The GoalControl-4D system monitors all movements on the playing field, focuses on the ball and records its trajectory exactly down to the millimetre as soon as it gets near the goal. After each goal, seven cameras send high-resolution images over a fiber optic network built with MICROSENS components to a central evaluation unit. The challenges for the active network components are correspondingly high: the switches have to work even in the most extreme weather conditions. The fiber optic components from MICROSENS had already demonstrated their reliability during the last world cup and have now also been selected for the new project from GoalControl.
About MICROSENS
Transmitting information via fiber optic connections offers numerous benefits. MICROSENS GmbH & Co. KG recognised this very early on. As one of the pioneers, the company has developed and produced high-performance communications and transmission systems in Germany since 1993. Individually matched to the demands of diverse usage areas and embedded in comprehensive concepts for individual sectors. But, above all, close to the customer. Technical challenges from customer projects are incorporated directly into product development. This way, IP-based automation solutions are created for modern buildings, cost-efficient network concepts for the office and workspace, robust and fail-safe solutions for industrial environments, optical transport systems future-oriented wide area networks and efficient coupling of sites and computer centres.