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Stadium Tech Report

November 24th, 2024

Paul Kapustka

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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News

Checkout-free ‘drink lane’ with AiFi tech opens at Leicester City stadium

Technology from San Francisco-based AiFi is being used to run a checkout-free "drink lane" concession stand at Leicester City's King Power Stadium, according to the company. In a press release, Levy UK+I (the sports arm of Compass Group UK and Ireland) claimed that the stand was the first checkout-free stadium deployment in Europe. What is unique about the stand at...

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News

Nissan Stadium adding five Zippin checkout-free stores

Nissan Stadium, home of the NFL's Tennessee Titans, will be adding five checkout-free concession stands using technology from Zippin, a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup. According to Zippin and the Titans, the stores will be ready for operation by the NFL preseason games this summer. Zippin, the leader in the checkout-free sports stadium concession stand race, now has 30 stadium stores...

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Feature

Photo Essay: Boston, SF arenas shine during NBA Finals

In addition to the exciting basketball played on the floor, the arenas that hosted the recent NBA Finals lived up to the championship moment, with state of the art videoboards at both San Francisco's Chase Center and Boston's TD Garden leading the technology way for fans lucky enough to have a ticket. Stadium Tech Report field scout (and diehard Warriors...

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Editorial

STR Podcast: How AT&T Stadium rewrote the DAS playbook with its new network

STR Podcast ยท 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...

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