The new Palmerola International Airport in Honduras has equipped with a facility-wide public address, background music and voice evaculation system incorporating a variety of components from Spain-based LDA Audio Tech.
The 40,000-square-meter facility took over the international operations of the old Tocontín airport in Tegucigalpa, serving both the capital and the entire central area of the country. The project has presented several challenges to the LDA Audio Tech team, which monitored the commissioning to ensure that all systems and configurations were working optimally as the opening date approached.
Previous acoustic studies in the consultancy phase provided the key to understanding the acoustic scope of the project and were complemented by all the prescriptive work carried out by LDA’s commercial department together with the installer. The system equipment includes the following hardware: a single NEO-8060 controller with a total of 12 amplifier NEO Extensions spread over seven locations, interconnected by fiber optics; 15 ZES-22 arrays for automatic gain control (AGC) and global system sources; and 9 MPS-8Z multi-zone microphones for the boarding gates (SIME-controlled).
As for the software, the SIME Control and SIME Calendar suites have been installed and configured at the airport, with the CAG modules for automatic gain control and SIP for IP telephony.
