BSI captures all the surfing action with its new PTRZ

At the Quiksilver Pro Surfing Championships, recently held in France, BSI deployed its new waterproof PTRZ camera, which it already used in some of the aquatic events at the London Games.

Broadcast Sports (BSI), developer and service provider of wireless cameras, has managed to capture all the excitement of the Quiksilver Pro surf championship with its new PTRZ.

The competition, which is part of the world calendar of the Association of Professional Surfers, took place recently on the Basque-French beaches and was broadcast by Eurosport and Fox Australia, as well as through the website Quiksilverlive.com.

Due to changing weather and navigation conditions, the championship moves along the beach every day looking for the best waves.

A light deployment

For this reason, BSI opted for a light deployment composed of two RF cameras that could be operated anywhere along 10 kilometers of beach.

La compañía también desplegó su nueva cámara PTRZ a prueba de agua, que ya empleó en algunas de las pruebas acuáticas en los Juegos de Londres, y una cámara ENG con enlace. Todas las señales se centralizaron en un Land Rover con cuatro canales con enlaces punto-a-punto.

El Land Rover podría desplazarse según donde se celebraba la prueba llegando incluso a 8 km de distancia desde el control central sin tener así que mover la producción.

Las cámaras PTRZ se montaron sobre en un poste para obtener puntos de vista de la multitud a lo largo de la playa.

These dome-shaped PTRZs offer 1080i high definition with 10x optical zoom 210mm x 165mm. It allows you to collect 360º images continuously, tilting up to 60°.

Both movements and zoom, gain, iris, focus, shutter speed, saturation, and pedestal are remotely adjustable. It uses COFDM wireless encoding in H.264 MPEG-4 and MPEG 1 Layer II with QPSK and 16QAM modulation and operates at 1.4-1.5 GHz or 2.0 GHz-2.5.