We were delivering results instantaneously, literally almost as fast as runners were crossing the line. It meant that the organizers didn't have to create a chute system to score the runners. The chip does it all. And everyone will get their adjusted time and a halfway split from the chip. A race could give runners all their 5-K splits for example.
Runners can use the chip to archive their performances over a number of years.
We heard there were some scoring problems at the end of the Boston Marathon. Yes, but it wasn't the chip. We turned all the information over to another provider whose software froze for a couple of hours. It was a bad situation, but it wasn't the chip. The Boston organizers have acknowledged that the chip worked perfectly.