London Luton Airport generally has a 'silent terminal' policy and discourages excessive paging calls in its buildings. ADC's brief was therefore to supply and install a powerful but localised paging facility, situated within the specified area of the airport's main check-in hall. Additionally the Airport's own public address and voice alarm had to maintain priority over this paging system.
ADC chose the highly efficient Community R.25-94TX loudspeakers for their power and tightly controlled dispersion characteristics. Four units were installed at high level, set for 100V line usage and driven by a TOA amplifier with a TOA paging panel. The TOA amplifier is also interfaced to the airports main paging system, allowing it to mute local paging if the Airport's own system is being used for paging or voice alarm calls.
ADC's choice of Community is based on long experience, having already installed other Community loudspeakers throughout much of London Luton Airport. These installations have included the larger R-Series R.5-94TX in the Airport's main retail concourse and several hundred Community I/O5 and Cloud Series loudspeakers around the various airport buildings for both general paging and voice alarm.
(Lee Baldock)
