11/02/2010

Superpuck Goal Line Technology Attracting Interest From Football

The technology developed over the past 18 months with partners TAG Heuer Sports Timing in France and Vegum in Slovakia has attracted the attention of FIFA in Switzerland.

Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, recently announced that they were now prepared to consider using technology to accurately detect when the football is over the line.

This is easier to detect with a 22cm diameter round ball than a 7.6cm ice hockey puck.

The proof-of-concept ice hockey tests are very positive and will be presented to the IIHF world ice hockey governing body after the Vancouver Winter Olympics, which start this week.

Vegum are rubber manufacturers who make everything from car windscreen rubbers to ice hockey pucks and football inner bladders. These bladders will be adapted to accomodate the TAG Heuer transponder(s) with detection being set at 12cm behind the goal-line.

When the international standard 22cm diameter football travels 12cm over the line - at any speed - the F1 type transponder will signal a goal within 1/1000th of a second to within +/- one centimetre accuracy.

Bob Jamieson is excited by the opportunity and the SFA (Scottish Football Association) are considering taking the project forward to FIFA.

The SFA were also the first Association to propose this technology to FIFA in 1998 ... which had been rejected for 12 years until last month when Sepp Blatter made the announcement, which has been welcomed by everyone in football worldwide.

Bob Jamieson also confirmed that " .. nobody is taking their eye off the puck" and that the Superpuck remained the business' top priority.

See short football video here www.goallinetechnology.com