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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

Editorial

Stadium technology provided support for mass vaccination sites

While the Covid-19 pandemic kept many fans from attending live events the past year, that didn't mean that stadiums stayed empty. After first serving as Covid-19 test sites, since the start of the year many stadiums and arenas across the country lent their parking lots and indoor spaces to vaccination efforts, using the wide-open spaces and already-in-place resources like power,...

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Hollywood Park vaccination site takes care of Los Angeles teachers

When it was finished, the temporary Covid-19 vaccination site for the Los Angeles Unified School District at Hollywood Park used a wireless network that was supported by optical fiber connections. While that sounds straightforward and simple, in this case there's a story behind the story about how the fiber found its way to the vaccination site. At the early March...

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Coors Field: Building a replicable model for parking-lot vaccinations

After a year spent administering systems in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the IT team at the University of Colorado Health system was thrown an outside curveball: With just a few weeks' notice, could they build a network to support a temporary outdoor mass vaccination site? With innovative thinking, some trial and error, and some help from a list...

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Dodger Stadium: Parking-lot cellular provides connectivity for vaccinations

Major League Baseball's third-oldest stadium has served as a stage for the Beatles (1966), Pope John Paul II (1987), and even the National Hockey League's Stadium Series (2014). So in this needs-must Covid-19 era, it was perhaps only logical that Dodger Stadium would re-purpose its sprawling parking complex for Covid testing and vaccinations earlier this year. Using adjacent lots, the...

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Levi’s Stadium: Digital displays and club spaces make vaccinations go smoothly

If you wandered into the Levi's Stadium club spaces during a regular-season Niners game during non-pandemic conditions, you would likely find spots like the United Club and the Yahoo! Fantasy Football Lounge filled with football fans, enjoying the comforts and amenities of a premium seating space. But this spring, those areas were used to serve a different purpose, to provide...

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The ‘magic’ you seek in wireless is ‘Frequency Neutral Networks’

There is a heated debate in the wireless industry; 5G vs. Wi-Fi. Proponents of 5G claim that massive speed increases and ubiquitous coverage will render Wi-Fi networks obsolete. Wi-Fi pundits claim that Wi-Fi has adopted the same technology that underpins 5G using chipsets that cost less because they are burdened by a lighter licensing load from patent holders. 5G proponents...

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