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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

Stadium Wi-Fi

News

Update: Payment processing outage leads to free Guinness for Northwestern-Nebraska game at Aviva Stadium in Ireland

UPDATE, 8/31/22: While initial reports from fans who talked to concessions staffers blamed a Wi-Fi outage for the concessions issues at Aviva Stadium last weekend, a report in the Irish News outlet Indepentent.ie talked to the stadium's caterers, Levy UK + Ireland, who pegged the problem as being with the payment-processing provider, not the stadium Wi-Fi. From the report: Levy...

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Editorial

Two weeks left: Time to take the Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!

I know it's a busy time for most sports teams, venues and IT staffs but we have a deadline request: There are only two weeks left for you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey for 2022, so please find a few minutes of your time to complete the survey! Take the survey now! We've given you all kinds of...

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Editorial

A personal request to all venue IT professionals: Please take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, to help your peers!

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...

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Feature

Wi-Fi Scores 100X Data Increase at the Super Bowl over 10 Years for 20X Less Money than 5G

Special to Stadium Tech Report by Chuck Lukaszewski, Vice President and Wireless Chief Technology Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise It is worth taking a moment to celebrate the milestone of 10 full years of very high-density Wi-Fi at the Big Game that was reached at SoFi stadium in February. Since the first VHD Wi-Fi implementation at AT&T stadium in 2011, Wi-Fi...

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Feature

Wrigley Field adds new technology for security, concessions

The National League's oldest ballpark, the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field, has shown the ability to teach other venues about some new technology tricks, as witnessed by Stadium Tech Report in an early June visit. Though the outfield-wall ivy and other trappings never let you forget about Wrigley's heritage, new technologies that include walk-through security screening and optical-scanning concessions checkout terminals...

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