From the stadium to the cloud: the silent revolution in sports broadcasting, at SportsInnovation (Broadcast Solutions)

SportsInnovation 2026, held at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf and powered by Broadcast Solutions, presented innovations aimed at transforming sports broadcasts with consolidated solutions and prototypes tested in real time before leading agents in global sports production.

From the perspective of the mobile units, visitors were able to discover the new production vehicle that Broadcast Solutions is building together with DMC Production: a completely software-based concept that seeks to “redefine” live sports production. The compact mobile unit provides essential infrastructure on site, with production of its 16 cameras managed remotely from DMC centers in Munich, Hilversum or any of DMC's other broadcast centers via Grass Valley AMPP. With only a 100 Mbps Internet connection to the management and control centers, this platform cloud enables high-quality, low-latency production from anywhere.

PMT, for its part, demonstrated in operation its new rain deflector for aerial camera systems such as the Spidercam, allowing you to keep the lens clean throughout the match. Again in the aerial field, Skynamic presented its ultralight drones, certified to fly over the public and in rainy conditions. Weighing only 99 grams and equipped with propeller guards and other safety measures, they are presented as safe solutions both indoors and outdoors. Skynamic also showed a drone with an attached gimbal, which provides high-quality stabilized images in a very compact device.

In addition, Studio Automated presented an AI solution to automate the conduct of sports matches. With a preconfiguration for several sports, including football, basketball and handball, the system is aimed at second and third category sports productions in its initial deployment phase.

Spanish representation in SportsInnovation

Broadcast Solutions invited to the event Sapec to demonstrate the potential of The CornerCam, its corner camera system. The solution, which integrates two mobile cameras, a PTZ head complete at the top of the pole and a panoramic camera at the bottom, It allows you to offer extremely detailed shots of a corner kick, actions close to the corner and even for goal celebrations.

In addition, the material generated by this tool that has complete certification from the FIFA and the IFAB In terms of security, it can be taken into account for the review processes of key plays by referees.