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Customer Testing of Evolv Guides Purchase Decisions as Millions Enjoy a Better Security Experience
WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- With Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Opening Day around the corner, 10 MLB teams are gearing up to welcome millions of fans
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[{"type":"text","content":" WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWith Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Opening Day around the corner, 10 MLB teams are gearing up to welcome millions of fans with the help of security screening by Evolv (NASDAQ: EVLV), the leading security technology company pioneering AI-based screening to create safer experiences.\n\n\nEvolv’s Express® is an award-winning weapons detection system that uses sensor technology combined with artificial intelligence to help differentiate between weapons and non-threatening metal objects people commonly carry. Since the launch of Evolv Express in 2019, Evolv has screened more than 1 billion people in hundreds of venues around the world.\n\n\nWhen considering new technology, many Evolv customers rely on real-world performance metrics, testimonials and information obtained from other users in their respective industries, and often their own testing of Evolv Express, to guide their purchase decisions.\n\n\n“We do a lot of innovation,” said Dave Horsman, vice president of Ballpark Operations for the Minnesota Twins, who partnered with Evolv over a year ago for security screening. “But for something directly impacting guest experience and safety like security screening, we wanted to thoroughly test it and achieve a high level of certainty of success.”\n\n\nAccordingly, Horsman and team spent a week at another venue that had Express systems in place while learning about Evolv.\n\n\n“I was able to see firsthand how well the system works and was very impressed. We were able to see how it performs in other MLB parks—which provided some really good validation for us.”\n\n\nIn addition, the team did their own testing of the Evolv Express system to further validate it was the right addition to their safety plan.\n\n\n“We did our homework and did extensive testing over the offseason—testing to see if it would detect objects it should detect and not detect the ones we didn’t want to detect. We were really impressed with the results and decided to move forward.”\n\n\nA year later since implementing Evolv Express, Horsman still recounts the Twins’ Opening Day as the moment that stands out the most in his mind.\n\n\n“We were in the security ingress area when the National Anthem played,” he recalls. “Normally, with the metal detectors, we would still have lines of fans trying to get into the park. But when I looked u...