Daytona International Speedway completes its Rising project with Tripleplay's IPTV technology

This iconic motorsports stadium has completed the deployment of more than 1.500 digital signage screens, with eight hundred Samsung Smart Signage Platform (P.S.S.S) with built-in multimedia player inside and seven hundred Peerless on the outside, that use Tripleplay's digital signage and IPTV system to deliver content to each of them.

built in 1959, Daytona International Speedway is one of the world's most iconic motorsports stadiums., through which fans from all over the world have passed. Maintaining this line, in 2013 Those responsible carried out an ambitious reconstruction of the facility, reinventing its proposal to become the world center of speed with the latest technology.

The so-called Daytona Rising project has been completed this year and in time to celebrate the most important motorsports race in the Nascar Cup Series and in the motorsports calendar: the Daytona 500 (las 500 miles) of the edition 2016, and inaugurate the stadium expansion.

As part of this project to provide the stadium with the latest visualization technology and offer a different experience to fans, Its managers chose Tripleplay's digital signage and IPTV solution, supplier with whom they signed a technological partnership agreement.

This is what Julie Giese points out, VP marketing and communications of this facility: “Daytona International Speedway focuses on partnerships, So when we started the Rising Daytona project we looked for the technology providers that best suited our needs., both now and in the future. And we saw digital signage and IPTV technology as a key part of our future strategy.; which allows us to communicate better with our viewers, not only from a promotional point of view, but for information and also to ensure that we keep you up to date with schedule changes, notices, etc”.

The IPTV platform of Tripleplay was the solution, “incredibly easy to use and everything works. We are well aware that racing is a blink of an eye, high speed, and we didn't want our fans to miss anything. With this digital signage and content distribution solution to the screens, we offer live images of the race at all times and in detail.”, Giese assures.

In total, Daytona International Speedway features 1.500 screens displayed in its enclosure: specifically eight hundred Samsung Smart Signage Platform (P.S.S.S) with integrated media player, and seven hundred outdoors Peerless. This entire network of screens uses the digital signage and IPTV system to deliver content and video streaming to each display system..

Para Rodney Ward, senior director for venue technology en International Speedway Corporation (ISC), “The Tripleplay system is very intuitive and easy to manage, since it is not necessary to have highly technical personnel on the team to operate with the system, hace falta muy poca formación. Además es sencillo de actualizar y rentable, por lo que resulta un valioso socio”

With a network of 1.500 pantallas digitales en funcionamiento durante una competición o evento, es fundamental conocer rápidamente los problemas y fallos que puedan producirse. La solución de Tripleplay garantiza esto con módulos de informes y análisis que se remiten al equipo técnico en el momento si hay alguna incidencia.

“Podemos conocer y ver muy rápidamente si tenemos un problema o hay interrupciones en alguna pantalla con notificaciones automáticas y actuar en el momento. En una instalación tan grande es una ventaja enorme y vital, ya que nos ahorra mucho tiempo y costes al detectar el problema, ensuring network security. Tripleplay gives us the ability to know the status of all the screens individually, that we can even repair remotely”.

Tripleplay has developed additional features and elements for this project, guaranteeing the evolution and updating of the technology deployed at Daytona International Speedway. “They have provided us with everything we have asked for and more, with updates, adding new features and functions as we detected this need… and keeping us abreast of technological innovations acting as a true partner and collaborator”, afirma Ward.