Punters, racing fans, blokes on buck’s days and ladies on hen’s days rejoice – the newly upgraded Royal Randwick racecourse has the capacity to bring you and 49,999 of your friends high-capacity WiFi after the Australian Turf Club (ATC) installed one of the most sophisticated network of its kind for a sports venue in Australia.
Offering free WiFi access isn’t cheap – the potential for a lot of people to connect and chew up valuable internet bandwith is a real problem, so when you multiply that problem into a crowd of tens of thousands of people it’s not an easy one to solve.
Royal Randwick believe their installation of a system capable of servicing up to 50,000 mobile devices at the same time – including live video streaming, makes the racecourse one of the most technologically advanced in the world.
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook will be right at the fingertips of race-goers, as well as perhaps the odd betting site or live race event streaming.
In addition to WiFi there’s no holding back on the technology in other areas of the redevelopment – with an 11 meter tall and 40 meter long fully programmable superscreen on the infield – the largest LED screen in the Southern Hemisphere!
Inside the redeveloped main concourse are even more super-sized LED screens over the bar and betting areas.
Throughout the grandstand there are 690 televisions and table-mounted touch-screens steaming video via IP and it’s all controlled by a central Master Control Room – this is one heck of a high-tech racecourse.
No holding back from the ATC with this redevelopment it seems – we look forward to checking it out this Spring!
Trev is a Technology Commentator, Dad, Speaker and Rev Head.
He produces and hosts several popular podcasts, EFTM, Two Blokes Talking Tech, Two Blokes Talking Electric Cars, The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, and the Private Feed. He is the resident tech expert for Triple M on radio across Australia, and is the resident Tech Expert on Channel 9’s Today Show and appears regularly on 9 News, A Current Affair and Sky News Early Edition.
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