Project Outline
Norwich International Airport (NIA) has a site based fire station, used as preventative, control and reactive to fire and similar emergency issues and events at the airport.
The airport fire station was experiencing staff communications difficulties, particularly during ‘turn out’ alerts. Abletek visited the site to investigate. Our testing and investigation found an aging audio system installation with limited speaker qty and coverage – deemed past economical repair we advised a new audio system installation.
Audio Applications
- Public Address (PA) / Tannoy
- Audio activation system (message playout)
Audio Specification & Technologies
- 100v line, high impedance
- Traditional audio message player (MP3)
Installation Details
Our design solution was based on traditional 100v line. Cables to speakers were installed through existing cable ducting between the main support building and fire engine bays. A single audio broadcast zone was created (all audio to all areas/speakers).
Paging microphones were installed within the main fire station control office (manned 24/7) and to the operational areas on the ground floor.
The installed system was used for general use Public Address (PA) / Tannoy announcements – operated from a standard paging microphone based in the service control room. The duty control officer was responsible for instigating ‘turn out’ alerts via the microphone and/or activation playback of recorded audio message files.
