![]() ![]() A few of the teams have had some capability to transmit via wi fi to their chase boat, reproducing the data on the yacht dashboard on the coach boat. No one is more keen to get back on the water They bounced back in 2019 (main picture) to take a second world title but it hurts badly that for the last three years in a row Platoon has ended the Super Series overall runners-up. It may not be as powerful as some other packages but the timeframe is much shorter, which makes it super-friendly for crews trying to move forward as fast as possible in the limited time they have available,’ says Witt.Ī spot of bother (below) for defending TP52 world champions Platoon at the 2018 worlds in Cascais – for one of this circuit’s most consistent performers it is fair to say that this particular error-strewn title defence did not go to plan, with the German team ending the week down in sixth overall. We tried to take the path of making it simple. ‘I think what we have now is unique in terms of the short timeframe and it being a web-based app. ![]() So after the video player app Njord built the current web-based analytics platform, where the teams now upload their log files and, after a bit of editing to cut to the key periods, they have their reports – of a similar quality – within four or five minutes, with a link that can be sent back to the team. ![]() PDF files from log reports had an awful lot of good info but it took a long time to get it all into a usable report.’ Plus many other improvements were possible with regard to the existing systems, mostly in terms of speed. But there was much more to do with the data, overlaying numbers and reports. ‘Team Phoenix used and liked the first prototypes. From hitting the dock to walking to the hotel to debrief at, say, seven. ‘The core of this app initially was to get it all done quickly, so the coach would not have to do too much work before being able to debrief. You load all the separate media streams that you have, drone footage, onboard GoPros and video, plus photos from the coach boat – then it is all about lining it up on a common timeline so you can get it all synced nicely, also with the log file for the day. ‘First of all we did a video player targeted at visual debriefing. ‘When the Phoenix team came looking I flew straight to Puerto Portals in 2018 to see what they were doing… Straightaway I said, “Hey, I can see why this sucks, let me see how I can do it better,”’ grins the young German. Witt is a highly talented, approachable and pragmatic young software engineer and entrepreneur who trained at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, near Berlin. ![]() Njord was originally seeded by Plattner and driven by the Phoenix teams. Now they can run tests when boats line up together to see real-time averages of all the key variables, highlight differences and get live updating VMG gain/loss analysis. Previously, according to Njord’s Witt the old system would reproduce only one boat’s data. This now allows two boats to line up and the coaches in the coach boats to see all of the live boat data in real time. In Cape Town Quantum Racing and Platoon as well as Plattner’s Phoenix teams all utilised Njord’s new live analytics product. The German-based company, led by Jonas Witt, grew from SAP co-founder Plattner’s own dissatisfaction for what he saw available when he and his daughter Tina started working up the two Phoenix TP52s in 2018. The build-up to Cape Town also saw the next step forward for Njord Analytic’s newest suite of advanced performance analysis tools. Local knowledge, smart, confident sailing and the benefit of a good couple of weeks of two-boat training and testing all played a role in Plattner’s well-deserved second overall. It was appropriate that Hasso Plattner and the home Phoenix team did so well at the first, and so far only, 52 Super Series event of the season, the Odzala Discovery Camps Super Series V & A Waterfront Cape Town Regatta. Once a software engineer always a software engineer. ![]()
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