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Stadium Tech Report

January 15th, 2025

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News

Reds, Royals join MLB’s facial authentication entry technology program

Major League Baseball's initiative to bring facial authentication systems to ballparks for faster entry has gained two new stadiums, Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park and Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium, according to MLB. Using gate technology from NEC, the MLB program allows fans to verify ticket information by simply walking by the gate pedestals and looking at the camera. Fans must...

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T-Mobile sees 6.3 TB of cellular traffic at Globe Life Field for MLB All-Star Game

Some recent upgrades to its 5G cellular network at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, helped wireless carrier T-Mobile see 6.3 terabytes of data used by its customers during the two days of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game activities earlier this month. According to figures provided by T-Mobile, the carrier said it saw a combined 6.3 TB of traffic on...

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Feature

San Francisco Giants fans rapidly adopting facial-authentication ticketing tech at Oracle Park

As the longtime warden of all things technology for the San Francisco Giants, chief information officer Bill Schlough has seen (and sometimes deployed) many different types of tech. So when he tells you a new one really gets him jazzed, it makes sense to pay attention. The newest addition to Oracle Park's tech stack is the facial-authentication ticketing system provided...

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