Recognized for their capacity of innovation, the Walloon companies are more and more involved in the framework of major sporting events. For example, numerous cutting edge technologies developed in Wallonia will be used during the Football World Cup in Brazil. Some of the companies have already participated in the Sochi Olympics.
Let us take a look at the contracts signed to date for the 2014 FIFA World Cup this June:
This company, from Ans, offers television stations around the world a "Brazil 2014" package for carrying out virtual analyses and producing 3D match statistics.
This company, from Liège, will provide equipment to the live and almost-live production infrastructure for the event's TV broadcasting.
The extreme slow motion technology developed by this company, based in Mons Belgium, will be used by major television channels such as the giant TV Globo which manages over 100 Brazilian television channels, and Sky Italy, to name only those two examples.
Specialising in the design of giant LED screens, PRODILED has won the coveted contract for the World Cup closing ceremony and will provide the screens for this highlight event.
The Schréder group will provide full, sustainable lighting to the whole of the Mineirão Stadium in Belo Horizonte. It will also provide outdoor LED lighting solutions to the Maracaña Arena in Rio, as well as many monuments and bridges.
Skylane Optics will provide telecommunications equipment to convert electrical signals into optical signals at the stadiums in Recife, Natal, Fortaleza and Salvador, in north-east Brazil.
The forthcoming prestigious events will mean so much to these technology specialists and many more. You will certainly find them at the 2016 European Football Championship in France, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
