Getting ready for global events: how venues prepare to host the world stage
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Editorial
Let’s define ‘Smart’ before spending another $18 Billion on smart stadiums
The "smart stadium" market is projected to grow from $18.1 billion in 2024 to nearly $39.6 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research—a compound annual growth rate of about 14.4 percent. Similar forecasts from other firms paint the same picture: massive spending ahead, driven by demand for IoT infrastructure, immersive fan experiences, and data-driven operations. There's just one problem....
The quiet rise of IP in stadiums, and why it matters now
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Galtronics leadership discuss new stadium hyper-directional antenna focus
Welcome to a special episode of the Stadium Tech Report podcast. We're joined by a team of experts from Galtronics, a company with 40-plus years of history in the high quality RF antenna market. And Galtronics is currently in the process of rolling out an entirely new line of hyper directional cellular antennas that will provide lower cost and lower...
Seneca Mullins discusses AFL’s venue-owned DAS strategy
A year after acquiring DAS Group Professionals (DGP), one of the top providers of design and strategy for big-stadium cellular networks, global telecommunications firm America Fujikura Ltd. (AFL) is seeking to make more of a public name for itself as it advances its venue-owned DAS strategy. Joining us today on the Stadium Tech Report podcast is Seneca Mullins, President of...
Do less, expose more: The AI-powered future of stadium tech
Stadium technologists are expected to be all things to all people, all the time. The result is predictable: swollen stacks of proprietary apps and vendor lock-ins held together by the few people who “understand IT.” If we bring the same habits into the age of AI, we’ll recreate the same mess, only in natural language instead of code. AI’s real...
