Stadium Tech Report: What we've been writing lately

For those of you who are not yet signed up for our mailing list, here is a quick recap of some of the top stories we've been writing lately, including a look at the San Francisco Giants' deployment of facial authentication ticketing tech, wireless performance at the men's Final Four, some new checkout-free concession stats, and a new feature for us, sponsor posts! Read on for more info.

The newest addition to Oracle Park’s tech stack is the facial-authentication ticketing system provided by Major League Baseball, which uses technology from NEC. Called “Go-Ahead Entry,” the camera-based ticketing gates (called “monoliths” in MLB lingo) are already seeing rapid acceptance by fans attending Giants games, according to some early season numbers. Read our post to learn more about why the Giants are jazzed about the new tech.

If your venue is going to host the Final Four, it never hurts to host the Super Bowl the year before, at least from a wireless network perspective.

Thanks to network infrastructure investments made ahead of Super Bowl LVII in 2023, State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., was more than prepared for the wireless demands of the NCAA 2024 men’s Final Four championship weekend, which took place at the venue on April 6 and 8. Read our post to learn about how the flexibility of the MatSing antennas helped keep Final Four fans connected.

When it comes to checkout-free concession stands, we like to look at the stadium with the most stands — Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas — when it comes to trying to assess trends. Thanks to the Las Vegas Raiders and to Zippin, we have some top-line statistics from the 2023 NFL regular season games at Allegiant to share, starting with a total of approximately 100,000 items sold across the 10 stores during Raiders home games.

A brand-new feature on Stadium Tech Report's home page is content posts from our sponsor partners. The idea behind our sponsor posts is that we want to provide readers with more detailed information about products, services and deployments straight from the sponsors themselves. We now have posts from Boingo Wireless about their network deployments at Snapdragon Stadium, and from Wicket, whose latest post discusses the company's privacy-first approach to biometrics. Take a look and let us know what you think!