Business View Magazine | September 2019

137 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 outfield to make a baseball field. The University of Minnesota plays their early season games here, and then we open to a lot of the other small regional colleges for them to play baseball. It’s still pretty cold in February and early March, so this is a benefit teams will heavily utilize across the upper Midwest. We start at 6 AM and go to 3 AM every single day for about three and a half weeks.” As the newest kid on the block, the U.S. Bank Stadium also boasts the latest in technological amenities. “Being a new building, we have the benefit of having a complete end-to-end system,” Talty explains. “We’re a hundred-percent Cisco building from the head all the way to the individual Wi-Fi access points. We have both a Wi-Fi and a DAS system for all our users. One of the things we’ve heard a lot of feedback on is that the stadium is able to accommodate the mega-events and not have any technology issues. The Final Four said it was their best technology experience ever; they broke download and data transfer records for a single day event on the final night of the championship. We have over 2,000 televisions in the building – we can program them individually, or we can take over all the televisions and send content to each of them. We have a lot of digital screens for the fans. And then there are the things you don’t see, behind the scenes, such as the POS system. It’s a company called Appetize Technologies that uses iPads for their POS system – very user friendly, very easy training-wise, very robust. We even use a ticket scanning system that started in the ski industry. “Another unique thing about this building, that I never experienced elsewhere, is that it’s a single technology infrastructure. The backbone that was put in by Cisco runs all of the building functions. All the building controls here, including HVAC, security, access controls and light safety system, ride on the same network that runs through the whole building. So, it really is an end-to-end solution that we can manage.” Another area in which the stadium excels D. Brown Enterprise, LLC For more information, contact us at: lmercer@dbrownenterprises.com (612) 388-0908 unparalleled janitorial and specialty cleaning services U . S . BANK STADIUM