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Stadium Tech Report

February 23rd, 2025

Terry Sweeney

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Sorama’s ‘acoustic cameras’ offer sound as a medium for fan engagement

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 the units have obvious use...

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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 look like the most auspicious...

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Editorial

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. Sinks, soap dispensers and other...

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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 year. Using adjacent lots, the...

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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 cellular antennas to ensure Blue...

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