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Originally Posted by chmconkling
Why did you guys use internet? With our team we just set up a local database and had all info transferred from the tablets via Bluetooth.
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Our initial iteration of the system only stored data on disk on tablets, and then we uploaded later, which certainly worked.
However, we wanted internet access in the stands so we could upload the scouting data directly after each match, rather than have to do batch uploads, say during lunchtime. This let us deliver accurate scouting data to our coaches / driveteam to strategize for qualification matches also.
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Originally Posted by brennonbrimhall
Did your coaches really like the real-time information? Was it really necessary to do that in real-time, or do you think that it you could achieve similar results with updates every 30 minutes or so?
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Realtime data did significantly improve strategizing in qualification matches. Updates every 30 minutes or so probably would have been frequent enough for the data to be useful for qualification matches, but, how do you effectively do a batch upload (legally) every 30 minutes?
If you have 6 tablets, and you need to upload via Wifi, then you need to walk out of the stands, activate someone's hotspot, connect all the tablets to the hotspot, and finally upload, then go back to the stands. For a not quite legal solution, you would still have to activate a hotspot and connect tablets. This process could easily cause you to miss scouting a match... rather than deal with that, we chose the more difficult problem of suppling constant internet access.
That was our logic, and it worked well in St. Louis, but I think we can use the realtime data a lot more effectively this coming year.