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System Design Template - Cruise Ship (Evac, BGM,

ANC and Paging)

This system design template shows how Vocia products can be used to easily create a vessel-wide paging and
evacuation system. Vocia is a highly reliable solution that provides excellent audio quality while managing all your
paging, background music, and emergency communication requirements. It is powerful, scalable, and flexible, and can
meet a facility’s needs well into the future. A decentralized approach, which places digital signal processing in all of the
endpoints, creates a solution with no single point of failure and provides a means to expand an existing system as needs
grow or change.

The cruise ship market has an extended demand for system availability and safety measures, especially when it comes
to large public areas where crowds assemble. In an emergency, it's critical structured, clear to follow evacuation
directions are given. Vocia is capable of meeting and exceeding that requirement.

Paging system design

Paging System Functionality Scope:

• 7 Paging Stations to provide live pages from the Bar,

Bridge, Casino, Pool, Restaurant, Security
and Theater.

• 2 Emergency Paging Stations to provide live

paging from the Bridge/Helm and Security room.

• 10 Regular Paging Zones and 8 Emergency Zones

• 6 music sources available to entertainment and

dining Zones

• Automatic level adjustment depending on background

noise in the Restaurant and Casino Zones

• An interface with the fire and emergency detection

system to enable the use of the paging system for
emergency evacuation

• Speaker line monitoring to ensure the system is working

• Scheduled announcements of daily activities

• Background music source and level control in the Bar, Casino, Pool, and Restaurant

• Automatically scheduled announcements of the activities happening that day

Copyright 2013-2020 Biamp Systems

http://support.biamp.com/

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Summary of Contents for Vocia ANC-1

Page 1: ...gency it s critical structured clear to follow evacuation directions are given Vocia is capable of meeting and exceeding that requirement Paging system design Paging System Functionality Scope 7 Paging Stations to provide live pages from the Bar Bridge Casino Pool Restaurant Security and Theater 2 Emergency Paging Stations to provide live paging from the Bridge Helm and Security room 10 Regular Pa...

Page 2: ...djustments in response to changes in ambient noise levels PoE CobraNet audio control Enhanced emergency interface between the Vocia paging system and the emergency fire alarm systems Control interface for LSI 16e Message Processor for recorded announcements scheduling Speaker line monitoring device for Vocia Amplifiers VA 8600 Speaker line monitoring device for Vocia Amplifiers VA 8150CV and VA 43...

Page 3: ...ovide a better understanding on the most essential settings inside the software the Zones and Page Code assignment can be previewed below Zones Configuration Pages Codes Emerge Emergency Messages Amplifier Zone Assignment Lower Deck VA 4300CV LSI 16 Em Copyright 2013 2020 Biamp Systems http support biamp com 3 ...

Page 4: ...ecreases as guests move between different areas ANC 1 s have been installed in the restaurant and casino to automatically adjust BGM and paging levels to account for this Zone assignment ten Zones one for each main section of the ship during non emergency operation Additional two paging Zones to all of the upper deck and all of lower deck available Emergency Zone assignment Upon detection of an al...

Page 5: ... The message processor MS 1e is used for hosting non emergency recorded messages and scheduled announcements of daily activities External connections to the system Fire panel connection to the LSI 16e The functionality of the LSI 16e has been tailored to the specific requirements in the EN 54 16 European life safety standard However the LSI 16e and CI 1 are still applicable in installations that r...

Page 6: ... but leaves the system in emergency mode Physical Input 16 returns the system to regular non emergency mode Please refer to the picture on the right or review the full LSI 16e connection documentation here Speaker lines Speaker circuits are being installed as constant voltage speaker lines 70V or 100V can be selected via software In this example all speaker circuits are 70V Select speaker transfor...

Page 7: ...efault to unity gain This allows the system to start working once the file is loaded with minimal adjustments Select the output voltage on the amplifiers to 70V or 100V as needed Adjust the amplifier output level as needed for each zone While at the amplifier s properties go to ELD Assignment tab and assign PLD s if being used Adjust ambient sense microphones input levels and values Check and conf...

Page 8: ...Further reading Vocia Network Communications CI 1 Wiring Guide LSI 16 setup and wiring guide Constant voltage speaker systems Copyright 2013 2020 Biamp Systems http support biamp com 8 ...

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