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Stadium Tech Report

December 26th, 2024

Paul Kapustka

Editorial

Expanding our scope: Welcome to… Stadium Tech Report!

Welcome to the strangest time ever for sports. For venue technology professionals, it’s even tougher, since they need to not just deal with the present but also must plan for the future. And that would be an incredibly uncertain future, with uncertain needs, perhaps fulfilled by untested technologies, which need to be paid for at a time when no money...

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Dickies Arena: Raising the fan experience to the highest level

Without a professional or major college sports team as a main tenant, it’s somewhat of a wonder that Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, got built at all. But once you step inside and attend an event there, the wonder shifts to the sheer excellence that surrounds you, in what may be simply the best-built arena-sized venue, anywhere. It might...

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Editorial

Appetize sees more contact-free concessions for venues going forward

While the timeline for fans returning to large public venues for sports and events is still uncertain, one thing that does seem inevitable is that the future of stadium concessions will see more ways for fans to get food and beverages without human interactions. That’s certainly the view from Appetize, one of the top players in the venue point-of-sale technology...

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Colorado brings Wi-Fi and DAS to Folsom Field

There will be a change in the air at Folsom Field this fall, and not just from the team that new head coach Mel Tucker will lead onto the gridiron. For the first time, the mile-high atmosphere inside the University of Colorado's historic venue will be filled with fan-facing Wi-Fi and cellular signals, thanks to new networks being installed this...

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Super Bowl LIV recap: Big jump in per-device usage fuels record Wi-Fi mark

The big game is back on top of the unofficial Mobile Sports Report single-day Wi-Fi rankings, with a mark of 26.42 terabytes of data used at Super Bowl LIV in Miami, according to figures reported by Extreme Networks. What’s most interesting (to us) about the number is that it was generated in a venue that had approximately 8,000 fewer fans...

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News

JMA invents emergency ventilation system for Covid-19 treatments

JMA, a renowned company in the stadium-wireless sector for its telecom equipment, has spearheaded a joint effort to construct an "emergency" ventilation system for COVID-19 patient treatment. This system involves incorporating existing medical equipment with a specialized mechanical device to support patients' breathing until they can be transferred to more advanced ventilators. These emergency systems are now readily available at...

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