Every hundredth counts: features of timekeeping
Company OMEGA, the Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, is preparing for the upcoming competition.
Bobsled competitions will be held in the Luge center "Sanki". To determine which of the athletes on the podium will rise, will be available by the latest technologies to measure with high accuracy the results of each race of bobsleigh.
Like other sports, the key element of which is the speed, in the bobsled races the fate is often determined of decimals, hundredths, and even thousandths of a second. The advantage of one-tenth of a second at the start can turn into three tenths at the finish.
LASER sensitized
Specialists in the timing of OMEGA placed along the Sochi toboggan runs pairs of infrared photocells used for measuring time at the start, in the middle of the route and at the finish, as well as to measure the maximum speed developed by each of the athletes during the arrival.
OMEGA QUANTUM TIMER
With extraordinary - 1 μs (one millionth of a second) – resolution, the timer Quantum is rightfully considered the pioneer of a new generation of equipment chronometer OMEGA. Quantum debut took place at the Olympic Games 2012 in London. The resolution of the timer 100 times the same characteristics of its predecessors. Maximum error - 0.1 millionth of (ppm). This means that the error accumulating for ten million seconds, less than one second, that is, the maximum deviation is one second for 116 days.
OMEGA MEASURING DEVICE
On the bobsleigh competitions will debut a new OMEGA measuring device, the ability to instantly communicate important parameters finish each of the races to the viewers who are watching the races at the TV screens. This gadget is equipped with a speed sensor, three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyro sensor - all three sensors to collect data in real time.
OMEGA and Bobsleigh
Interaction of OMEGA with the bobsled sport is not limited to timing at the Winter Olympics: since 2002, the company provides accurate and reliable measurements of timing and results of the competition, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing - FIBT / FIBT - the governing body of the sport. OMEGA and actively promoting the development of a new kind of Luge - monobob racing.
The company OMEGA, the Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Games, said a great honor to work with the IOC, sports federations and athletes and will do everything possible to timekeeping technology, used at the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014, contributed to the strengthening of the Olympic spirit and each second of the Olympic time was posted.
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