Manually timing drills and analyzing results takes up valuable hours—time that could be spent coaching. With Sportreact’s "Scan and Start" wristbands, data collection is instant. Athletes wear their bracelets, and every start is recorded automatically. No manual timing. No extra scores handling. All results are saved directly to each athlete’s profile. Key metrics appear instantly in your Sportreact PLUS app, ready for you to view and create custom reports. The easiest way to track sprint, agility, and cognitive progress. Read more to see how it works!
Scan and Start bands allow coach to instantly connect athlete's identity to the Sportreact system during each drill, enabling hands-free timing and automated data collection.
How Scan and Start Works?
1) Seamless Athlete Identification
Each athlete wears an NFC bracelet containing a unique identifier, which is linked to their athlete profile in the Sportreact app.
2) Touch to Start
At the start line, the athlete taps their NFC wristband on an NFC reader, instantly linking their identity to the rep.
3) Automated Timing
As athlete passes through the laser timing gates, the system automatically starts the timer, capturing their start, split and finish times.
4) Data Capture & Auto-calculations
All data is seamlessly recorded and saved to athlete's profile. Sportreact system saves total/split times, and calculates velocity, acceleration, force and power in real time.
5) Instant Analytics
Coaches can immediately review results in all metrics, compare performances, and monitor trends—all in the Sportreact PLUS.
Explore how "Scan and Start" technology enhances both daily training and large group seasonal testing.
1) Monitor Progress During Everyday Training
With Scan and Start bands, tracking athlete's performance becomes a seamless part of daily training. By wearing the bracelets during each session, the Sportreact system automatically logs results and calculates critical performance metrics such as velocity, acceleration, power, and force for each rep.
How Do NFC Bands Improve Training Efficiency?
Rep-to-rep comparisons
Track total time, reaction time, velocity, power, and force for every drill your athlete performs, with minimum, maximum, and average scores for precise evaluation.
Quick normative data benchmarking
Instantly see how each athlete's results compare to relevant normative data for their sport, level, age, and sex.
Progress monitoring
Identify individual and team-wide trends, view graphs for easier visualization, and track progress and decline in detail with calculated percentage change rates.
Athlete comparisons across drills and metrics
Evaluate athletes based on their specific skills, drills, and performance metrics.
Quick rankings
Access leaderboards for each drill and compare individual performances against norms, or team averages in every skill and metric.
By continuously collecting data with Sportreact, you don't have to rely on periodic testing to evaluate progress. Instead, every drill becomes an opportunity for assessment, ensuring that training remains optimized.
2) Run Efficient Seasonal Performance Testing
Testing multiple teams or a large number of athletes at the beginning and end of each season can be challenging. Coaches often face issues such as timing errors, athlete management, and the inefficiency of manually recording and inputting results—leading to lost or misattributed data.
Sportreact has already simplified this process with its advanced laser timing gates and in-depth analytics. Now, data collection becomes even faster with the integration of NFC bands.
How to Quickly Test Large Groups of Athletes with Scan and Start Bands?
Before the test, the coach uploads athlete data and links each wristband to a profile. At the start, the athlete taps their bracelet on the NFC reader, connecting their name to the drill. As they run through the gates, the system automatically tracks their performance and records the results—no manual timing or input needed.
How Do NFC Bands Improve Testing Efficiency?
Hands-Free Timing
Timing is completely automatic. Coaches can focus on what’s happening on the field and analyze performance instead of managing stopwatches or manually recording results.
Accurate Athlete Identification
Ensures each athlete's results are correctly linked to them, eliminating misattributed data.
Granular Data Collection
All results and saved, and performance metrics are calculated in real time (velocity, acceleration, power, and force).
Data Visualisations
All recorded results, scores and metrics can be viewed on graphs and other visualisation options, allowing quick assessments and instant feedback to athletes, parents or colleagues.
Instant Benchmarking
Sportreact app allows for quick comparisons of athlete-to-athlete performance in multiple leaderboards, as well as comparing individual results to normative data, or team/group averages.
What Do You Need to Faster Collect Large Group Data?
Sportreact’s system is built on four key technologies:
Sportreact System
Up to 12 pods perform as laser timing gates and/or reaction lights.
Sportreact PLUS app
Premium app extension stores detailed athlete data, calculates performance metrics, tracks trends, and enables athlete-to-athlete and team-wide comparisons.
Scan and Start Bands
Each athlete wears a wristband containing a unique identifier. Each bracelet can be quickly assigned or reassigned to different athletes as needed. To reassign, simply press it on the Scan and Start reader while in setup mode within the athlete's profile.
Scan and Start Reader
Positioned at the start line, the reader registers the athlete’s ID upon contact and begins tracking their performance.
How to Set Up Testing with Sportreact and Scan and Start Bands?
Set Up the Timing Pods – The coach places laser timing gates at the start and end of the testing area, adding intermediate gates if needed.
Select a Test Template – Using the app, the coach chooses from multiple pre-built testing templates (e.g., 10-40 yard sprint, T or Y-agility test, 5-10-5 Illinois and much more).
Athlete Identification – Each athlete wears a Scan and Start bracelet, which they tap on a Scan and Start device before starting their run. This instantly links their identity to the test.
Automated Data Capture – As the athlete moves through the gates, the system automatically records split times, velocity, force, and power metrics.
Instant Analytics & Insights – The coach can immediately access real-time data, compare performances, and track trends at the athlete, group, or session level.
Show On Big Screen Leaderboard – All results can be displayed not only in the app but also on larger screens with a customizable design.
The Benefits: Why Sportreact system?
By integrating laser timing system, advanced in-app analytics and NFC bands for instant identification, Sportreact system transforms performance tracking into a subtle and effortless process.
Whether you use it for daily training or large-scale testing, Sportreact provides:
Unmatched accuracy – Eliminates human error in timing and result recording.
Real-time insights – Delivers instant performance data for better decision-making.
Seamless automation – Saves time and effort while improving efficiency.
Enhanced athlete development – Ensures training is adaptive, measurable, and optimized for continuous improvement.
With Sportreact, every session becomes an opportunity for smarter training adjustments, and long-term athlete success. Book a demo here and see it in action!
MATEO KOVACIC
Meet Mateo: a kinesiotherapist and former elite track and field athlete, brings a wealth of experience to his writing. A multiple-time national champion in the 400 meters and a European 4x400 relay competitor, he now channels his expertise into coaching youth athletes in speed development.
Mateo shares insights on training techniques, athlete development, and his journey from the track to coaching.
