Bosch provides a complete security system to Krakow conference centre

The infrastructure implemented includes an evacuation system, fire detection and public address, as well as intrusion alarms, access control and conferencing and video surveillance systems. The latter is based on the Video Management System, as well as in different types of cameras such as Flexidome IP panoramas 7000.

Krakow is the second largest city and one of the oldest in Poland, and the International Conference and Entertainment Centre (ICE) is its commercial and cultural flagship, and its views allow you to contemplate some of the most famous monuments of the city.

Conferences take place at ICE, Exhibitions, Parties, seminars and concerts, with audiences ranging from a few dozen to several thousand attendees. Changing spatial arrangements and wide range of events pose challenges in getting the public safe and secure at all times while enjoying the best sound and acoustics..

Its large spaces represent a great challenge for the designers of evacuation systems. The sound coming from the evacuation speakers must be powerful and intelligible to inform each guest clearly of what to do, and speakers must be discreet, mixing with the background so as not to alter the space of the performance or the audience.

The solution was found in the hemispherical speakers of Bosch, that are part of the public address system and evacuation by voice Praesideo. As a technician comments: “If we had opted for standard speakers for the evacuation system, we would have needed quite a few units to establish uniform sound coverage throughout the building. Using hemispherics placed directly under the roof, five speakers have turned out to be enough to do the job, also merging with the aesthetics of the room”.

This evacuation system is part of Bosch's comprehensive safety and communications package that has been installed at ICE that includes fire detection systems, Video surveillance, and public address, as well as intrusion alarms, access control and conferencing systems.

Video surveillance in the installation is supported by the Bosch Video Management System, as well as in different types of cameras such as Flexidome IP panoramas 7000, that have a resolution of 12 Megapixels and high frame rates, combined with a fisheye lens. These cameras provide a complete view of 180 Or 360 Degrees, no blind spots, and allow you to easily capture moving objects. In this way it is possible to improve the quality of video surveillance solutions.

The FPA modular plant 5000, equipped with point and linear smoke and heat detectors, is responsible for fire detection. In the most representative rooms, the invisible serial fire detectors have been installed 500 recessed ceiling mount. With all this, Bosch provided the installation 2.000 fire detectors.

Convention for the Protection of Heritage

All this infrastructure was completed for the ten-day event that took place last July: the United Nations Annual Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This group is responsible for designating which places should be protected as areas of great cultural or natural importance., as Stonehenge, Glacier Bay or the Great Barrier Reef.

The conference was attended by 1.966 UNESCO delegates, as well as a thousand service providers and journalists, and some 700 police and security officers. Around 50 side events took place, next to the 35 main held at the ICE, for which more than 20.000 Publications, and audiovisual systems were used intensively.

At the heart of multilingual communication, where simultaneous interpretations were managed, Bosch provided (the more 1.500 Participants) your conferencing system solutions, through its Integrus language distribution system and DCN conferencing solutions.

Access control was also of vital importance for the proper functioning of the event.. In the current tense political climate, high security must be maintained not only within the place, but also outside, at access and parking points. Bosch security solutions helped achieve and coordinate these goals, without ICE needing the presence of more guards and security agents.

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