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Voice evacuation systems provide clear, intelligible emergency messages to ensure people are evacuated from buildings quickly and without confusion during an emergency. They are categorized based on their functionality from V1 systems that provide only automatic evacuation messages to V5 engineered systems. Proper acoustic design is important to ensure message are loud and clear enough to be understood by all occupants. Standards and best practices exist to guide the design, installation, and maintenance of voice evacuation systems.

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Voice Evacuation Systems1

Voice evacuation systems provide clear, intelligible emergency messages to ensure people are evacuated from buildings quickly and without confusion during an emergency. They are categorized based on their functionality from V1 systems that provide only automatic evacuation messages to V5 engineered systems. Proper acoustic design is important to ensure message are loud and clear enough to be understood by all occupants. Standards and best practices exist to guide the design, installation, and maintenance of voice evacuation systems.

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VOICE EVACUATION SYSTEMS

WHY HAVE VOICE EVACUATION


SYSTEM?

• Research has proven that in an emergency people will


react without confusion or panic if they receive a clear,
intelligible message.

• Bells and sounders only give a warning, they do not


indicate the nature of the emergency.

• Phased evacuation using clear, easily understood, pre-


recorded messages ensures that even untrained
personnel are evacuated speedily and efficiently.
TYPICAL VES Schematic
Voice Alarm system categorize
• V1 : Automatic evacuation (No microphone)
• V2 : Live emergency messages
– (Automatic plus All Call Emergency microphone)
• V3 : Zonal live emergency messages
– (Automatic plus Zonal Emergency microphone)
• V4 : Manual controls
– (Automatic plus Zonal Emergency microphone &
message control)
• V5 : Engineered systems
– (e.g. Wembley Stadium, Ascot Racecourse)
Voice alarm standards
• Design, Installation, Commissioning and
Maintenance
– BS 5839-8: 2008
• System can be link with PA/BGM system then
cable should be fire rated as fire authority
requirement
Acoustic Design
• When selecting loudspeakers for a particular
application, there are two basic requirements to
take into account.
– 1) Sound Pressure Level (SPL) – How loud!
– 2) Intelligibility – How clear!
• Output level should be such that messages can be
comfortably heard by all people with normal
hearing in 95% of the area.
• The information must be intelligible (understood)
Acoustic Design
• ACOUSTICALLY EASY (LESS than 75dBA Ambient /
RT60 1.5 Sec - Little Echo)
– •Shop units
– •Office blocks
– •Hotels
• ACOUSTICALLY DIFFICULT (MORE than 75dBA
Ambient / RT60 1.5 Sec - More Echo) Public areas
of:
– •Shopping malls
– •Cinemas, theatres
– •Airports, railway stations
– •Swimming pools and leisure centres
Evacuation Method
Sample Fire Evacuation Methods
• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/maintenance/fir
e/documents/UCLFire_TN_103.pdf
• http://www.uq.edu.au/hupp/attachments/wo
rkplace-
hs/Fire__Emergency_Evacuation_Procedures.
pdf
• http://www.scdhec.gov/health/licen/hleepsta
tement.pdf

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