Vislink and Movicom Team Up To Elevate Refcams for Champions Hockey League and Tipsport Liga, Plus Other Sporting Events

HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, June 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vislink Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: VISL), the global leader in live video communications has been building on their successful collaboration with Movicom in providing ‘Refcams’ - helmet-mounted cameras worn by referees - at last year’s Champions Hockey League, Movicom and Vislink continue to expand the line-up of ultra-small wireless wearable cameras for use in live sports production.

The most well-known Refcam kit includes a mini-camera, Movicom’s specially designed and engineered camera mount with Vislink’s IMT Dragonfly wireless transmitter, which can be quickly mounted on almost any type of protective gear, including referees’ preferred personal helmets. The kit weighs just under 7oz/190g and has no external wires which speeds and facilitates mounting and dismounting it. This year’s innovation is the addition of cameras with C-mounts which opens up the lens options for the system – providing higher quality optics and thus better-quality images.

The upgraded kits were again used by the Champions Hockey League this year and their use expanded to the Tipsport Liga for ice hockey in Slovakia.

On the receiving end in the OB Van a Vislink 2 input receiver with H.264 capability is used to process the video signals. The Refcams can be fully painted and controlled in the OB Van from an RCP panel that comes with the kit.

Beyond the standard Refcam kit, Movicom was asked to develop an even lighter/smaller system for summer sports, so Movicom again turned to Vislink’s IMT Dragonfly transmitter technology. The new system, dubbed ‘Earcam’, consists of an Atom mini Air camera mounted on a simple comfortable headband, with the transmitter and battery pack embedded in a belt pack. The system can be employed by officials in sports that may not require head safety equipment such as soccer, field hockey, American football as well as many other sports, including indoor sports like basketball and boxing. “The main goal here was to get right into the action, to capturing the athlete’s emotions in close up, if possible - almost from their point of view.” Said Victor Pakhomov, CEO of Movicom. This pushes the shot options available to directors across the sports gamut, enhancing their ability to tell the game’s and athlete’s story.