Stoppomat
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The Stoppomat is a time measure system for athletes.
and Austria
. The Swiss Trophy, since 2003, uses three mobile plants at nine different locations. Units have been used at Grossglockner and on Albulapass for years.
The first plant in Germany is on the Höchsten, which is, at 833 meters of altitude, the highest point in the District of Lake Constance
. The start area is at 499 meters above sea level. sl
in the Schönemühle at Deggenhausertal Urnau | Urnau, the target column to 830 meters at Illmensee | Glashütten.
The start house and the mountain station were planned in the spring of 2006 by the cycling club RSV Seerose e.V. from Friedrichshafen
, built and put into operation. On the 8.2-kilometer-long stretch, 360 meters of elevation must be overcome to the summit. The course record is held by the cyclist Jörg Ludewig of Team Wiesenhof-Felt with 16:09 minutes. This represents an average speed of 30.46 kilometers per hour.
The main event at the plant is the annualLightweight Uphill. With 560 participants in 2006 and 620 participants in 2007, the competition is currently Germany's biggest cycling time trial. In the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, cyclists used the facility approximately 11,800 times to document their training times or entwine
permit. Currently cyclists, runners, walkers, skaters and bicyclists are managed in different categories. Each year 22,000 athletes use the Stoppomat system. About 55% use the registration and each one of them is coming 2.5 times each year.
Second generation
Plants were put into operation at the following locations:
To obtain the average of a series of ratings, an investment analysis software generates and sets this ratio to 100. The personal journey is set in relation to plant ratios and then added up in the series standings. Thus, the athlete can increase overall ratings by the use of multiple route.
History
The Stoppomat was devised in Germany in 2005. The first installation was put in service in the spring of 2006. Similar devices have been manufactured in SwitzerlandSwitzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. The Swiss Trophy, since 2003, uses three mobile plants at nine different locations. Units have been used at Grossglockner and on Albulapass for years.
The first plant in Germany is on the Höchsten, which is, at 833 meters of altitude, the highest point in the District of Lake Constance
Lake Constance
Lake Constance is a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps, and consists of three bodies of water: the Obersee , the Untersee , and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein.The lake is situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps...
. The start area is at 499 meters above sea level. sl
Sea level
Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...
in the Schönemühle at Deggenhausertal Urnau | Urnau, the target column to 830 meters at Illmensee | Glashütten.
The start house and the mountain station were planned in the spring of 2006 by the cycling club RSV Seerose e.V. from Friedrichshafen
Friedrichshafen
This article is about a German town. For the Danish town, see Frederikshavn, and for the Finnish town, see Fredrikshamn .Friedrichshafen is a university city on the northern side of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria.It is the district capital of the...
, built and put into operation. On the 8.2-kilometer-long stretch, 360 meters of elevation must be overcome to the summit. The course record is held by the cyclist Jörg Ludewig of Team Wiesenhof-Felt with 16:09 minutes. This represents an average speed of 30.46 kilometers per hour.
The main event at the plant is the annualLightweight Uphill. With 560 participants in 2006 and 620 participants in 2007, the competition is currently Germany's biggest cycling time trial. In the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, cyclists used the facility approximately 11,800 times to document their training times or entwine
Hierarchy
A hierarchy is an arrangement of items in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another...
permit. Currently cyclists, runners, walkers, skaters and bicyclists are managed in different categories. Each year 22,000 athletes use the Stoppomat system. About 55% use the registration and each one of them is coming 2.5 times each year.
Handling
The device enables the documentation of run results for cyclists.- The athlete draws a card from the card dispenser and labeled.
- For the start timing the card is stamped with the current time.
- The card is later stamped at a destination.
- The athlete may leave the card in a designated box. This is regularly emptied and the data are entered into a database. The results then are available on a Web site for retrieval.
Components of Stoppomat
- The per utilityUtilityIn economics, utility is a measure of customer satisfaction, referring to the total satisfaction received by a consumer from consuming a good or service....
and trademarkTrademarkA trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...
facility consists of a metal casing and at least two radiocontrolled clocks. It can stamp time cards in various formats. - The documented start, intermediate and end times can be further processed.
- The Stoppomat equipped with electronics with printing function, a stopwatch with a DCF77DCF77DCF77 is a longwave time signal and standard-frequency radio station. Its primary and backup transmitter are located in Mainflingen, about 25 km south-east of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is operated by Media Broadcast GmbH , on behalf of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany's...
radio receiver and an independent power supply for a buffer period of one week. - It is constructed to be resistant to vandalismVandalismVandalism is the behaviour attributed originally to the Vandals, by the Romans, in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable...
, rainRainRain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface...
and temperature extremes. - Based on the LinuxLinuxLinux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
input and output software integrates classify numerous filtering options to sports scores, by age, sex, origin, association membership, shows, zip codes and sports equipment.
Second generation
- The Stoppomat the second generation is characterized by the integration of donor cards, cards objection and a writing desk.
- The case has been supplemented by a carbon housing for the stamp unit.
- Start-like target station are protected by a shelter from excessive weather.
Inventor and Developer
Inventor and developer of stoppOmat is Roland Hecht, who lives at the lakeside of lac of constance. Developer of the datasystem, homepage and valuesystem is Dr.Th.Bischof also living at the lakeside of lac of constance. Both are holding all right of label and development.TOUR Stoppomat Challenge
Since winter of 2007/2008 several new plants were built, which are operated by volunteer work of sports clubs and by local sponsors. Since the introduction of a nationwide seriesTOUR Stoppomat-Challenge in 2008, 15,000 athletes participated.Plants were put into operation at the following locations:
- Hoher Meissner (Werra-Meißner-Kreis)
- Kalmit (Haardt) | Kalmit (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse)
- Königsstuhl (Odenwald/Germany) | Königsstuhl (District of Heidelberg)
- HirschhornHirschhorn (Neckar)Hirschhorn is a small town in the Bergstraße district of Hesse, Germany, and is known as "The Pearl of the Neckar valley”. Hirschhorn is a climatic health resort situated in the Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald.- Location :...
(Landkreis Bergstrasse) - PfullingenPfullingenPfullingen is a town in the district of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 3 km southeast of Reutlingen at the foot of the Swabian Alb....
(Reutlingen) - Höchsten (Bodenseekreis)
- Gauernitz (Meissen)
- ParcentParcentParcent is a village in the Pop Valley of La Marina Alta in the Alicante Province, which is located in the Valencian region of Spain. Parcent has a population of about 1100 and is about one hour's drive north of the city of Alicante, and about an hour's drive south of the city of Valencia.It...
(Alicante / Spain) - SuderburgSuderburgSuderburg is a municipality in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 11 km southwest of Uelzen.Suderburg is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Suderburg.- Municipal divisions :...
/ ( Lüneburger Heide )
To obtain the average of a series of ratings, an investment analysis software generates and sets this ratio to 100. The personal journey is set in relation to plant ratios and then added up in the series standings. Thus, the athlete can increase overall ratings by the use of multiple route.
External links
- home to the builders
- home to the result list
- ARD television report on the Stoppomat, 20 September 2007
- call for TOUR Stoppomat Challenge 2008, a story of StoppOmat by Thomas Musch, tour-magazin.de of 28 April 2008
- HR radio interview on her maiden voyage on Stoppomat Hoher Meissner / Werra professional cycling with Dirk Muller, 3 June 2008