the typical price paid in other magazines or platforms, and the level of targeting is not even close to what we can offer. Click on the photo to learn more!
Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2024
Innovation in Race Timing Systems has been the focus of our company dating back to our founding 17 years ago. In the beginning, it was Kurt and his wife Jan working in their house. It was an exciting and chaotic time as the company began to grow out of control. In just a couple of years, they moved into a building and began hiring a couple of employees. Today, the company has grown to around 16 full-time staff and a number of contracted staff. In total, there are about 25 people who work hard to maintain our leadership in the Sports Race Timing Industry. Click on the photo to learn about our most recent hire. She's a keeper!
Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Sometimes a timing system for athletic events needs to deliver remarkable performance under crowded conditions. ITS engineers decided two years ago to re-invent RFID technology to deliver the most powerful chip timing systems platform ever created. It's designed to provide 100% redundancy, blazing fast chip reads, and extreme reliability. The G4 is ideal for new timers or race organizations with smaller events. The Pro version includes a built-in computer and support for Wi-Fi, Cell, Satellite, and more. It also has a hot-swappable battery architecture that allows is to run for days. It's shock proof, drop proof, water proof, dust proof and designed to operate in temperatures from -25F to +140F.
Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2024
PhotoVision is now the industry leader when it comes to price/performance/benefits! You can use our Single, Dual or Trio camera solution to capture photos from multiple points. All of the cameras run at full frame-rate and capture high resolution full color pictures. When it comes to scoring a race, we've made that easy as well. You can have 1, 2 or 3 cameras capturing, and 1, 2 or 3 laptop computers scoring a race. Imagine dividing up the heats as they start rapidly and using 2 or 3 laptops to quickly score the heats at a big race. We've made it so easy to handle large meets, while also providing benefits for other types of timing. Perhaps you want to analyze a baseball pitcher's delivery to the plate. We make that easy with our add-on Baseball Analyzer. How about football combines where you want to measure the athlete's time to 1,000th of a second, while also studying their running gate? Need to help your golf team improve those fairway shots? Our dual camera solution is ideal for this purpose.
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2022
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The Innovative PowerPlant is a revolutionary portable power solution that provides AC, DC, Ethernet POE and USB power for all of your electronic devices. It can power our timing products, or your refrigerator, laptop, printer, cell phone, lights or even your slow cooker! It has an intelligent computer inside that allows it to deliver power for up to 3 days for many devices. We offer a solar panel that can be used to charge the internal batteries while simultaneously powering your devices.
Posted on Friday, June 4, 2021
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PhotoVision provides high-speed photo capture for every imaginable type of race. Over the past two years the product has evolved at record pace and today we are proud to announce our new Version 3.0 release. This new release offers track n field events new features unlike anything ever seen. Our FATcap wireless gun capture system can now receive signals from up to a half-mile making it much easier to use at geographically challenging events. PhotoVision can now capture full-frame high-resolution photos up to 10-feet in width. Photos can be triggered using our lasers, plungers, third-party gates and your keyboard. A new feature, Automatic Capture, can record photos automatically using real-time image analysis. No need for a white board on the other side of the track. PhotoVision is smart enough to know when new runners are crossing the finish line. This new release also includes automatic image adjustment for days when the amount of light increases and decreases. The list of new features is quite long, but you can reach out to our sales department to learn more!
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Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021
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ITS once again revolutionizes the Digital Clock industry with its new single and double sided 8", 10" and 22" clocks. Razer thin with dual and quad super-bright LEDs allows them to be seen from great distances. 100% designed and manufactured by ITS in the USA allows us to deliver amazing quality and support. Our clocks are incredibly light. For example, the 8" double-sided clock weighs only 22 pounds! All of these new clocks support WiFi, Bluetooth and have an open API, allowing you to write your own software to control them. Every clock has a Web Server running in it so you can operate it from any web browser! As if that wasn't enough, you can power the clocks using POE (Power over Ethernet). The clocks have a beautiful water-proof walnut case that will last for 30 years...even if placed outside. Contact our sales department if you would like to learn more.
Posted on Monday, April 26, 2021
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When COVID deals you a heavy hand, you re-group and come back stronger than ever. In years past, this military service organization hosted one of the largest events of its kind in the world. Unfortunately the pandemic made this impossible. However, ITS YOUR RACE came to the rescue. Our Virtual Race Platform allowed the customer to raise millions of dollars with nearly 8,000 people in over 20 countries participating in a virtual Marathon! Our virtual race platform includes a feature-rich Mobile App that is FREE to all participants. It allowed athletes to do training, track their progress and map their run with our GPS tracking. They could even upload a selfie at the end of their run and share it with all of their friends on Social Media. When you're looking for a virtual platform that can deliver amazing features, look no further. Nearly 8,000 athletes loved the opportunity to donate millions and they loved participating in an event with state-of-the-art features.
Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2020
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're helping charitable organizations continue to raise money by launching our Runners Stay Strong Virtual Race Series. This allows any charity or nonprofit to receive donations by hosting a virtual event for FREE on our
ITS YOUR RACE registration and results platform.
Posted on Monday, March 2, 2020
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We are marching our way into March with a new Timer of the Month! Presenting Brent Walker of Fun Promotions LLC, a staple in Michigan's racing community for the last 30 years. Brent specializes in catering to race directors and putting on memorable events that help build the community. Learn more about what his motto is, how he became a timer, and what advice he has to give to others in the industry.
Posted on Monday, February 3, 2020
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We're headed down south to show some love to our long-time customer Danny Potts of Road Race Timing in Georgia! Danny has been in the business for well over 40 years, hosting and timing everything from a simple 5K to statewide track and field meets. Learn more about his timing business and upcoming events in our latest blog post.
Posted on Thursday, January 2, 2020
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Let's start off 2020 right by honoring this amazing timer from WYO Timing.... Melanie Green. This family-operated timing business based in Wyoming puts the "TEAM" in teamwork! Melanie helps put on notable events like the Bighorn Trail Run, Dead Swede Hundo, Dakota Five-0, and the Crow Fair Teepee Creepers 5K.
Posted on Monday, December 1, 2019
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Are you ready for the last Timer of the Month for 2019? We've saved the best for last and it's none other than Stephanie Slate from Go! Sports Timing! See what her motto is, why she got started as a timer, and what advice she has for other timers.
Posted on Monday, November 25, 2019
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Our CheckIn App is here! The app is a simple race day tool that allows your packet pickup volunteers to check participants in and assign bib numbers using their own mobile device. This eliminates the need for multiple laptops at your check-in table, and makes race morning run smoothly for your participants and volunteers.
Posted on Tuesday, October 1, 2019
October's Timer of the Month is known for putting on AMAZING races for the Greater Chicago Area. For Mary Agnes Zellmer, putting on a successful race means meeting all of her client's needs. Learn why she got into the race timing business, what race/event has meant the most to her, and tips and tricks she uses to earn more revenue.
Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2019
September's Timer of the Month is the one, the only; Bob Underwood of Underdog Race Timing. Bob and his team are busy just about every weekend timing a variety of races: there isn't much they haven't done! We caught up with Bob to find out how he runs a successful business. We also dive into his work with the Special Olympics among other organizations.