Imagine you’re watching your favorite team on your couch or in person. What sports technologies do you think are impacting that game the most? Perhaps the coaches and front office staff that utilize a number of different data-gathering tools to better analyze X’s and O’s? What about the athletes who are a product of hundreds of hours of training with wearables and sensors that measure and quantify every movement? How about the fact that the stadium or arena hosting the game is a fully connected high-tech entertainment theater?
Or, what about the lighting? For the winner of the 2017 SportTechie Award for Outstanding Sports Technology, we ask you to consider the lights that illuminate the game itself.
Eaton’s Ephesus Lighting is full of innovation. Its lighting products for sports venues of all kinds are optimized for television broadcasts and are more affordable for venue operators because they require significantly less energy than older lighting systems. So television viewers have a clearer and more vibrant viewing, venue operators save money and a stadium’s significant energy consumption is reduced which makes it more environmentally friendly.
“Our system of light is connected to the cloud so you can send messages to it, you can get information from it, and now you’ve got a connectivity loop that can integrate with the scoreboard, the ribbon board, the future technology,” said Mike Lorenz, President, Eaton’s Ephesus Lighting. “You really are only limited by your imagination with our lighting system.”
For this array of reasons, Eaton’s Ephesus Lighting stood out among an impressive group of nominees for Outstanding Sports Technology.
The nominees for the SportTechie Award for Outstanding Sports Technology were: