Looking back at 2022, it's easy to proclaim it as a banner year for stadium technology. Innovation on multiple fronts arrived, not just as ideas but actual products and services that brought immediate improvement to stadium business areas like concessions, ticketing, security and infrastructure. Will 2023 bring more acceleration of new ideas and technology deployments as venues continue to try...
While the return of fans to full venues is generally seen as a good thing, the resumption of events has also seen the rise of some unintended and unwanted consequences, mainly in the areas of venue safety and security. Venue owners and operators have seen a noticeable rise in uncivil behavior by crowds, caused perhaps in part by tensions created...
BOULDER, Colo. -- IDmission is on a mission. A mission to help bring faster and more secure ID and age verification and payments verification to stadium concession operations. To be clear, it's not the company's only mission. In fact, it's currently only a very small part of IDmission's overall business, in which it serves more than 100 large financial institutions...
If staffing is the biggest concern facing stadiums and venues right now, how can technology help? So far, we're already seeing many stadiums using new technologies to help cope with the staffing shortages -- with changes we are guessing are here to stay. Self-pouring beer machines are one way to do concessions with fewer staff. Credit: Paul Kapustka, STR If...
As the oldest stadium in major league baseball, the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park is a beloved icon, especially for its architectural quirks like the “Green Monster” wall in left field. While endearing and intriguing, those same construction elements — some dating back to the park’s opening in 1912 — also make it extremely challenging to deploy modern wireless technology....
How are venues using technology to help with staffing concerns? And what are the options when it comes to wireless technology to help improve both fan-facing networks and back-of-house operations? Those are just some of the topics that surfaced in our recent 2022 Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, which we discuss with Verizon's Kevan Akers in this podcast.Akers, the venue subject...