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Stadium Tech Report

January 22nd, 2025

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‘Pay with your face’ program for concessions growing rapidly at Cleveland Browns’ Huntington Bank Field

The practice of using your face to pay for concessions purchases is growing rapidly at the Cleveland Browns' Huntington Bank Field, thanks in part to an expansion of the Browns' facial authentication programs this season. Along with main technology and deployment partners Wicket and Aramark, the Browns' decision to double the number of concession stands using facial authentication technology for...

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Full-stadium Wi-Fi at Neyland Stadium ready for Vols fans in 2024

Step aside, Taylor Swift. If you really want to test your full stadium Wi-Fi deployment, have Peyton Manning escort Dolly Parton out to midfield at a Georgia-Tennessee game at Neyland Stadium, in the heart of Rocky Top country. That's exactly what happened last fall, and thanks to a full-stadium Wi-Fi 6 deployment using gear from HPE Aruba Networking, the new...

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Amazon adds 13 new ‘Just Walk Out’ stadium stores at NFL venues

Retail giant Amazon has added to its total of stadium-specific checkout-free concession stands, with the announcement of 13 new "Just Walk Out" stores in three different NFL venues. Five of those deployments came at Lumen Field in Seattle, making that stadium the current venue with the most Amazon Just Walk Out stores, with 13. The other venues getting new Just...

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Converged core network part of Levi’s Stadium $200 M enhancement plan

Ten years after opening as the first-ever stadium built expressly with fan-facing technology in mind, the San Francisco 49ers' Levi's Stadium announced a list of technology improvements meant to keep the venue at the forefront of the connected- and intelligent-stadium world. One of the biggest parts of the project is a full network upgrade, with a new Cisco hyperconverged core...

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Intuit Dome leaning on facial authentication for ticketing and concession transactions

The Intuit Dome, the new home of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, opened Thursday with a Bruno Mars concert. While team officials are still keeping a tight information lid on the exact specifications of all the technical deployments, some more information about fan-facing technology was made public prior to the stadium-opening event. One feature that had emerged in conversations about...

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