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Stadium Tech Report

November 12th, 2024

Editorial

Column: Fans are returning. Is your venue really ready?

As spring turns into summer, it seems like every day there are new pieces of good news arriving. With more areas of the country seeing the pandemic in recession, more and more cities and states are giving venues permission to hold full-attendance events. For those of us in the events business as well as those who drive our business --...

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University of Arizona taps 1337 Facilities to build ‘flexible’ esports center

After bursting onto the sporting mindset a few years ago with a huge bang, the idea of live-attendance "esports events," or fans watching competitive organized gaming, has had some problems living up to the hype. While projections of Super Bowl-sized crowds assembling to watch live gaming events haven't quite materialized yet, the undeniable popularity of competitive gaming, from casual play,...

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Will stadiums embrace smart poles for parking lots?

If providing technology inside a stadium is an accepted idea, bringing more technology to the spaces just outside stadiums -- mainly parking lots -- is still a work in progress. While venues have tried different types of one-off integrations, like attaching Wi-Fi or cellular antennas to existing light poles, some new offerings are coalescing around the idea of a "smart...

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Stadium technology provided support for mass vaccination sites

While the Covid-19 pandemic kept many fans from attending live events the past year, that didn't mean that stadiums stayed empty. After first serving as Covid-19 test sites, since the start of the year many stadiums and arenas across the country lent their parking lots and indoor spaces to vaccination efforts, using the wide-open spaces and already-in-place resources like power,...

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Hollywood Park vaccination site takes care of Los Angeles teachers

When it was finished, the temporary Covid-19 vaccination site for the Los Angeles Unified School District at Hollywood Park used a wireless network that was supported by optical fiber connections. While that sounds straightforward and simple, in this case there's a story behind the story about how the fiber found its way to the vaccination site. At the early March...

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Coors Field: Building a replicable model for parking-lot vaccinations

After a year spent administering systems in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the IT team at the University of Colorado Health system was thrown an outside curveball: With just a few weeks' notice, could they build a network to support a temporary outdoor mass vaccination site? With innovative thinking, some trial and error, and some help from a list...

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