Clubs and parents across NSW will have a lot less work to do this week at the State Swimming Championships!
Swimming NSW has hired Olly Timing to provide backup times for the championship. This eliminates over 6 person months of volunteer effort via an estimated 700 timekeeping shifts.
Touchpads at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre will be the primary timing, and Olly Timing’s world first artificial intelligence technology will provide the backup, instead of volunteer timekeepers.
In addition to this huge saving in volunteer effort, Olly Timing’s video replay technology will allow results to be reviewed in case of queries.
Olly Timing has been developed with strong support from SNSW and has successfully recorded over 40,000 times since its launch in February. SOPAC is the first in growing list of venues now equipped with this transformational technology.
Olly Timing Founder, Ben Ramsden, commented: “Volunteer timekeepers recorded results for my kids when they swam. I am so pleased that with the support of SNSW we can repay that debt by making timekeeping history”.
