Design Woodball Line Detection and Monitoring System: A Preliminary Study

Abstract This paper entails the incorporation of electronics in the sports of woodball. The decisions made by the referees in most sports nowadays are with the use of electronic technologies to assist them. For instance, the goal-line technology in football and the electronic line judge in tennis is some of the recent advances in electronic technologies that have revolutionized sports as we know it. The woodball line detection and monitoring system serves a similar purpose where it assists the referee in making decisions and modernize the sports of woodball. The current woodball sports depend entirely on referees to give out decisions. The line detection technology helps to notify the referee if the woodball is Out of Bounds (OB) whereas the monitoring system notifies the player, referee and the audience whether the gating is successful or not. However, manual assistance from the referee is still needed for starting the play after a successful gating because the player is not allowed to touch the woodball during the entire game.