# USM (Ultimate Sports Manager) > USM Boarding is LED perimeter software for football stadiums, arenas and events: it plays sponsor advertising on perimeter boards, fascias and ribbons. USM Live, on the same engine, runs the big screen and is in development. Built and supported by Maxamaze BV (Opwijk, Belgium), which also installs and operates LED at venues. Every page below is rendered on the server, so none of it needs JavaScript. This file is generated from the same route table as the sitemap, so it cannot fall behind the site. The text of the pages and of the manual is also in one file: [llms-full.txt](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/llms-full.txt). Key facts: - USM Boarding is LED perimeter playout software for Windows. It renders through CasparCG and outputs DVI or HDMI to the LED processor, plus NDI. - One licence covers one playout PC and one screen, and grows to nine screens and a backup PC. - Press to wall: 147 ms at the median, measured on a two-screen stadium rig. - Slot transitions are one frame and atomic, with no black between sequences. - A backup PC mirrors the main one all match and takes the wall by itself after about 5 seconds of silence on a 1-second heartbeat. - Proof of play is logged to a hundredth of a second and exported per fixture as PDF or Excel. - Wall sizes in service include 3840 x 1080, 2100 x 120, 6144 x 96, 10460 x 120 and 19584 x 144 pixels. - In service at 6 football grounds (Aberdeen FC, Pittodrie Stadium; Wrexham, Racecourse Ground; Heerenveen, Abe Lenstra Stadion; Anderlecht, Lotto Park; OH Leuven, Den Dreef; Ludogorets, Huvepharma Arena). 5 of them have UEFA-approved LED systems. - Playout needs no internet during an event: after a licence check it keeps running offline for seven days. - Prices are public at https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/pricing, per year or per month, excluding VAT. ## What the product does - [LED perimeter playout software for stadiums](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/): USM Boarding, LED software made in partnership with Maxamaze, plays sponsor banners on the perimeter boards, fascias and ribbons of stadiums and arenas. - [LED screen monitoring for stadiums](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led-monitoring): Watch every cabinet in your LED perimeter: temperature, main and backup cable, input signal. From the playout PC, or a monitoring box that never sleeps. - [LED boarding software for perimeter advertising](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led-boarding-software): What LED boarding software has to do: fit a 19584-pixel wall, rotate sponsors to the second, survive a dead PC mid-match, and prove what aired. - [Football LED software for match day](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/football-led-software): LED software built around a football match: warm-up, line-ups, kick-off, sponsor rotations, added time, half-time, and a report the sponsor accepts. - [Proof of play for LED perimeter advertising](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/proof-of-play): Every banner that reached the wall, logged to a hundredth of a second, with a PDF or Excel report per fixture that a sponsor can audit. - [USM Live: big-screen playout for stadiums](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/usm-live): The big screen, on the same engine as USM Boarding: regions and layouts on one canvas, cued live. In development, in testing at venues, not yet sold. - [Stream Deck control for LED boards: Companion module](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/stream-deck): The free Bitfocus Companion module for USM Boarding: run LED boards from a Stream Deck, with playlists, stingers, goals, the match clock and a panic key. ## Reference - [Stadiums running our LED boarding software](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/grounds): Six grounds across Scotland, Wales, the Netherlands, Belgium and Bulgaria, with what is installed at each: P6, P10 and P12 systems, five UEFA approved. - [RSC Anderlecht: LED perimeter case study](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/grounds/anderlecht): At Lotto Park, getting the LED wall ready for a match went from three hours to twenty minutes, and both ribbons now run in sync frame for frame. - [Aberdeen FC: three LED panel sizes, one wall](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/grounds/aberdeen): Pittodrie's 246.72 m UEFA-compliant LED boarding mixes three panel sizes around 13 gates. How USM Boarding drives it like any other wall. - [SC Heerenveen: LED boarding case study](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/grounds/heerenveen): Two 44-metre LED ribbons and an operating team that asks a lot. The features Heerenveen asked for, now part of USM Boarding. - [LED rental software for events](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led-rental-software): Fifteen events in one season across six countries, six on national television, with each wall as configured: resolution, cabinet count, P6 and P3.9. - [LED perimeter software: how to choose one](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led-perimeter-software): Every perimeter advertising product demos well. The six questions that separate them on a match night, and what to make a vendor prove on your own wall. - [LED playout redundancy: the backup PC](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/redundancy): What happens when the playout PC dies mid-match. A backup that mirrors the main one all game and takes the wall by itself after about five seconds of silence. - [UEFA LED perimeter specification, for software](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/uefa-led-specification): UEFA asks for dual signal servers on UPS, one-screen control, and full control back within 25 seconds of a power loss. What that means for playout software. ## LED perimeter boards, explained - [LED perimeter boards, explained](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led): How LED perimeter boards work, how big to make the artwork, and the rules leagues set for them. Guides and a glossary from the people who run the walls. - [What is an LED perimeter board? How it works](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led/what-is-an-led-perimeter-board): An LED perimeter board, from the cabinets round the pitch to the sponsor file that plays on them: the whole chain, with the equipment named. - [LED perimeter board resolution: artwork sizes](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led/content-size): How big to make artwork for LED perimeter boards: size it in pixels, how the wall is folded into rows, file formats and frame rates. - [LED board rules: animation and flashing by league](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led/animation-rules): What the Bundesliga, UEFA and others allow on LED perimeter boards: animation speed, flashing, white levels and the penalty-kick freeze. - [LED perimeter board glossary](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/led/glossary): The words used around LED perimeter boards, defined plainly: cabinets, receiving cards, pixel pitch, nits, genlock, the fold, sponsor minutes and more. - [LED perimeter artwork template generator](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/tools/led-template-generator): A pixel-exact artwork template and spec for a sponsor’s stretch of LED perimeter, and a numbered, folded map of the whole wall. Free, in your browser. ## Buying it - [LED perimeter software pricing](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/pricing): One licence runs one PC and one screen. Add a screen when the wall grows, add a backup PC when a match cannot stop. Build the setup and the price follows. - [Contact USM: stadium LED software, demo and trial](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/contact): Talk to the people who build USM Boarding. Questions about LED perimeter playout, LED monitoring, a trial on your own wall, or an existing rig. ## Legal - [Licence agreement](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/eula): The end-user licence agreement for USM Boarding, the LED perimeter playout software of Maxamaze BV. - [Privacy notice](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/privacy): What USM Boarding and USM Online record about the people who use them, why, and how long it is kept. - [Data processing agreement](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/dpa): The data processing agreement a club or venue signs with Maxamaze BV, including the security measures in Annex 2. ## Elsewhere - [Operator and technical manual](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/manual/): the full manual, public and needing no account. - [The site in one file](https://ultimatesportsmanager.com/llms-full.txt): the text of the pages above, except the legal ones, and of the manual. - [Maxamaze](https://maxamaze.com/): the parent company, which installs and operates LED at venues.