Smart Sports Infra For Smart Cities

Why Smart Sports facilities?
Traditionally, sports infrastructure is visualised to be a large facility needing hundreds of crores in investment. This is a flawed approach. Not only do these end up as white elephants, the utilisation is also minimal due to location constraints, bulk of investment going into gallery construction and other facilities that have little or no impact on the actual sport. To address these challenges, there is a 3-Point formula to consider as the theme:
• Taking Sports to the People: Sports infra plan and investment should be governed by the theme of “Taking Sports to the People”. Implying that multiple smaller facilities have to be located across the city so that they are within a 5-km radius for the general population to access them conveniently and use extensively.
• Multi-sport usage: The sports infra developed should support more number of sports and fitness activities and provide users access to various types of sports and games.
• Focused investment: 90 per cent of the investment goes into non-sport infrastructure in a sports facility, for e.g. the seating gallery, but in a smart sports facility 90 per cent of the investment will be focused on the creation of the actual playing surfaces.

Solution
Considering all these factors, and to bring in a fresh and modern approach, Great Sports Infra, created three models to incorporate smart sports facilities as part of the Smart City Mission. These models ensure maximum utilisation at minimal investment.

Products that will be used to facilitate Model 1 and 2 include artificial grass from FieldTurf, interlocking modular sports flooring from SnapSports and synthetic athletic tracks from Porplastic.

Products that will be used to facilitate Model 3 include artificial grass from FieldTurf and interlocking modular sports flooring from SnapSports.

Great Sports Infra has designed these models, considering the population, space and budget constraints, yet ensuring maximum utilisation.

What are the benefits of having such a facility?
• Various sports including Athletics (Track & Field), Basketball, Volleyball, Football, Badminton and Handball can be played on these surfaces.
• Facilities can be utilised for non-sports usage like annual days, daily assemblies and cultural events.
• Products require virtually no maintenance.
• Products are durable and last for many years.

According to Great Sports Infra, this format of sports infrastructure is very ideally suited to be part of the Smart City Mission, and would benefit the general population extensively. The company has built such facilities at the National Public School in Mysore and MDS (Mohana Devi Somani) School, Udaipur.

To know more, visit www.greatsportsinfra.com or write at info@greatsportsinfra.com. Contact: +91 40 27764900 / 5000, Mobile: +91 89786 00348.

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