The NHL Coaching Insights App and the NHL Venue Metrics App both run on SAP’s Business Technology Platform. Instead of visualizing in-game data like shots, saves, faceoffs, and time on ice like its bench-side counterpart, the arena-focused app tracks data like energy usage, water, waste, and recycling in NHL arenas.
“The NHL Venue Metrics tool is a true game-changing innovation to help us understand our environmental impacts and create viable insights to improve our ecological impact,” Omar Mitchell, NHL vice president of sustainable infrastructure and growth initiatives, said in a statement.
Climate-change studies have found that electricity and heat production sectors account for approximately 49 percent of carbon dioxide emissions. The NHL’s own studies have found that its venue operations comprise approximately 70 percent of the league’s overall carbon footprint. To try to shrink its ecological footprint, the NHL tasked SAP with a technology-based solution and the Venue Metrics app was the result.
Schulz noted that as much as the app led to greenhouse efficiencies, most sustainability initiatives lead to financial benefits as well.
“I think that the key to this platform in general is visibility, across all the venues to better understand where they are using,” Schulz told The Canadian Press. “You can’t affect what you don’t know. I think that really is the key: understanding where they can make efficiencies.
“I think everybody wants to be as green as possible. I think it’s just a matter of getting the right technology and solutions in place to understand at scale.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 16, 2022.
John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press
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