Covid compliant markouts

[Jivemaster]

Next year (2021), if we are still trying to get punters to socially distance there will be much more to worry about than a few ticket sales. This year (2020) we may get some value from trying to enforce some distancing.

[Ynot]

Next year (2021), if we are still trying to get punters to socially distance there will be much more to worry about than a few ticket sales. This year (2020) we may get some value from trying to enforce some distancing.

Actually if an outdoor venue does repeat events on the same site with the same layout I suspect there'll be a need very quickly for re-marking within a very short timescale, so getting that grass re-done time and again will be much easier with a robotic 'friend'...

[gareth]

Domain registered 05/08/20. 1 job done? Specialists?

"Part of MLE Pyrotechnics" so my guess is a company looking to branch out as a lot of their previous work (like many others') has dried up...

 

The guy who owns MLE has set up quite a few 'sister companies' over the years. He bought some Kvant lasers and set up a company to rent those out. He bought out the company who used to supply the PA systems for their outdoor events. He bought some high-end drone kit and set up an aerial photography/videography company. There's another company which deals with the firing system which they manufacture. Yet another one which encompasses the retail fireworks side of the business. The 'robot markout' venture is the latest in a substantial portfolio of companies.

[Jivemaster]

So it may be, but if you need a plot marked out for a covid compliance plan that may be a tool to help someone.

[matx1982]

Someone directed me to this post. Good to see there is some discussion about our new service.

We've been busy with enquiries and some jobs booked in - it was an investment made to enable a solution we needed in house for our own events. That is how all of our in house stuff starts.

 

I too made the mistake of thinking - "just use a push around machine", then when actually trying to look at the specifics of doing the job realised it was a complete non-starter. There is also significant value in being able to change and adapt events (covid or no-covid) going forward. Print and tweak your site map year on year per say.

 

Hopefully we can help many other events. If anyone runs an event and wants a quote (or a football pitch) just shout!

 

Mat

Edited August 21, 2020 by matx1982

[Ynot]

Always good to hear from the 'horse's mouth'........

:P

 

 

 

[TomHoward]

We have many grass marked cricket / rugby / tennis / athletics / running tracks at work and a team of groundskeepers who are very efficient and accurate at marking them out with tapes, pegs, string and push along machines - we had a demo of a GPS system a few years ago which at the time was not very successful, I’m sure they have improved but I wouldn’t write off the experienced ground guys either.

[Jivemaster]

A football pitch can usually be re painted to the old lines or re-marked using the string that the grounds keeper has in the store. IF this system can mark out with accuracy a unique design from CAD to grass with GPS accuracy then it's good, If it can be left alone to do the job it saves on man hours too, maybe it can be left alone to mark out at night when the field is only lightly populated.

 

It's my opinion that shows successfully run this year will have a future, shows that restart in 2021 or 2022 or after covid is fully over will have a big hurdle to climb to restart.

 

 

Covid has changed everything. It's also changed a lot of people who have permanent illness as a result of covid infection. Expect people to lose driving licenses due to covid induced multiple heart attacks, expect people to have loss of memory due to covid induced strokes. All that among the survivors, we already know that people have died -maybe taking unique skills with them.

[Stuart91]

maybe it can be left alone to mark out at night when the field is only lightly populated.

 

It would be a great target for hackers. Make it draw a giant phallus instead of whatever it's supposed to.

 

 

It's my opinion that shows successfully run this year will have a future, shows that restart in 2021 or 2022 or after covid is fully over will have a big hurdle to climb to restart.

 

Good point. Momentum is everything, and people's memories are short.