British Bobsleigh Team Uses Crime-Busting Technology to Gain Medal-Winning Edge

The British Bobsleigh team is pioneering surveillance technology, originally designed to help police forces convict criminals, in its quest to improve the performance of its athletes and win a medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

Scyron, the security and surveillance company, is providing an advanced surveillance system that allows the team, whilst still on the slopes, to analyse frame-by-frame their performance and make adjustments to shave tenths and hundredths of a second off their run times.

The system comprises four cameras positioned along the 1,365 metre track . The broadcast quality, digital video is transmitted wirelessly to a central reviewing station where specially designed software allows the team to study the performance in detail on a computer. With multi-screen, split screen, frame-by-frame and overlay functionality, the system provides immediate and high quality performance information for the coaching team and athletes to improve performance.

The Scyron system is derived from technology employed by 43 police forces around the country for the intelligent, targeted analysis of surveillance footage and presentation of video evidence in court.