Los Angeles Marathon organizers turn to RAIN RFID for timing solution The LA Marathon is a massive logistics undertaking (requiring among other things, the closure of 12 freeway on-ramps, 4,053 city barricades, 40,000 no parking signs, 55,000 gallons of water, 9,500 gallons of Gatorade®, and 2,500 trash cans). With tens of thousands of runners to keep track of, organizers needed to facilitate a simple setup, quick clean up, and as few suppliers to manage as possible. And most importantly, they needed a way to accurately time all participants. A common race timing method uses a plastic-encased, low-frequency tag. These tags are manufactured independently of other race identication materials such as bib numbers, requiring extensive pre- race eort to match each timing tag to the entrant’s i

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