Project IQ-PassLogistics challenge settled with military precision

Logistics challenge settled with military precision

A temporary Defence camp where 7,000 registered participants have to go in and out at different times every day? To organise this, Defence used IQ-Pass access control. Every year, military personnel participate in the Nijmegen Four-Day Walk and camp Heumensoord in Malden is built in five weeks to house them. Access control for the participants and organisation is essential for this logistical challenge.

Tight preparation

Martien Timmerman, master builder of the camp, says: "There are 6,000 participants and 1,000 support people. There is sleeping accommodation, a hospital, a police post and a fire station." Lieutenant Colonel John Haasnoot says that of those participants, there are 4,000 international guests from 31 countries. "Participants in the Four Days Marches leave the camp to walk along, but of course they may also go to the parties in the evening." All these logistical movements require tight preparation and good access control, and for this reason IQ-Pass is being used.

IQ-Pass and defence

Defence works with IQ-Pass more often for temporary access control solutions. For Heumensoord, Defence was already using IQ-Pass' hardware, but this year it also wanted to use GoWorkforce. 7,800 access passes, printed with the logo of the Four Days Marches, were therefore made in advance for the runners and the organisation. The soldiers walk in a group from a particular department, a detachment. The passes are sorted and delivered per detachment.

Access control Heumensoord

Three days before the start of the Four Days Marches, participants arrived at Heumensoord. The detachment commander distributes the passes among his group and with these the soldiers can enter and leave the camp. At the gate is a pass desk, headed by Marcel van Holstein, who with his colleagues is responsible for the passes and access control. There is an entrance with a barrier and three turnstiles and an exit with two barriers and a turnstile XL; a container with two turnstiles and space for a porter.

Peak hours for access control

Martien Timmerman says the soldiers leave in the morning between 4.30am and 6am to participate in the Four Days Marches. IQ-Pass access control ensures that all soldiers can leave the camp within an hour and a half. "Besides participants, there are others who have to enter and leave the camp; catering, the guard, medical personnel for the road and radio personnel." These people are registered in advance and can therefore enter and leave the camp quickly.

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