When you spend more than $5 Billion building a revolutionary-looking new sports and entertainment venue, it’s a good bet that the technology found inside would be the best that could be found. What’s truly innovative at the new SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles is not just the quality and functionality of the technology’s pieces and […]
Innovation and experience leads the technology development at Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium
As befits its futuristic appearance, the new home of the newly named Las Vegas Raiders is also fitted with the latest in fan-facing technologies, deployments that will have to wait a bit before their potential can be realized. Though the $2-billion, 65,000-seat stadium “officially” opened on Sept. 21 with a 34-24 Raiders victory over the […]
Pandemic planning puts focus on venue entry, concessions
As some venues take baby steps forward in allowing limited fan attendance at events, for most venues the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are forcing owners and operators to take a longer look at the technologies and procedures that can help provide safer situations for large crowds inside public spaces for the foreseeable future. […]
Pac-12, Mountain West move to resume football seasons; Notre Dame, Tennessee Titans see outbreaks
Citing the availability of better, more rapid testing for Covid-19 infections as a main changing point, the Pac-12 conference last week announced it would “resume its football, basketball and winter sport seasons,” with football games possibly taking place starting Nov. 6. While the announcement on the conference website noted that “the football season may now […]
Big Ten votes to start football season in late October
“We’re in a better place, regardless of how we got here or how painful it was during the time we waited to get this moment,” Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said. “That’s all behind us. What’s beautiful is that we have a process and protocols in place that’s based on science and based on […]
Montreal Impact picks Aruba for new Wi-Fi network at Saputo Stadium
When fans are allowed back into Saputo Stadium, home of Major League Soccer’s Montreal Impact, at some future point they will be able to connect to a new Wi-Fi network using gear from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “Though the pandemic has caused us to have to delay the start of our home game […]
