Indeed, a specialized timing team looks after both photo-finish and timing whereby the required equipment is either brought along or was already purchased by the organising authorities. In the latter case, the timing team will make use of this present equipment. Obviously this can be applied to whatever sport. A possible application for example could be the mobilization of a timing team at a respectable bicycle race which takes place once in a year. Basically the customer makes the requirements knowable to Intersoft and on the basis of this information, a tender is made.
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The German sportswear manufacturer adidas had launched an inquiry into possible ways of scientifically selecting the customer's most suited adidas sports shoe in the sporting shop itself. Clearly this has got little or nothing to do with genuine timing activities, yet adidas appealed to Intersoft for the development of such a system. On the basis hereof, a multi-media program determines the right shoe. The various possibilities of footscan in the medical world soon dawned on the developers. Starting from the existing concept, the software was adapted to the desires of physicians, podologists and orthopaedists.