The principles behind the unit are very simple, requiring only two major components, maybe one depending on the initial financing.
The Hoop-Tec comes with a wrist-mounted transmitter and a rim- mounted or floor mounted receiver
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The receiving unit is a directional motion detector that signals that the basketball or motion has interfered with the invisible light source from the transmitter.
This interference gets recorded in the computer as a dgital pulse or in basketbll terms, a point. The wristband processor keeps track of shots taken (patent-pending) and sends a pulse to the receiver. The computer has to perform a simple averaging calculation based on the number initially set or entered by the player.
Since the computer knows the initially entered number and the shots taken, it is just a matter of generating a numeric answer.
The transmitter also keeps track of the shots that did not go through the basket, these pulses get recorded or logged as a numeric one, but still remains as part of the equation and sum total.
The registers can be reset or cleared from the receiver and the monitoring process starts over again.
