Light Reading visits San Diego's Petco Park to see how the Padres baseball team is using IoT to slash operations costs.

Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading

August 25, 2016

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SAN DIEGO -- Light Reading went out to the ballgame this week. Or, more precisely, we skipped most of the ballgame -- because we are not interested in baseball -- and checked out something really interesting instead: how Qualcomm and the San Diego Padres are using Internet of Things (IoT) technology to improve operations efficiency at the Padres' Petco Park.

With camera in hand, we went into the bowels of the ballpark, to see how Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) and partner OSIsoft, a big data IoT company, are capturing data from gas, water, and electrical systems in a plan to make efficiency savings of 25%.

Click the photo below to start a slideshow of what we saw on our tour behind the scenes at Petco Park.

And for more detail on the technology and business goals, read this: San Diego Padres Swing for the Fences With IoT.

Learn more about the Internet of Things on Light Reading's Internet of Things channel.

Figure 1: Play Ball! The San Diego Padres are looking to IoT technology to cut operating costs by 25%. The San Diego Padres are looking to IoT technology to cut operating costs by 25%.

— Mitch Wagner, Follow me on TwitterVisit my LinkedIn profile, Editor, Light Reading Enterprise Cloud

About the Author(s)

Mitch Wagner

Executive Editor, Light Reading

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

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