Race control: your real-time control tower

Participant safety is the top priority of any outdoor sports organisation. The Owaka tracking platform includes a real-time GPS alert system designed to cut response times in emergencies to a minimum. As soon as a participant triggers an alert from their GPS tracker, the organiser gets an immediate sound and visual notification on their platform, with the exact, time-stamped GPS coordinates of the participant in difficulty.

The Owaka satellite tracker offers three distinct alert types, each recognisable at a glance on the dashboard: medical alert, technical alert and “all good” message. Each alert follows a status (pending, resolved, cancelled) with team comments, and the intervention view lists the nearest staff vehicles and participants, with a direct route to the alert's position.

Tracking a sports or motor event in real time requires an overall view of everyone on the ground. The Owaka tracking interface gives organisers an interactive supervision map showing at once the positions of all participants, organisation vehicles, medical vehicles, checkpoints, aid stations and every course of all your races. This unified view lets you make fast, informed decisions, including in emergencies where every second counts.

List filters bring out in one click the participants who are not moving, without signal for 30 minutes, withdrawn or finished. Each tracker's battery level and inactivity time appear on its profile, and the OSM, terrain or satellite base maps suit the terrain of each stage.

Managing the administration of a live sports event is one of the most time-consuming tasks for organisers, especially when withdrawals, injuries or bib changes happen during the race. The Owaka tracking platform brings all these operations together in a single interface, available from any screen, with no particular technical skills required.

In a few clicks, the organiser can edit a participant's profile in real time (surname, first name, gender, country, category) without interrupting GPS tracking. DNS and DNF statuses are set stage by stage or for several participants at once, a faulty tracker is swapped for a spare, and the comments on each participant keep the full history of the race.

The end of the race does not mark the end of race control's usefulness. The Owaka platform automatically generates a complete set of analytics as soon as the last participant crosses the line. This information is a valuable resource for several goals at once: writing official safety reports, communicating with participants and their loved ones, and promoting the event to partners and sponsors.

The post-race replay is one of the most popular features: it replays the whole race on the map, stage by stage. Summary tables give checkpoint times and speeding per zone, and the CSV export, along with each participant's GPX tracks, feeds your reports and your publications.