The Allianz Arena in Munich combines the experience of sports with Siemens technology

The Allianz Arena in Munich, considered one of the most modern and beautiful football stadiums in the world, hosted this weekend the Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea, showing everyone the technology and technical facilities implemented by Siemens.

The Allianz Arena, one of the most modern and technological football stadiums in the world, has hosted the Champions League final 2012, one of the most important events of the year in the world of football, that has faced Chelsea and Bayern Munich, with final victory of the London team. The company Siemens has been responsible for providing adequate lighting, guaranteed sustainable infrastructure, energy efficiency and safety for the big match in Munich.

Mark Mildner, vice president of Siemens, explained that “the Allianz Arena is a stadium that maximizes the sporting experience of attendees, which has the most modern electronic systems, security and broadband communications, An example of this are the two giant television screens of 92 square meters and 150 a thousand pixels each”.

Football and more

The venue has almost 70.000 seating, of which 10.000 They are convertible into standing seats. In addition, The stadium has an area of 6.000 square meters with gastronomy, conference rooms, leisure areas, shops and exhibition venues, as well as 11.000 parking spaces. The stadium is covered by the largest membrane in the world, with a surface of 66.500 square meters. The roof and façade are made up of 2.760 “pads” that are inflated with air from fans.

The smooth outer skin of the stadium can be illuminated when the occasion requires it with the colors of the two local teams: red for Bayern Munich and blue for TSV 1860. For this special event, dynamic lighting was planned, red for Bayern and blue for Chelsea.. This technology is made up of 25.000 Exclusive design luminaires from Siemens, each of which contains 18 fluorescent tubes 58 watts per illuminated pad.

High technology down to the last detail

The modern technology of the enclosure allows you to control its internal temperature both in winter and summer through a ventilation system of 3.2 Megwatts, equivalent to the air conditioning of a thousand cars, y 5.2 Heating MW, comparable to that used in 500 casas. To fight possible fires, Siemens has installed its own smoke extraction systems, a network of sprinklers with 15.000 automatic extinguishing heads and a system
of hydrants with 300 units with dry and wet circuits.

Emergency alarms are equally sophisticated., as well as sensors and 90 surveillance cameras inside and outside the stadium connected to security centers. Among them, The stadium has two high-definition cameras capable of zooming in and taking passport-sized photographs..

There is also a control center where all the relevant information comes together., with the possibility of executing command operations at any time. It is there where the information that comes from 5.000 data points. The instrumentation and control system of the stadium facilities performs command and regulation tasks and at the same time monitors the heating systems, ventilation and air conditioning or monitors various accessory systems such as elevators or barriers.

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