Greaves Motorsport, a participant of the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours in France, has deployed Wavestore 360 degree panoramic cameras in its pit area to allow the company’s senior operations and technical personnel to analyze the team’s performance when its cars stop for refueling, tire changes or repairs. Greaves Motorsport partnered with Caterham Motorsport at the racing event this year.
Greaves Motorsport, a participant of the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours in France, has deployed Wavestore 360 degree panoramic cameras in its pit area to allow the company's senior operations and technical personnel to analyze the team's performance when its cars stop for refueling, tire changes or repairs. Greaves Motorsport partnered with Caterham Motorsport at the racing event this year.
The video captured by the 360-degree cameras will be recorded and stored on a Wavestore recording system which will allow the extraction of individual video clips showing activity during each pit stop .The system will be put through its paces at the Official Le Mans Test day on 17th June and then during the whole of the 24 hour race which starts at 15.00 CET on Saturday 22nd June.
The use of 360 degree technology can significantly reduce the number of cameras needed to monitor an area without any blind spots. The ability to create a video clip of a moving object, an individual or a group of people is one of the features provided by Wavestore's 360 recording and de-warping capability. Operators can view de-warped images created from the recorded images and control a ‘virtual' PTZ function to track activity and save video clips of an unlimited number of individual events captured in the camera's entire field of view.
“We have the team, the car and the drivers to succeed and we know what it takes to win in Le Mans,” said Jacob Greaves, Team Manager, Greaves Motorsport. “We are looking forward to the next few weeks in France and to taking full advantage of the innovative features incorporated into the Wavestore solution, which I am confident will help us in our endeavors to perform to our full potential”.