MARATHON ORGANIZERS FIND IT EASIER TO FOOT THE BILL An RFID solution provides the Los Angeles Marathon with a highly accurate timing method. Background The Los Angeles Marathon is one of the USA ’s premier marathons, an event that attracts an annual 20,000-plus participants to test their footwork in sunny California. Challenge Time is of the essence for all runners – and essential information is equally important, whether they’re breaking world records or striving for a personal best. While many race organizers have implemented RFID technology to achieve large-scale reads, it’s been a challenge to uniformly position RFID tags on runners to separate times with split-second accuracy. Solution Before the race, participants bend a plastic RFID tag into a D-shaped form to secure it at the top o

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