CNET News - Baseball tech keeps fans and players connected
CNET News - Baseball tech keeps fans and players connected
2015-06-25
as the San Francisco Giants are in full
swing at AT&T Park engineers behind the
scenes and making sure fans can share
the first pitch with the world the
ballpark was the first pro stadium to
introduce Wi-Fi back in 2004 with more
fans than ever using mobile devices
their new technology ensures you're
always covered whether you're using
Wi-Fi or a cellular connection fans are
starting to bring more than one device
per game and you're seeing a lot of fans
that might bring three devices so it's a
wearable it's a tablet and it's a
smartphone they'll bring all those and
again they just expect to stay connected
wherever they go hit him throughout the
Volkhov a 1300 network access points to
the crowd of over 40,000 people can
connect to the Wi-Fi network and tweet
Facebook or Instagram to their heart's
content this season the crowd is to
through one point one four terabytes of
data each game that's equivalent to
around 3.2 million social media updates
for the World Series data use can
skyrocket to two terabytes a day
visitors who use a cellular connection
to make calls and send text messages are
also covered these white boxes high
above the bleachers our AT&T s echo BOTS
they feedback information on the network
in real time so engineers can monitor
usage and connectivity and then make
adjustments what it does is it interacts
with mobile devices and embedded devices
like like our customers do doing things
like apps a messaging voice the San
Francisco Giants are also using tech to
make adjustments to their game using a
system called statcast quantify the
route that a player takes to a ball in
the outfield or quantify the jump that a
base runner gets when they're stealing a
base these are these are cameras that
track everything that moves on the field
and for the first time we can capture
statistics that no one's ever had before
the ballpark has rolled out other
high-tech features to improve the fan
experience Apple pay is available in
some concession stores with full
deployment coming in 2016 charging
stations in the park can refuel your
phone and you can even order a pizza
delivered right to your seat from the
pitch to the bleachers it's a home run
for all in San Francisco I'm Lexie CBDs
cnet.com for CBS News
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