GPS/GLONASS control system for yacht racing competitions

10.09.2021

Problem

The Cruising and Racing Yacht Association is a regional public fitness and sports organization in St. Petersburg. The association strives to popularize the cruising-racing class of yachts.

While holding water competitions, the organization faced some problems:

• Lack of a single service for receiving the necessary information and tracking the location of yachts during the competition.
• Spectators could not keep track of the competition if yachts were not in sight or if a spectator could not arrive at the venue.
• There were controversial moments when determining the winner.

Solution

The Wialon partner, Geoservice from Russia, offered a flespi-based solution that enables yacht tracking in real time.

• They developed a special monitoring service and integrated it with the association’s official website. The service is a live map showing the location of competing yachts, their routes, speed, up-to-date weather information, etc. Now, anyone can track the movement of regatta participants during the competition.
• Sailing yachts were equipped with Teltonika FMB202 water-resistant trackers, which ensure the transmission of GPS data to the system.
• Within the solution, flespi is responsible for consolidating telematics data and transferring it to the interface using REST API.