Students Develops New Speed Skating Technology

According to an article on indianasnewscenter.com, a student invention has lead to speed skaters to obtain more accurate readings on their lap times.  

The IPFW students partnered with local speed skaters and developed a radio frequency timing system.  Here is an excerpt from the article on how the technology works:

"Here’s how it works: each racer wears a chip that can be read by the "reader,” so every time the racer crosses the start and finish line, the system picks up their times and stores them automatically."—Rachel Martin and Emily Dwire

The technology chips stores every single time that the skater records per lap.  It allows the speed skaters to look back on every single lap they did in the past and obtain an accurate reading to base their performance off of.  The new technology would allow skaters to see where they rank nationally and if they were able to qualify for nationals.