Rick Scholte is an audio alchemist, turning sound waves into images and heat maps with his company’s “acoustic cameras” that can zero in on a small group of fans or render an entire seating bowl in multi-colored decibel levels. Scholte is also founder and CEO of Sorama, which builds and sells these acoustic cameras. While […]
Acrisure Arena brings hockey, big concerts to the desert
It’s almost the stuff of fever dreams: 28 feet below the sunbaked surface of the southern California desert sits an ice rink that’s home to a professional hockey team. And on at least one Sunday in late January, the arena looked darn near close to capacity. This dusty corner of the Sonoran desert may not […]
IoT brings network connectivity to stadium restroom management
Stadium and arena owners are hearing the same sales pitch more frequently: Use the Internet of Things to create connected restrooms. The benefits: Save money on utilities like water and electricity. Reduce janitorial headcount and the personnel budget. Give fans and visitors a superior customer experience rather than subject them to less than deluxe environments. […]
Dodger Stadium: Parking-lot cellular provides connectivity for vaccinations
Major League Baseball’s third-oldest stadium has served as a stage for the Beatles (1966), Pope John Paul II (1987), and even the National Hockey League’s Stadium Series (2014). So in this needs-must Covid-19 era, it was perhaps only logical that Dodger Stadium would re-purpose its sprawling parking complex for Covid testing and vaccinations earlier this […]
Dodgers up the ante with new Wi-Fi 6 network
Professional sports may have put games and exhibitions on hold, but a handful of IT executives from Major League Baseball teams have been using pandemic downtime to upgrade Wi-Fi and DAS systems in their stadiums. Case in point: The Los Angeles Dodgers just completed the league’s first Wi-Fi 6 overhaul along with adding new 5G […]
