WiLAS Installation & User Guide
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The
‘Wireless Alert Siren’ (WiLAS) System
from EAS was developed to deliver louder, more easily
distinguished “
Lockdown
” and “
Evacuation
” alerts, or other site-specific warnings, more rapidly and at a
significantly lower installed cost, compared to traditional ‘hard-wired’ systems with central control panels.
The
WiLAS System
is a completely wirelessly networked, wirelessly activated alert siren system, with
optional supplementary visual warning devices. The total absence of cabling to distributed power and control
signals around an installed network, means warning devices can be placed where they’re needed to deliver
their warnings to best effect; and because the remote controls are also compact and wireless, they can be
either carried in a pocket, or located at fixed locations anywhere around the site where
WiLAS
is installed.
This not only dramatically improves design flexibility and dramatically lowers response times , it also
removes inherent points of failure (such as centralised power and control cables which, if damaged, could
render the entire system useless) as well as lowers the costs of installation. Simply place the siren (or
optional flashing beacons) where they’re needed around the workplace or site to be covered, place fixed
(optional) activation panels where they’re needed, and distribute wireless handheld remote controls to
authorised operators as required, to ensure optimal site coverage.
Then, in an emergency - whether it be a lockdown condition due to an intruder on site, or an evacuation due
to a fire or chemical spill – simply select the required alert tone on any of the handheld or fixed wireless
controls, and within seconds, every siren and/or beacon is activated. Whether it’s one or one hundred
sirens, or one building or a mine site covering several square kilometres,
WiLAS
improves site safety by
delivering more easily understood warnings.
Configuring a
WiLAS System
for your site is relatively easy. Sirens are placed to deliver best audio
coverage, with each pair of sirens being connected to a Control Station that supplies power and provides the
network connection. As long as any one Control Station is within 300-400 metres (maximum) of at least one
Control Station (but preferably two or more), then any one Control Station that is activated by a wireless
control will repeat the activation/deactivation signal to any other Control Station in range.
In this way, even over areas of several square kilometres, signals can be rapidly repeated, setting off every
siren or flashing beacon in the network - and all without the need for interconnecting cable around the site
between control panels and sirens.