Athens Capital installs Praesensa by Bosch
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While first-class service is promised, guest safety also needs to be paramount. This aspect of the hotel experience has been ensured as part of a larger plan that has seen the three members of Marriott’s Luxury Collection hotel group in Athens all opt to renovate with modern Bosch public address and voice alarm systems. As the first member of the group to undergo this refurbishment, there was a lot of emphasis placed on finding the right technology for Athens Capital.
The requirement was for an efficient solution that would meet the necessary EN 54 standards of this type of establishment while also enhancing the guest experience. The best way to meet that need was with Praesensa.
The bulk of the project followed a typical hotel voice alarm system with the design, cabling and installation all following the EN 54-16 standards. The installed solution is based around the Praesensa Public Address System consisting of a Praesensa System Controller, four desktop LCD call stations, a wall-mount LCD call station, each with call station extensions.
The system is driven by eight 8-channel 600 W amplifiers which send emergency messages to the nearly 600 Bosch loudspeakers that have been deployed to cover every area of the hotel, including all public areas, corridors, restaurants, basement spaces and the guest rooms themselves.
As a way to enhance the guest experience, a key goal of the project was for the new solution to connect into the television sets in each guest room.
In addition to the room’s loudspeaker, a room controller has been connected to the TV set in each room. This room controller is controlled and supervised by the PA/EVAC system and overrides the TV’s audio with transmission of evacuation messages in case of emergency. The IP-based solution was able to use the existing cabling and IT network structure to ensure the hotel would meet its aims.
Simon Technologies S.A.is the systems integrator behind the project, “Praesensa allowed us to satisfy the needs of the customer with much less equipment – specifically the number of amplifiers – and with the latest technologies by using the existing IT structure of the hotel,” explained Simon Stamatiadis, VP and CEO of Simon Technologies.
