Referee Ruling System - Refereelights
Refereelights is a system that allows referees to rule on powerlifting competitions.
About the Client
The International Powerlifting Federation is an international governing body for the sport of powerlifting as recognized by the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF). The goal of the IPF is to ease the process of powerlifting competitions and to make it more efficient and fair for all participants by having a system that can be used by all IPF affiliated members.
The Challenge
Challenge 1
Developing a standalone system that operates independently yet integrates seamlessly with other platforms when needed.
Challenge 2
The system must be highly customizable, allowing rule modifications and new feature additions without incurring extra costs or causing delays.
Challenge 3
Ensure accessibility and an intuitive user experience, particularly for referees and jury members, enabling efficient interaction and decision-making.
Our Solution
Refereelights
It was clear that for this system and after analyzing the requirements, a web application would be the best solution using web sockets for near real-time communication between the referees and the system. Both locally and if made available online this would be a reliable solution.
As the goal was it to have mainly local usage we were using raspberry pi to host both the wireless network and the web application. The raspberry pi was properly configured to remove any manual configuration launching immediately the system and showing the result screen.
An android application was also developed which simplifies the usage of the system by the referees and jury members while connected to the systems network.
The system has:
- Jury Overruling & Hold competition Signal
- Timer with sound signals (mostly used for local competitions)
- Referee Ruling per referee
- A dashboard with customisation possibilites
- Intergration with Liftingcast online competition platform
Impact & Results
Since the start of the project 55 units were created and delivered to the IPF affiliated members all over the world.
10 Updates have been made to the system since the start of the project to extend it with features and more to come!
Further integrations with competition system platforms are planned to have a local system which is not dependent in case of problems.
10 Updates have been made to the system since the start of the project to extend it with features and more to come!
Technical Implementation
Architecture
[Architecture description]
Key Features
- [Feature 1]
- [Feature 2]
- [Feature 3]
Technologies Used
Since partnering with Obsidiancorps for this project, we've solved numerous challenges with a system that's fast, adaptable, and runs independently on local devices. If a phone breaks, there's no hassle we can simply switch to another device, even our personal phones. Previously, a broken controller meant replacing the entire system or we had constantly connection issues, but now, we have a solution that is both flexible and resilient."