Blackheart Events Technology

Press Release / 31.03.2010

Developed by former world orienteering champion Furstov Aperalovska, BlackHeart Events have now implemented a new GPS chip into their maps, that emits a warning signal every time a team carrying the map strays more than a pre-determined distance off the optimal route, as determined by the race director.

Race director Matt Koerber said of the new GPS chip - “There are many applications for this new technology, from ensuring that all teams can be challenged by the navigation, knowing that they will be corrected if they stray too far off course, to being able to run handicapped Adventure Races, where advanced teams receive no assistance, while less experienced teams are virtually guided around the course”.

The cost of the GPS technology has been absorbed by new GPS tracking partners Phulz Australia, the distributor of the new technology in Australia. Phulz Australia Director, April Dai, believes that Adventure racing provides one of the best proving grounds for this new technology, in its ability to prove itself as a beneficial navigational tool and a potentially lifesaving product.

The new technology is being implemented in all BlackHeart Events Adventure Races from April 1 this year.

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