Race-Keeper Releases Performance i-Dash On-board Wireless Dash Display

STERLING, VA (10 May 2010) – Extending the value of its on-board driver development systems, Race-Keeper announces Performance i-Dash, an in-car graphical data display to help drivers monitor and adjust their driving using live performance data during track sessions.

Visit www.race-keeper.co.uk/i-Dash to view the Race-Keeper Performance i-Dash graphical design and data.

Race-Keeper is pleased to partner with Mondello Park, Ireland's finest racing venue. If you're in or near Dublin, Ireland or headed there for vacation or holiday, you must visit! The track celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008; if you want to learn more about the history of Mondello Park, see Mondello Park History.

Mondello Park uses Race-Keeper video data systems to provide video and data for each participant's track sessions, one of which is the Start Line Course, described below.

THE START LINE COURSE

Hi everyone - we've added instructional videos to the Race-Keeper site. Please go to Instructional Videos for six informative and entertaining videos posted by Angus Mackenzie, our Director Product Development. All of the videos are accessible from the links below.

What's Inside the Race-Keeper Kit

Installing the Box and Connecting Power

Installing Microphones and Microphone Options

Camera Installation

Once you've captured your outings with Race-Keeper, you've got piles of data - multiple streams of high-res video, audio, GPS data and sensor readings. Then what?

Play your outings using Race-Keeper Comparo - our software race analysis software - designed with racers in mind, not race engineers. Race-Keeper Comparo takes all of those data sources and presents them to you as a combined experience. You can see all your data, and search through it - with the click of a button.

For the latest version of our software, click here for Race-Keeper Comparo.

This is just the basics, however. What really makes Comparo worthy of its name is the ability to view two outings or laps at once, tied to each other through their GPS data. Seek on a trace or on the map, or even on the video, and both outings will seek to the same point in space. You can instantly compare your braking points and apexes, then play the video through and see exactly what you did differently to gain that extra tenth of a second.

A very quick way to get more data from your vehicle without having to install discrete sensors is to plug into the OBD (on-board diagnostics) port on your vehicle.

The data channels that are available on this port vary between manufacturers but all OBD-II ports support channels such as speed, rpm, throttle position, coolant temperature, intake manifold pressure etc.

Speed data from the OBD-II port is more accurate than GPS speed so whenever OBD-II speed is available, Race-Keeper Comparo uses OBD-II speed data for MPH.

Watch a faster driver, or your own fastest lap in the Race-Keeper Comparo application along side your own video and data and you will quickly see where you can make up valuable tenths of a second on the track:

Once you've completed a track session and loaded the session into Race-Keeper Comparo software, it's time for rapid review and comparison to allow you to get going faster.

Race-Keeper Comparo makes it very simple to review your automatically synchronized data and video. There are four screen areas showing video player, data graph, track map and outing information.

Load a comparison lap or outing and using the Comparo Delta Time calculated channel will instantly show you the corners or straights on the track where there are significant differences in lap time.

Race-Keeper can be configured to automatically (or manually) start and stop recordings.

For example you can configure the system to start recording when your vehicles starts moving, and stop recording 1 minute after the car stops after a driving session.

Auto-start and auto-stop gives you the power to turn on Race-keeper at the start of your day and not have to worry about it all day – all your driving will be automatically recorded.

The system can use a combination of any of the following triggers to control when logging starts and stops:

Race-Keeper Video Data Logger vs. Data Acquisition

We like data acquisition, it’s OK. In fact, our development team is managed by former Pi Research engineers.

We just happen to love video AND data.

Race-Keeper is not a data acquisition product with video and audio strapped on or overlaid as an afterthought. We created Race-Keeper from scratch using cutting-edge technologies designed specifically to synchronize audio, video, and data.

We get lots of questions about which camera angles work best on the race track so we decided to provide some information that will help.

Q: How does lens size affect distance and field of view?
A: A smaller lens value will show a shorter viewing distance and a wide field of view. A larger lens value will allow for a longer viewing distance but a narrower field of view.

For example, a 2.5mm focal length lens produces a wider angle (155deg approx) than a 6.0 mm focal length lens (120deg approx)

Front View Camera