Remember back at the start of 2020, when we told you that 5G was coming to stadiums? Well that trend is fully underway now, highlighted this week by Verizon’s announcement that it had deployed its 5G ultra wideband services in 14 more NBA arenas, part of multi-year partnership agreements between Verizon and now 15 NBA […]
Austin FC picks YinzCam for app, VenueNext for POS
Major League Soccer’s Austin FC has selected leading sports venue app provider YinzCam as the developer of the team’s app, which will serve both as a game-day information and interaction center as well as a place where fans can view remote action of live games and other video. According to Austin FC President Andy Loughnane, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Levi’s Stadium: Digital displays and club spaces make vaccinations go smoothly
If you wandered into the Levi’s Stadium club spaces during a regular-season Niners game during non-pandemic conditions, you would likely find spots like the United Club and the Yahoo! Fantasy Football Lounge filled with football fans, enjoying the comforts and amenities of a premium seating space. But this spring, those areas were used to serve […]
