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The development of “smart stadia”, i.e. the use of “smart technologies” in the way sports stadia are designed and managed, promises to enhance the experience of attending a live match through innovative and improved services for the audience, as well as for the players, vendors and other stadium stakeholders. These developments offer us a timely opportunity to reflect on the ethical implications of the use of smart technologies and the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has the potential to radically transform society and is representative of the ways that novel technologies will alter human life. We use Dublin’s Croke Park stadium smart project as a case study for examining the development of smart stadia.
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There is no precise definition for smart technologies. They are often considered to be computerised and connected to the Internet. The Internet of Things is a network formed from physical things embedded with sensors that communicate with each other and the internet. Smart technologies will play a role in the IoT, though can exist separately from it, e.g. a smartphone can be connected to the Internet, but not yet part of the Internet of Things. Other technologies such as a wristband that tracks how much an athlete runs, or their heartrate, is likely to be considered a smart technology, but would not necessarily be part of the Internet of Things. However, the Internet of Things has the potential to subsume all such smart devices.
Outside the context of a stadium this sort of data will be extremely revelatory.
Flourishing need not be eudaimonistic.
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We would like to offer our sincere thanks to Professor Noel O’Connor and Dr. Suzanne Little of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland for their extremely helpful reviews and comments on this paper.
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O’Brolcháin, F., de Colle, S. & Gordijn, B. The Ethics of Smart Stadia: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Croke Park Project. Sci Eng Ethics 25, 737–769 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0033-5
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