A system is disclosed for detection of whether a movable object, such as a
sports object, e.g. a football or an ice hockey puck, has passed a flat
plane in space, such as a goal plane defined e.g. as a vertical plane
extending from a goal line or a horizontal plane defined by the upper rim
of the basketball basket The system comprises a plurality of pairs of
antennas arranged along the periphery of the flat target plane, the two
antennas of each of said pairs being arranged with a mutual displacement
in the direction perpendicularly to the flat target plane, radio wave
emitter means arranged in the movable object and/or each antenna, and
means for receiving the radio waves from the radio wave emitter means and
provide an output accordingly arranged in each antenna and/or in the
movable object, the system further comprising processing means to receive
and process said output together with a predetermined set of conditions
and providing a resulting output if the set of conditions are fulfilled
so as to determine whether the movable object passes the flat target
plane.