Personalised announcements, intelligent lighting, per-court music and live dashboards — all powered by your Playtomic bookings. Zero staff. Zero effort.
And the same bookings are read for trends. Occupancy and revenue, week on week, so an hour that has quietly stopped selling reaches you while there is still time to fill it — not in next quarter's accounts.
Integrates with Playtomic — used by 8,000+ venues across Europe
The Court Intel dashboard — manage your entire venue from anywhere
Player names, time remaining, up next — with your branding and QR codes
Per-court control with dimming — on before you arrive, off after you leave
Per-court music zones with welcome announcements and closing messages
Most padel venues deal with the same frustrations every single day.
Court lights left on for hours after the last booking. Every night, every court — it adds up fast.
Players arrive to empty courts with no greeting. Nothing that makes your venue feel premium or memorable.
Someone has to remember to turn off lights, stop music, and lock up — or pay staff to do it.
Players lose track of time. The next group arrives to find the court still occupied.
Court Intel reads your Playtomic bookings, runs your venue, and keeps watching the numbers once it has.
A physical button on each court captures the last 60 seconds of play and sends the clip straight to every player's phone. They share it on social media — your venue goes viral. Every clip is branded with your club's logo.
Every booking feeds an occupancy and revenue picture built from your own figures. When a Tuesday evening starts slipping, or an hour you normally fill goes quiet, you hear about it that morning — not in next quarter's accounts.
Players hear their names when they arrive: "Jack, Daniel and Euan — your court is ready." Personalised closing messages too.
Lights on 1 minute before each booking, off 2 minutes after. Per-court control — only courts in use are lit.
Independent volume, playlist and genre per court. Players can pick from approved playlists via QR code.
See every court in real time. Toggle lights, send messages, view cameras, and manage your venue from anywhere.
Live view and recording for every court. Watch from the dashboard, review incidents, power the replay feature.
Shows who's playing, time remaining, up next — plus your club branding and social media QR codes.
Dim for atmosphere, full brightness for matches. Set custom levels per court from the dashboard.
Refreshes every 5 minutes from Playtomic. New booking? Cancellation? Everything adjusts automatically.
Send text-to-speech messages to any individual court instantly from the dashboard. Announcements, reminders, anything.
Players receive a unique entry code when they book. The gate or door unlocks automatically at their session time — no staff needed to let them in. Codes expire when the booking ends.
Radar presence sensors detect when someone is on court without a booking. Court lights pulse erratically, a persistent audio warning plays at full volume, and a full-screen alert locks the court display — all unmutable until they leave or book.
Players scan a QR code on the court screen to rent rackets, buy balls, or order refreshments. Payment via Apple Pay or card. No staff needed — orders appear on your dashboard instantly.
Hawk-Eye for every court. Players challenge a call, AI generates a slow-motion replay with ball tracking and court line overlay in under 8 seconds. IN or OUT — no more arguments. 3 challenges per set.
Run Americano, Mexicano and Round Robin tournaments directly from the court screens. Automated draw generation, live scoring, leaderboards, and announcements. Players check in, play, and get results — no paper scorecards.
If your courts are already switched by a PLC, Court Intel talks to it directly over Modbus. On a recent install we read and wrote an existing Schneider panel with no reprogramming, no engineer’s laptop and no site visit — the unit was posted out and commissioned remotely.
Today’s bookings are cached on the unit. If the venue’s broadband fails, lights carry on following the schedule instead of a booked court sitting dark. Yesterday’s cache is refused, so it never runs on stale data.
The unit rewrites the desired state every 60 seconds rather than only on changes, so lights come back by themselves. The unit restarts in well under a minute — worst case is roughly two minutes dark, with nobody called out.
We are alerted automatically if a unit goes offline — and also in the quieter failure, where the unit is perfectly healthy but its booking feed has stopped answering and the lights have quietly stopped following bookings.
Opening, changeover and closing checks live on your team’s phones instead of a clipboard nobody fills in. Staff tap the tag at the court, store room, plant room or toilets and only that location’s checks appear — nets and sand, bins, fridge temperatures, tills reconciled, doors and gates secure. Photos attach where evidence matters, faults are raised the moment they are spotted, and the manager sees the whole day in one view.
Create an account, claim your unit and manage your subscription from the website. Licences are tied to the hardware, so a unit that arrives pre-configured links itself to the right account rather than creating a duplicate.
A wall-mounted smart screen acts as the player's command centre — showing live booking info, music controls, and security alerts.
Live Court View
Player names, time remaining, next booking, music controls
Unauthorised Use Alert
Screen locks, lights pulse, QR code to book instantly
Venue Dashboard
Live camera feeds, bookings, music control, lighting — manage from anywhere
A standard 9-module DIN enclosure that clips onto the same 35 mm rail as everything else in your board — or a sealed wall box where there is no board to work with. Either way it takes 24 V and an Ethernet drop and speaks Modbus to your lighting. Your electrician has fitted a hundred things that look exactly like it.
Example installation — controller, per-court metering and lighting switch
Shown on 35 mm top-hat rail beside a typical breaker. Metering and switching are marked where they are still in development.
Example installation — controller with a standard MID energy meter
The meter is a standard MID-approved DIN unit reading on the same RS485 pair the controller already uses — your electrician fits the part they always fit, and we read it.
Example enclosure — where there is no panel to mount in
The same controller in a sealed wall box for venues with no distribution panel to work with — Ethernet or LTE, RS485 out to the lighting, and the screen on the front where staff can see it.
Plug the Court Intel unit into power and connect to your WiFi.
Enter your Playtomic credentials. Court Intel syncs instantly.
Connect speakers and pair your smart switches for lighting.
Courts are automated. Announcements, lights, music — handled.
We installed Court Intel at On Padel and the reaction from players has been incredible. They love hearing their name when they arrive — it makes the whole experience feel premium. And we've cut our evening electricity bill significantly.Tim Sharrock — On Padel, Warrington
Court Intel lights a court when it has a paid booking, and switches it off two minutes after play ends. Nothing else. No timers left running, no lights burning over an empty court.
Example: 8 courts — £60 per month. A single 320W court left on four hours a day wastes more than that on its own.
All prices exclude VAT. Multi-site operators: your court count is counted across the group, so every additional site moves the whole estate closer to the best rate.
Which one? If you want your lights to follow your bookings, you want the controller — that is the part that saves you money every night. If you only want to know what your courts are doing, Analytics reads your Playtomic bookings and tells you, with nothing to fit and nobody on site. Plenty of clubs start with the second and add the first later.
Book a demo, ask a question, or register your interest. We'll get back to you within 24 hours.
Every hour of your week by how full it really gets, what each day took, and the gaps worth chasing. No hardware, no card to start.
Start the free fortnight →A short call with your own venue on screen — your real occupancy, what your courts took, and where the gaps are.
Request a demo →Tell us about your courts and lighting panel and we will come back with what an installation would cost you.
Ask for a quote →One short form, whichever you pick. We answer within one working day.