Use case
Trail running and mountain races.
A course stretching over tens of kilometres, posts held by one or two people, and stretches that have never had any coverage.
The ground
On a trail race the problem is the absence of coverage. The course runs through valleys, forest and ridges where no operator ever had a reason to install anything.
Posts are held by one or two people, sometimes for eight hours, sometimes overnight. When a runner fails to come through, it is the marshal who has to be able to say so.
No coverage
Whole stretches of the course where there has never been a mobile signal.
Terrain
Ridges and valleys cut off what little coverage reaches the valley floor.
Isolated posts
A marshal alone on a col, with nobody in earshot and no radio.
What we put up
Units equip the points that matter: aid stations, marshal posts, cols, technical sections, the start and the finish. They do not try to cover the course metre by metre.
Each unit talks to its neighbours, and the path works its way back to race control. How many units and where they go is decided on the recce, against your route.
The units hold the points that matter: start, aid stations, col, finish.
Who uses it
Mountain rescue keep their own systems. Bermud equips the organisation’s posts that have nothing.
Marshals
Call in the first and the last runner through, report a retirement, ask to be relieved.
Aid stations
Check-ins, water and food needs, runners in trouble before the next post.
Sweeper
Where the back of the field is, and closing each post as it passes.
Race control
Which posts are open, alerts as they arrive, and calling rescue with a position.
What you need to have ready
- The route and the list of posts, so the recce can be prepared.
- A fixing point at each chosen location, three to eight metres up. Where nothing stands, one is worked out on the recce.
- Where there is no mains supply, power is worked out with you on the recce.
Let us talk about your course
Send us the route and the list of posts. We will walk the locations with you and work out how many units it takes.