Salary Capped: Does Limiting Touchpoints Mean Limiting Access within Stadiums?

Now that sports are starting up again around the globe. How do we analyze and limit the number of touch points the athletes have during the course of their visit to the stadium?

When we watch a game from our TV’s we can easily forget that a stadium is really an entire village with hundreds and thousands of people working behind the scenes to power the stadium. How are leagues approaching limiting access while still balancing the operations side of the equation?

Tyler Kern sat down with the Head of Orion Innovation’s Sports Division, Sam Adeyemi, to discuss how teams are developing new solutions to limit the number of officials on the field, limiting access to team facilities, how they are implementing thermal control and tracking devices and offering testing to players.

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