What are you organising?

Mass participation:
a course is not a venue.

Running, cycling, swimming, triathlon — 13 miles of city streets have no house network to lean on. We build route-wide connectivity and run timing, tracking, apps and medical systems on top of it, proven at the world's biggest half marathon.

The pressure points

What makes this kind of event hard

No infrastructure to plug into

A course crosses city centres, parks and coastline. Every timing point, medical post and commentary position needs connectivity built from scratch — and it all comes down again on Monday.

Results have to be right first time

Timing, live tracking and results feed the moments participants and families actually remember. There are no second takes on a finish line.

Safety can't share a congested network

Tens of thousands of spectators saturate the mobile networks. Medical, event control and safety systems need their own protected paths.

What we deploy

How NovaConnect runs it

344connectivity points across the Great North Run course
63,000runners timed, tracked and kept safe
15+years running the world's biggest half marathon
55 kmof ultra course connected by satellite
Proof

Where we've done it

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