Stadium and arena owners are hearing the same sales pitch more frequently: Use the Internet of Things to create connected restrooms. The benefits: Save money on utilities like water and electricity. Reduce janitorial headcount and the personnel budget. Give fans and visitors a superior customer experience rather than subject them to less than deluxe environments. Sinks, soap dispensers and other...
Networked restrooms? Podcasts? Concession technology? If you are a longtime Stadium Tech Report reader, you might be wondering what's going on here. But to readers old and new we simply say welcome -- welcome to our new coverage strategy, which is really hitting its stride with this current issue of the Stadium Tech Report. Once again, as we've done now...
In my 11 years of covering the stadium technology marketplace, one thing I found that makes it special is how willing all participants are to share operational information. Since stadiums don't really "compete" against each other like teams do, it makes sense. Nobody in Minnesota is going to lose if someone in Green Bay adopts a best stadium technology idea...
"You have to do screening at the pace of life. If you have to stop, it just doesn't work." Those words, from Mike Ellenbogen, founder and chief innovation officer at the Waltham, Mass.-based Evolv Technology, sum up the company's approach to security screening at stadiums and other large public venues. The old ways, of waiting in line while fans empty...
STR Podcast · Stadium Tech Report: Building the DAS for the future at AT&T Stadium When the building now known as AT&T Stadium opened in 2009, it arguably changed the way the world thought about large entertainment venues. And early on, the building was already well on its way to being one of the leaders in fan-facing wireless networks, with both...
When the building now known as AT&T Stadium opened in 2009, it arguably changed the way the world thought about large entertainment venues. And early on, the building was already well on its way to being one of the leaders in fan-facing wireless networks, with both a cellular distributed antenna system (DAS) and a Wi-Fi network that were both expanded on...