User identification and tracking system for artificial cave obstacle course

An artificial cave obstacle course that can have more than one user in the course concurrently, each respective user wearing a respective user identifier that can be used to wirelessly uniquely identify that respective user;

• the course including:
• a plurality of artificial speleothems that each respective user should avoid contacting as that respective user traverses the course;
• contact detection means associated with each of the speleothems for detecting that a respective user has contacted that speleothem and for producing a contact detection output signal in response to detection of such contact;
• a respective user detector adjacent to each respective one of the speleothems and having a respective broadcast signal reception area that includes said respective speleothem for wirelessly detecting the respective user identifier of a respective user who is within the respective broadcast signal reception area of that respective user detector when the contact detection means associated with that respective speleothem has detected user contact with that speleothem, and for producing a user identification output signal indicative of that respective user identifier so that the user identification output signal identifies the respective user having that respective user identifier as a particular user responsible for contacting that respective speleothem;
• and
• means for using the contact detection output signal and the user identification output signal to display for users who have exited the cave that contact was made with a respective speleothem and which particular user was responsible for that contact;
• wherein:
• the broadcast signal reception area of each respective user detector adjacent to each respective speleothem excludes at least some other speleothems that are adjacent to at least some other user detectors.

An artificial cave obstacle course that accommodates more than one user in the course concurrently, each respective user wearing a respective user identifier that can be used to wirelessly uniquely identify that respective user;

• the course including:
• a plurality of user detectors distributed throughout the course, each user detector wirelessly detecting users in an associated respective one of a plurality of reception areas adjacent to that user detector and outputting to a central processor signals identifying any users detected in the reception area of that user detector;
• and
• a display outside the course and at least partly controlled by the central processor for providing an image of a map of the course with an icon for each respective user at a location on that map corresponding to the respective reception area in which each respective user has been detected at a given time.