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Stadium Tech Report

January 23rd, 2025

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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IoT brings network connectivity to stadium restroom management

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...

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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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The future of stadium security screening

"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...

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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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