Hello my name is Jan-Paul van Es and i’m from The Hague, The Netherlands.
I’ve been working for 25 years in the electronic security business. I have a lot of experience with camera systems and i’m Microsoft MCSE/MCSA/MCITP/MCP trained.
In 2014 i was asked by Wim Bekendam (an international Dutch Agility judge) the help and invent a system to be able to easely review critical situations during the World Agility Championships in the Netherlands.
Until that moment the video grievence system was no more than 4 home handycams in the corner of the arena, taping the event. In case of a dispute, the match had to be stopped, the memory card from the camera where the action hopefully was recorded was replaced and the match restarted. Then check on a PC if they could decide if the judges decision was correct.
The system i came up with had 4 IP network camera’s all connected to a computer to view en replay the videos. The network was connected to an wifi router, so every course we could setup the camera’s with an iPad exactly to the spot where the judge wanted them. Playback and recording happend all at the same time. No more stopping the match. Also it was now possible to look all 4 camera’s synchronised, so the best view on the action could be selected easely.
In 2015 USDAA president Kenneth Tatsch invited me to assist them with the video grievence system for the Cynosport games 2015. USDAA bought the nescessary equipment and i was there to install, program, setup and operate the camera system. The system was connected up to the live broadcasting stream, so during the pause some videos were replayed showing interesting actions frame by frame.
April 2016 The World Agility Championships were back in the Netherlands. This time i installed a 10 camera system, 1 camera static in each corner of the arena, 5 mobile cameras on tripods to get the best angle on the action and 1 PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera. This camera was just an extra in case we missed an important view on an obstacticle. When we didn’t need this extra camera is was set tot auto-tracking. Runners were automatically followed by the camera, without any person controlling the movement. I used special Genetec camera monitoring software to control the playback of events, which proved to be quite helpfull with the many grievences during the championship.
Watch this interview by Andy Hartman on video judging. video is property of http://agilitynews.eu/