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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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