Case Study: Mercedes‑Benz Stadium achieves faster, fan‑friendly security screening and reduced security staffing with Evolv

Mercedes-Benz Stadium Makes Guests and Staff Feel Like They Are Walking into a Friend’s House with Fan-friendly Security Screening

Mercedes‑Benz Stadium in Atlanta, home to the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and MLS’s Atlanta United, faced crowded entry queues, high rates of secondary bag checks, staff frustration, and a large footprint of 100 walk‑through metal detectors that required about 250 personnel. The stadium engaged Evolv to implement a fan‑first, more efficient screening approach using Evolv Express systems and Evolv’s analytics tools.

Evolv configured, piloted and deployed 15 dual‑lane Evolv Express systems with Evolv Cortex AI and Evolv Insights, trained stadium staff, and optimized processes; as a result Evolv helped shrink the screening footprint from 100 detectors to 15, cut ingress security staffing from 250 to about 90, reduced secondary screenings from ~40% to 6–12%, drove a threefold improvement in guest satisfaction to over 90%, sped entry times and increased concession sales while largely eliminating peak‑time queues.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Greg Overstreet

Director of Security