Slavko Hojska and Marin Medved accepted the awards on behalf of the Football Club Osijek, and Stjepan Šarčević on behalf of Alarm Automatika.
Alarm automatika and Football School Osijek are winners of the prestigious Croatia Grand Prix Security awards!
Croatia Grand Prix Security is traditionally assigned to institutions, companies, local community and individuals that gain significant results in safety and security. Award is central event of the Croatian Security Days, which are successfully organized by the Croatian Association of Security Managers for many years.
Alarm automatika and Football School Osijek this year wins two awards for the project of the protection of Opus Arena in Osijek – for the best project of the business sector in achieving community safety and for the most representative project of the security system.
New Football stadium Opus Arena in Pampas, Osijek is the most modern stadium in Croatia and the only one that is equipped according to the demanding 4. category of UEFA standards. Regarding recommendations and previous experience in designing and implementing security systems on sport fields, especially football fields, design of all security systems was entrusted to Alarm automatika. After the public tender process, implementation of integral security system was also entrusted to Alarm automatika.
Project included video surveillance system, external to protect the perimeter and surroundings of the stadium and internal to protect the building itself, special video surveillance of the stands that is used to record the entire auditorium during the match in high resolution, which enables the identification of each spectator, which is useful in case of incidents, access control inside the facility, visitors entrance control integrated with ticketing system, control of the vehicle entrance to the parking lot through the LPR system and parking ticket reading, and EVAC integrated with the fire alarm system. As part of the project, software solutions developed by Alarm automatika and designed especially for football stadiums and were used. Among other things, software enables integration of access/entrance control with ticket sale.
Implemented system enables very quick identification of incident situations, identification and monitoring of every miscreant and is a very effective tool in preventing vandalism at all events that will be held in Opus Arena. Developed graphical interfaces enable simple and quick use by all types of users (security guards, police, sales, marketing).

