Comprehensive smart sound solution for modern airport
Thousands of flights, thousands of passengers! How can diverse information be delivered accurately and promptly to the right areas across a vast and bustling airport?
At an airport, the sound system does more than deliver timely emergency alert and routine announcement. It also plays vital role in providing flight information, guiding passenger, and supporting airport operation. Given the diverse functional areas, high passenger traffic and need for coordination between multiple systems, an airport sound system must meet several key requirement: accurate announcement, flexible zone management, intelligent automation, high reliability, and future scalability. TOA is proud to provide comprehensive sound solution deployed at major airport facilities, including Noi Bai International Airport and Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
So, what key factors should be considered when selecting a sound system for airport?
1. Flexible Announcement Zoning for Different Functional Areas
From departure hall and check-in counter to waiting areas, boarding gate, and baggage claim areas, each location within an airport has its own announcement requirement. A suitable sound system should support flexible zoning, allowing operator to select audio source and deliver the appropriate information to the intended areas. TOA VX-3000 system can deliver live announcement, pre-recorded message and background music to individual speaker zone or groups of zone, making information management more convenient in large-scale airport environment. Announcement priority can also be configured to ensure smooth system operation and appropriate message handling during emergency.
2. Automated Flight Announcement to Reduce Manual Operation
Flight information can change continuously throughout the day, including departure time, boarding gate, flight delay, and boarding call. TOA VX-3000 can be integrated with Flight Information Display System (FIDS) and Airport Operational Database (AODB) to enable more seamless, automated announcement based on updated flight information. This helps passengers receive the information they need in a timely manner. The system can also support announcement in multiple languages, helping international passengers access essential information more easily.
3. Automatic Volume Adjustment Based on Ambient Noise for Clear Announcement
Noise level vary across airport areas and throughout the day. In particularly noisy environment, ambient sound can make announcement difficult to hear and understand. When selecting an airport sound system, it is important to consider zoning capability, sound coverage design, speech intelligibility and automatic volume adjustment. VX-3000 features automatic volume adjustment based on actual ambient noise level, helping simplify system operation and reduce the need for constant manual adjustment. In addition, selecting the right speakers, determining optimal installation position and calculating sound coverage during the design stage are essential to ensuring that passengers can clearly hear announcement without having to increase the volume uniformly throughout the entire airport.
4. High Reliability with Intelligent Redundancy
At an airport, information is critical and the sound system must be ready to operate at all time. In addition to delivering timely, diverse and accurate information, TOA VX-3000 system offers high reliability, with EN 54 certification and intelligent redundancy features. Equipment status monitoring and fast, accurate fault detection help maintain system availability and support continuous operation.
5. Scalability to Meet the Airport Future Growth
Airport may expand their operation, add new terminal, extend functional areas or integrate additional management system over time. With highly flexible and extensive scalability of up to 160 frames, 1,920 audio inputs, and 2,560 speaker zones, the VX-3000 can accommodate a wide range of airport project requirements and system configuration. Airport projects are highly specialized, large-scale, and complex, requiring extensive expertise in system design, configuration, simulation, and installation.
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