Van Rooijen

Van Rooijen is a family run transport and logistics business founded in 1947 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and in Turnhout, Belgium. The company operates within the Benelux Region (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg) in the fast-moving consumer goods sector, including food, sweets, personal care products, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. In all, Van Rooijen is able to provide its customers with storage, warehousing and shipping solutions, based on the one-stop-shop principle, for goods ranging from one kilogramme in weight to full truck-loads.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

As Van Rooijen grew, its sites expanded and so did its security systems. The result was an unstructured security system that in some cases performed unsatisfactorily. As a result, Van Rooijen decided to remove all previous security systems and implement a new and improved up-to-date security platform for access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance. A principal requirement was that the new arrangement needed to link the company’s two sites into an integrated system. After a number of meetings Van Rooijen tasked UTCFS and Niscayah Netherlands, an international operating installer and integrator, with implementing a system to meet its requirements.

UTCFS’s solution

The ATS Master platform provides Van Rooijen with both intrusion detection and access control. At each site there is a single control panel connecting over 50 badge readers and more than 100 strategically-placed detectors. There are currently over 1,500 access cards registered in the system, all of which can be configured centrally from a monitoring station in the Netherlands. Over 50 video surveillance cameras are connected to five digital video recorders. The systems at both of Van Rooijen’s sites are connected over an IP network to the central monitoring station, managed by the Alliance software platform. Alliance is able to manage different security systems at different locations through a single integrated user interface. Any future sites can easily be connected to the Alliance system, a great advantage in terms of both cost and efficiency. With UTCFS’s solution, Van Rooijen has found its standardised security platform – one it can rely on and build upon for the future.