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Super Bowl 50 to be the most tech savvy

BUFFALO, NY - The Super Bowl has come a long way in 50 years, you won’t see a college marching band at this halftime. The Super Bowl today is a technological wonder and a time where industry brings out the heavy hitters to provide the ultimate experience.

BUFFALO, NY - The Super Bowl has come a long way in 50 years, you won’t see a college marching band at this halftime. The Super Bowl today is a technological wonder and a time where industry brings out the heavy hitters to provide the ultimate experience.

In terms of connectivity, Levi stadium will be the most connected stadium in the nation this Sunday.

More than 400 miles of fiber and copper were installed at Levi Stadium to handle the 1,200 wifi-access points. There’s a wifi router for every hundred seats in the stadium and over 40 gigabits per second of available bandwidth. That’s over 10 times the minimum bandwidth required by the NFL.

1,700 Bluetooth beacons scattered throughout the 72,000 seat stadium will provide fans with an accurate directions to their seat. Those beacons will also also stadium goers to find the nearest nacho stand or bathroom and even watch the Super Bowl ads via the super bowl stadium app provided by the NFL.

36 camera’s are mounted on top of the stadium to provide a live 360 degree view of the game. The hard hitting action can be stopped, replayed and viewed from any angle during the broadcast, not your grandpa’s instant replay.

Speaking of camera’s, this will be the first super bowl where the pylon camera will be used. Developed locally by former WGRZ engineer Paul Haulsey. Sixteen cameras mounted in the pylons could end up deciding the game.

The game will also be shot in 5k resolution, the first super bowl at such a high res. To put it in perspective that’s about 14.7 million pixels of resolution, compared to normal HD which is only two million pixels. But unless you own a 5k TV, you won’t get to take advantage of all that extra resolution.

At the end of the day the Super Bowl is so much more than a football game fifty years later. It’s a spectacle wherein tech companies show off their prowess in stadiums to provide fans the ultimate experience, networks gleefully use their new toys to broadcast. This will be the most technologically advanced Super Bowl ever (until next year) and it’s designed to attract viewers of all ages and demographics.

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