Smart Venue
Every screen, pad, and device at the venue speaking to the same tournament engine, live. Part of iMatch's design from the founding documents — and arriving in stages: here is what runs today, and what we're building next.
Running today
Pair an iPad by QR or a 9-character code and it locks to its table: the match queue for that table only, point-by-point scoring for singles and doubles, and a call-operator button. Scoring is offline-durable — a pad that reboots mid-match resumes where it left off.
The digital scoreboard engine keeps every connected client on the same point in real time, and feeds results straight back to the tournament — no publish button, no refresh.
iMatch Manager renders the venue floor map live — every table's state at a glance — with big-screen finals and award-ceremony views ready for a projector. Org admins monitor every paired device across every tournament, with live, idle, and offline presence.
Being built
The venue has been part of iMatch's architecture since the first design document — venues, tables, scoreboards, displays, and device health were modeled before the first line of product code. These are the pieces we're building now, in the open, on the public roadmap.
A realtime tournament dashboard — draws, schedule, standings, live scores — composed for the largest screen in the building.
Purpose-built scoreboard devices on a shared block-and-theme system, so the same live data renders correctly from a 4K wall display down to a court-side unit.
Device management at the club level — naming, assignment, and health across seasons, not just tournaments.
The all-in-one venue-deployed smart device for the iMatch ecosystem: AI hardware-accelerated live streaming, programmable media, and sports intelligence at the venue edge, with the original iMatch Hub role built in — venue operation on the local network with cloud sync. Enterprise-grade redundancy is part of the design: two or more LinaBoxes on one venue network form a production cluster automatically and serve locally.
The open platform
Third-party hardware and software will speak to the venue through a versioned protocol. Partner identity is live today — org-scoped API keys with rotation and revocation. The versioned read and live-subscribe contract, and its published specification, are in progress.
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The operator story, end to end, on the Manager page.
Learn it in the AcademyOperator curriculum, including the pad and the live console.
imatch321.com/academy(opens in a new tab)Watch it land on the roadmapEvery Smart Venue piece ships on the public roadmap first.
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