Security News > 2020 > February > Super Bowl 54: How 5G will help keep fans safe at the game
High-tech security features will help keep 49ers and Chiefs fans safe during Super Bowl weekend in Miami.
Super Bowl weekend is when hundreds of thousands of fans descend upon the host city, and this year, with Super Bowl 54, that's Miami.
Verizon added about 30 in-building systems around the cities and in popular hotels, as well as 4G and 5G small cells in the Bayfront Park area to support where the NFL Super Bowl activities and events are, Palmer said.
"The benefit of having a Super Bowl is that $80 million investment that Verizon put into this area to bring 5G technology. When the game's over, that's all still here. So the police forces here will be able to maximize all the many new things that 5G is going to allow them to have," Bratton said.
Bratton said, in an interview three days before Super Bowl 54, "Planning for this event actually takes two years, both for law enforcement as well as Verizon. So today, for example, there's representatives from the Tampa PD and Los Angeles PD that'll be arriving to work with a host committee that the local police have put together to help them prepare for Tampa, next year's Super Bowl, and Los Angeles Super Bowl two years from now. Because it takes that long to really develop the plans for this event."