PANSTADIA & ARENA MANAGEMENT WINTER 2013/14
The arena has one of the highest average attendances in Europe.
HC SLOVAN in SLOVNAFT Arena
In 2012 HC SLOVAN petitioned to join the expanding Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Founded in Russia in 2008 with 24 teams, the league has grown to 28 teams with 21 being in Russia itself and seven abroad. SLOVNAFT Arena is one of the most popular venues in the league, consistently drawing the highest numbers of fans to KHL games, averaging third league-wide and seventh in all of Europe with an average close to 10,000 per game.
Krajci explains: “The arena is a fantastic place to watch a game. Not only is the competition in the KHL intense, but also SLOVNAFT Arena is a great place to enjoy it. It has the reputation from the 2011 IIHF World Championships as being a place to bring the family because of the security, so people know they will not only get to see a great game, but they’ll be able to spend some real quality family time. For SLOVAN, that’s very important, because we want to continue to grow our fan-base.”
Technology in SLOVNAFT ARENA
What makes the SLOVNAFT Arena such a great place to view an event? It starts with the technology. From the biometric turnstiles, to the IPTV system present throughout the arena, to the high-def
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LED scoreboard to the wi-fi intranet; at no time will a fan fi nd himself out of touch with the action or threatened by a hooligan.
Built with technology from ColosseoEAS, the turnstiles all have a small camera that scans the face of anyone entering the arena and matches the ticket and face against a database of known hooligans before allowing entrance. Furthermore, every fan that enters the arena has his face recorded so if he causes trouble, he can be easily entered into the database to be denied future entry. The system works seamlessly and quickly. In fact, with the RFID ticket scanning system and facial recognition happening in milliseconds, queues at entrances have been signifi cantly reduced compared to the pre- reconstruction days. This is an important consideration when taking one’s family to a game because no one likes waiting with kids to get into the arena.
TURNSTILES
The IPTV system is connected to all the screens everywhere throughout the arena. Being centrally controlled means game operators can serve advertising to screens behind concession stands, show live action on screens in the corridors and broadcast instant replays, KissCam and virtual fi reworks on the scoreboard, Space Ring and advertising fascia. The downloadable mobile app allows a fan
to view replays from multiple camera angles, check scores from other games around the league, view the main video feed being broadcast and check player statistics. No longer will the fan at home have more information than the fan at the stadium. Colosseo’s technology has taken care of that defi ciency.
All video is controlled with a 24 channel Colosseo Director unit that can be preprogrammed with graphics for goals, penalties, rosters, timeouts, intermission presentations or KissCam, vastly reducing the operator’s in-game workload. Further preprogramming means that only two people are required to run the entire arena in- game presentation, including timing and scoring. This is a real benefi t to the arena operators as it reduces costs and increases revenue.
ColosseoEAS
ColosseoEAS built the technology for the SLOVNAFT Arena and were so successful with it they have exported it to other venues around Europe and the USA. They have installed wi-fi and video technology to San Francisco’s Cow Palace, video technology to the Olympic Veledrome in St. Petersburg, Russia, Shayba arena in Sochi, Russia for Winter Olympic Games 2014, video and giant LED screens technology at Albert Schultz Halle in Austria.
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