Pelican Racing can Geocast to your mobile or PC, LIVE!
Now you can watch your friends go sailing live from the comfort of your living room!
Pelican Racing and Inca-X have been working hard over the last 18 months to pioneer and test the latest geocasting technology via mobile phones.
This new and exciting software enables anyone around the world to have a front seat view via the internet into one of the most competitive sailing fleets in the world’s. The benefits for this idea are endless, including race committees and protest committees, sailing projects, search and rescue, sponsors, sailing schools, as well as friends and families.
Pelican Racing has worked with Inca X to provide the live stream from their boat. The technology underpinning the solution enables a retail mobile phone, in this case an HTC Touch Diamond, to stream live footage to a website. Anyone interested in sailing can visit the website to see not only a video stream but also plot the position of the Pelican Racing SB3 directly to Bing maps. As this is a Beta test for the technology, the team has not had the luxury of preparing a marine version of this popular online map but, assuming a successful trial, is optimistic that the concept will be refined for future regattas.
Director of Pelican Consulting, crewmember Ian Gilmour, explains why they agreed to trial the technology for Inca X: "I've known Phil Bishop at Inca X for a long time. In the history of high tech, only Q (of James Bond fame) comes more highly rated. Pelican mostly works in developing risk management technology for investment banks, but this retail application is too much fun to ignore."
Phil Bishop, CTO for Inca X, explains a little more about the application: "Our Live Media GPS application allows anyone to broadcast their current activities directly from a mobile phone. The broadcasts are directly linked to Virtual Earth so that your precise location and movements can be mapped. You can share all this information with your chosen audience, be it public or private.
"Working with Pelican Consulting at Cowes Week is fantastic opportunity for us to really put the software through its paces under challenging conditions. Live Media GPS has been designed to be straight forward to install and use and is fully supported by Inca X. We're interested to know what people think of it."
To follow the progress of the team during Skandia Cowes Week, visit the link below from 1000 each day to watch one of the most entertaining fleets around, and enjoy the full race from the comfort of your home or office. After the regatta highlights of the racing will be edited and hosted on YouTube.
For more information on how we can Live video and track your regatta, please contact us on 01983 201581 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
