An eight zone centralised voice evacuation system provides phased evacuation
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A voice evacuation system from Baldwin Boxall has been installed at the iconic Titanic Belfast building.
The attraction – which opened earlier this year – provides an interactive insight into the RMS Titanic with nine galleries going through the life of the ship from its design to its sinking 100 years ago.
An eight zone centralised voice evacuation system provides phased evacuation to all areas of the attraction. Inputs to the system include background music, localised paging microphones, multi-zone microphones and all call fire microphones. Sitting at the heart of the system is Baldwin Boxall’s DSP router the BVRD2M.
The system employs DC line monitoring technology which is one of three monitoring solutions offered by Baldwin Boxall (the BVRDADIM). The Penton loudspeakers were supplied with capacitors and by doing this, says the company, the BVRDADIM allows one amplifier to drive two loudspeaker circuits. If one circuit should suffer a short circuit the BVRADIM will isolate the affected circuit and allow the other circuit to function with only a slight drop in level. The system has amplifier redundancy and is battery backed as standard.
Also installed by G4S Fire Security were two VIGIL Omnicare disabled refuge/toilet alarm systems. The first was a six-way disabled refuge system for the car parks with the second being a larger, 46-way disabled refuge/toilet alarm system for the attraction itself.