As the infection of the new coronavirus spreads rapidly in Miyagi prefecture, the season opening game of professional baseball Rakuten in Sendai City was thoroughly controlled by introducing a temperature measurement system using AI.
Rakuten will limit the maximum number of spectators to 15,600, which is half of the capacity for the time being, based on the conditions for holding events in the government and Miyagi prefecture for the games hosted by Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi in Sendai City.
Tickets for the opening three consecutive games from the 26th were sold out, and fans who had been waiting for the game even before the start of the game gathered at the stadium one after another.
From this season, the team has introduced a system that uses AI and infrared rays as a countermeasure against the new corona and can measure the temperature even while wearing a mask or hat at the entrance of the stadium.
With this system, up to 30 people can measure their body temperature at the same time, so the spectators wearing masks entered the stadium without crowding.
The team requires spectators to wear masks, prohibits loud cheers, and leaves vacant seats in front, back, left and right except when watching a game with family and friends.
A teenage man from Iwate Prefecture said, "I have the impression that there are more people in the stadium than last year. I was wondering if I would come to see it, but I want to send a hot ale in my heart." Was there.
A woman in her twenties who visited with a friend from Tokyo said, "I'm worried that I might bring back the virus. I want to take proper measures such as keeping on wearing a mask."