Bosch Praesensa improves the safety of Athens Capital hotel guests

The voice evacuation system and multi-zone public address system of Bosch Security sends emergency messages in all spaces of this prestigious and central hotel in the capital of Greece.

Considered an emblematic establishment in the center of the Greek capital, The Athens Capital hotel opened its doors in 1930 Hosting big celebrities since then. After becoming the property of the chain Accor, Specifically its area of historic luxury hotels MGallery, This five-star facility remains a benchmark in the city.

In order to guarantee a first class service, where guest safety is paramount, Its managers have carried out a renovation project of the public address and evacuation system, with the requirement to install an efficient solution that complies with standards in 54 necessary for this type of establishment and, at the same time, Improve guest experience.

The selected solution has been the public address system Praesensa of Bosch Security, Composed of a system controller, four desktop LCD call stations and one wall-mount LCD call station, each with extensions.

The system is enhanced with Eight amplifiers 600 W of eight channels that send emergency messages to the almost Six hundred speakers Bosch that have been deployed to cover all areas of the hotel, including public areas, Halls, Restaurants, basements and the rooms themselves.

As a way to enhance the guest experience during their stay at the hotel, One of the objectives of the project was that the new public address and evacuation solution would also be connected to the televisions in each room..

That's why, in addition to the room speaker, has Connected a controller to the TV of the same, which is controlled and supervised by the PA/EVAC system and overrides the audio of the TV equipment with the transmission of evacuation messages in case of emergency.

In the deployment of this IP-based solution existing cabling and the structure of the facility's IT network could be used to ensure that it met the stated objectives.

The Bosch public address and evacuation system has been integrated by Simon Technologies SA And, As he explains Simon Stamatiadis, Vp. and CEO of this company, "Praesensa has allowed us to meet customer needs with much less equipment, specifically in the number of amplifiers, and using the latest technologies by using the hotel's existing IT structure.".

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