North Square 2 installs a public address and voice evacuation system from LDA Audio Tech

After the integral renovation carried out by CAD&Na with teams of LDA Audio Tech, this shopping center in Madrid has a new public address system, evacuation by voice and ambient music a 70% more efficient, EN54 certificate.

The mall North Square 2, located in the Madrid town of San Sebastián de los Reyes, has completed a comprehensive renovation of its public address and evacuation system by voice after conducting a study and analysis of the space, more than 147.000 m2, which stars in a large glazed dome of 35 meters high located in the central body of the building, which has been an additional acoustic engineering challenge.

North Square 2 Now has advanced technology in terms of alarm and evacuation systems to face any critical situation in total safety, since LDA Audio Tech equipment allows a phased and controlled evacuation of large masses, following the stipulated emergency plans and in accordance with the most demanding national and international regulations.

Cad's project&Lan and LDA Audio Tech is based on a total renovation of the control equipment, power stages and speakers, to adapt them to the growing demands of the shopping center, with a large influx of public.

Among the improvements made are the adaptation to the latest regulations on voice evacuation for public concurrence surfaces; increased intelligibility and audio quality, a simple and intuitive operation in its management, in addition to space efficiency, by going from four public address cabinets to two.

Other advantages are that the system has been integrated into the IP network of Plaza Norte 2, which confers greater robustness and stability, in addition to a energy savings of more than 70% compared to the previous installation, as new teams perform much more efficient resource management.

LDA Audio Tech's new public address system and voice evacuation, EN54 certificate, del centro comercial Plaza Norte 2 is based on the pre-existing data network of the center.

Despite being interconnected and operating centrally and distributed, all equipment can operate locally and independently to prevent service outages in case communication is lost due to a critical event, ensuring the emission of messages through the microphones installed to organize an emergency evacuation.

Installation equipment

• A system LDA NEO of public address and voice evacuation; a compact all-in-one equipment with advanced functionalities to adapt to all spaces of the commercial enclosure through different audio and evacuation areas. It has five analog audio inputs and eight Class D amplifiers; triple Ethernet interface; remote control and monitoring and redundant cascading. In addition, allows to run simultaneously (in manual and automatic mode) Until 99 pre-recorded messages and the manufacturer's own software NEO Configurator has been installed for the configuration and programming of events.
• Seven systems LDA NEO Extension 8250 And 4500, that expand the scope and capabilities of the main NEO units to configure different public address and evacuation areas.
• An emergency/event dashboard LDA VAP-1.
• A multi-zone microphone MPS-8Z, with eight zone buttons, recall functions and indicators according to EN regulations 54-16.
• An expansion module MSP-8K that adds new programmable buttons for assignment to different evacuation zones.
• A multifunction player RCD-21 with CD, USB and radio for simultaneous playback.
• Racks, chargers and batteries.
• The entire installation is certified according to the European regulation EN 54-16, which regulates the control of voice alarm and indicator equipment in fire detection and alarm systems.

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