Detection of the speed of an object passing through a goal plane

A goal apparatus comprising:

• a first goal post having a first sensor located thereon;
• a second goal post having a second sensor located thereon, wherein the first sensor and second sensor form a first sensor pair, and wherein the first goal post and the second goal post form a goal plane;
• and
• a housing having one or more processors stored therein;
• and
• a storage device stored in the housing and communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the storage device having stored thereon logic that, when executed by the one or more processors causes operations to be performed including:
• detecting a through-beam between the first sensor and the second sensor,
• detecting an interrupt in the through-beam between the first and second sensors, and
• responsive to detecting the interrupt:
• determining an object has passed through the goal plane, and
• determining a speed of the object as the object passed through the goal plane by determining a time duration of the interrupt in the through-beam and correlating the time duration of the interrupt with a known size of the object.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon logic, the logic being executable by one or more processors to perform operations including:

• detecting a through-beam between a first sensor and a second sensor of a first sensor pair, the first sensor being located at a first goal post of a goal apparatus, the second sensor being located at a second goal post of the goal apparatus, wherein the first goal post and the second goal post form a goal plane;
• detecting an interrupt in the through-beam between the first sensor and the second sensor;
• and
• responsive to detecting the interrupt:
• determining an object has passed through the goal plane, and
• determining a speed of the object as the object passed through the goal plane by determining a time duration of the interrupt in the through-beam and correlating the time duration of the interrupt with a known size of the object.