- Products
- Service
- Project Business
- References
- fischer group
- Contact
- Home
- References
- Digital Guardians in the Munich Olympic Stadium
Legendary football matches, major concerts, and a panoramic view all the way to the Alps: Munich's Olympic Stadium has been offering unforgettable moments for decades. It combines architecture and emotions – attracting visitors from all over the world. Now new, small, inconspicuous helpers have joined: screws in the roof structure that digitally monitor their own safety.
Since the 1972 Olympic Games, the stadium has shaped Munich’s cityscape. A highlight is the world-famous tent roof – a delicate steel structure covering around 78,000 square meters of the stadium area and about half of the stadium itself. At an airy height of up to 50 meters above the playing field, visitors can walk on catwalks across the roof – with views over Munich, down onto the pitch, and on clear days all the way to the Alps. For adrenaline fans, there is also the “Flying Fox,” a roughly 200-meter-long zip line that runs about 35 meters high across the stadium turf.
For all these attractions, safety is the top priority. Therefore, Stadtwerke München have supplemented the existing fastenings of the visitor platform integrated into the roof with so-called SensorBolts from the company fischer. These high-strength screws are equipped with sensors that continuously measure how firmly the components hold together and what temperatures and environmental influences they are exposed to. The data is automatically transmitted to a central system and can be accessed anytime and anywhere on smartphones as well as PCs.
What used to be possible only with regular inspections and great effort can now be handled permanently and digitally.
“What used to be possible only with regular inspections and great effort can now be handled permanently and digitally,” says Martin Neumann, Head of Connected Products at the fischer Group. “Operators receive real-time information on whether everything is safe – without elaborate on-site checks. This allows maintenance and servicing to be planned more precisely, downtime to be reduced, costs to be lowered, safety standards to be further increased, and the service life of buildings and facilities to be extended.”
In addition to screws, other fasteners with sensor technology are also part of the offering. The Olympic Stadium is just one of several projects. The technology is already being used in leisure attractions such as the “blue fire Megacoaster” at Europa-Park, in offshore wind farms, as well as many other buildings and facilities.
