The key component of the On-Pace GPS system is the software installed into each Android device – either smartphone or tablet. Let’s call this device a “cart”. This program continuously reads GPS data and calculates the cart’s position in relation to targets contained in its database. These targets consist of green location, pace-of-play, and hazard waypoints for the hole being played.

To repeat, the targets used by each cart to calculate its position and pace must be stored in its own database. Therfore the course must first be “mapped” with these targets – a collaborative task, easily accomplished with our course mapping tool. Once this is done, a transfer file is automatically generated which is downloaded once into each cart. Using this data, and the GPS input, the calculated yardages and pace-of-play are continuously displayed on each cart and then (if tracking is enabled) are transmitted over the internet to our server.

On our server the data is processed in a way that makes it available from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection. Positions and pace can be tracked in real-time on a digital map, as well as streamed (like stock market quotes) on color-coded tables designed to highlight pace-of-play issues. This same live pace-of-play information, in both summary and detail format, can also be accessed by any cellphone or smartphone.

In other words, the tracking and pace-of-play status of your golf course now becomes accessable, comprehensive and instantaneous.