City of Best

The city of Best, The Netherlands, counts nearly 30,000 inhabitants and offers a high-tech business park. Located close to the Eindhoven Airport, and thus easily accessible, Best is in full expansion and is becoming a modern town, offering high quality of life.

Best Sport Campus

As the city of Best is constantly expanding, it has a number of development projects underway. The new sports campus of Best will accommodate the public, and more importantly the local schools. With this campus, the city of Best is confident to raise the level of sports education.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

Best’s school buildings previously had little or no security or safety systems installed. Due to new regulations in The Netherlands concerning safety and security, a new, improved security system became a high priority for the town counsel. When Best started building a modern sports campus it had to comply with the norms and regulations of the NOC/NSF, the Olympic Committee of The Netherlands. This project entailed building a completely new multifunctional sports complex for most of the schools’ gym lessons and for the sports clubs’ trainings and competitions. It was essential that the sports campus provided a secure and safe environment. To fulfill this requirement, the Best sports campus sought a security system including intrusion and fire detection, access control and video surveillance.

UTCFS’s solution

UTCFS approached the Best sports campus together with its local security installer, LIHO security systems, and proposed their solution. The system comprises four security applications: access control, intrusion and fire detection and video surveillance. Smoke and beam detectors are placed throughout the facility, each of them connected to a fire control panel. These fire control panels form the gathering point for detectors, and report directly to a control room. The intrusion detection and access control system operates on UTCFS’s ATS Master panels. These panels allow both systems to be operated through one control panel and one user interface. Regarding video surveillance, there are cameras in place both in- and outside of the campus. These cameras, both fixed and dome cameras, are connected to a number of hard disk recorders, which are able to store large amounts of data. All of the campus’ security applications are managed by the Alliance software package, which offers an efficient way to monitor and operate a medium-scale security system in an integrated way. Best is proud of its sports campus, and is equally proud of its security system.