Gadzooks! all of this in one thingummyjig, brilliant use of advancement in technology. Good work nonya, I like this ease in the "operations." But I wait until there is more refinement in the report archival and accounting modes. As in the report gets filed to the league, the league-end uses some fancy keyword filters to ascertain proper filing of the report, then if no potential for appeal exists, updates the standings, and here's the nub - directly deposits the appropriate fees into the official's business/savings/etc account. However, before all this, if anyone has come across an app that will change the display to show the yellow or red card as required, why, I would be keen in having a dekko.
When we are all 80-something sitting in the nursing home common-room watching the EPL (fine the BPL) on the telly, the referees will be using something like this. p.s. Stay the hell off my lawn.
This is very clearly a conceptual solution looking for a problem. Reminds me of the struggle for NASA to find a pen that would work in space, with zero gravity. They spent a ton of money to come up with a pressurized gizmoid for the astronauts. The Russians used a pencil.
Yeah, except that's a myth. The Russian space program started using the Fisher space pen in 1969... http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
True or not, the point of the myth is that we should recognize that people sometimes go out of their way to apply technology where it yields trivial or even negative marginal value.
I'm developing a new iPhone 4 app. Live satellite view from above. Live FaceTime* view from all the parents and spectators with iPhones on the sidelines. All viewable in real time or replay on the referees' iPhones in case you miss or want to review anything. *FaceTme is used for video calling with iPhone 4s.