During baseball season, the air at minor-league Raley Field in Sacramento, Calif., is filled with more than fly balls, cheers and the faint aroma of hot dogs and sauerkraut. Streams of data also pervade the stadium, the result of the magic of wireless Internet access, or Wi-Fi.
Funded partly by chip giant Intel to show off its technology, the stadium network lets engineers monitor lights and heating from their handheld computers and allows luxury-box owners to check e-mail and surf the Net between innings. By the end of next season, team officials say, new Wi-Fi antennas will be installed all over the park; fans will order hot dogs and check out-of-town scores from the cheap seats; ticket takers will scan tickets with handheld PCs and greet fans by their first names. And the players -- well, maybe they won't notice that everyone is suddenly staring at computer screens.
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-- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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