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FOHHNTransportation

Transportation

Concourse-wide announcements that remain intelligible over the noise floor of a live terminal.

Coverage
Per pier
Standard
EN 54 pathways
Uptime
Redundant
The acoustic challenge
  • High ceilings, glass façades and a constantly moving noise floor.
  • Announcements are safety-critical and must be understood first time.
  • Zones must be addressed independently, gate by gate.
The CaesarTechs engineering approach
  • Long-throw steered columns fire down the concourse instead of at the glass roof.
  • Zone-by-zone addressing with ambient-noise-aware level strategy.
  • Redundant network paths and supervised amplifier channels.
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Recommended system

The stack we would specify for this environment.

Loudspeaker families
Linea Focus · Focus Venue
Amplification & DSP
System Amplifier DI-8.1000
Beam steering strategy
Long-throw beams down the concourse
Intelligible

STI held over a live terminal noise floor.

Zoned

Gate-level addressing without over-announcing.

Resilient

Redundancy engineered into the topology.

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Integration scope
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Mounted on columns and structural mullions, color-matched

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Coordinated with FIDS, PA/VA and life-safety pathways

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Commissioning measurements per zone documented

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Visual reference

How it looks in the space.

Transportation audio integration reference 1
Transportation audio integration reference 2
Transportation audio integration reference 3
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Acoustic telemetry

The numbers behind the design.

Reverberation decay · RT60 4s
0 dB-60 dB
STI (predicted)
0.66
Direct / reverb
42%
SPL variance
± 5.3 dB
Throw distance
48 m
Vertical dispersion
Beam angle
-16°
Opening
10°
Mount height
16 m
Steering
Digital
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Signal chain

Microphones, UC codecs, media players and the emergency interface arrive on a redundant network layer with priority routing.

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Zone planner

Select the zones in your transportation project.

Zones selected
3
Beam channels
5
Amplifier estimate
2 × DI-8.1000
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Coverage simulator

Pre-loaded with typical transportation room data.

Adjust the room, steer the beam and export a branded coverage study for your project file.

Select the space
Scale

Very long throw across a hard, reflective volume with high ambient noise. Multiple zones and intelligibility compliance drive the design.

ViewCovered 60/168 · marginal 36
9.0 m33.3 m
Conventional loudspeaker — same room
9.0 m33.3 m60 m × 34 m × 18 m · Airport terminalDesign simulation — estimated coverage, not a measurement

Click any listening position to move the virtual listener · drag the array to change mounting height · every value is a design estimate until site measurement.

Room geometry · Airport terminal

Showing the parameters that matter most for a airport. Switch to “Build my room” for the full geometry set.

LayersSeats covered 6/14 · drag the array, beam handle or listener
Conventional loudspeaker

Fixed vertical dispersion sprays energy at ceilings and rear walls. Reflections smear consonants.

Fohhn Beam Steering
10m19m29m38m48m-16°6.5m82 dB · 30m

Drag the array to set mounting height, drag the handle to steer, drag anywhere to move the listener.

Live acoustic telemetry
1 beam10° coverageRT60 4.0s45 dB(A)Beam locked
0 m48 mSteered line source — 3 dB / doublingConventional — 6 dB / doubling
STI gain
+55
D/R
7.6 dB
Uniformity
±2 dB
Coverage profile along the audience
Front to rear · 48 m · 1 beam at -16° / 10°
84 dB
81 dB
79 dB
78 dB
77 dB
83 dB
83 dB
82 dB
82 dB
81 dB
81 dB
73 dB
73 dB
73 dB
0 m24 m48 m
Beam steered Conventional
Front-to-rear variation
±5.4 dB
Conventional variation
±10.8 dB
Rear headroom over noise
+28 dB
Array mouth / ceiling
6.5 m of 16 m
Suggested family
Focus Venue / Focus Modular
Amplification
System Amplifier DI-8.1000

Steered energy holds level across the seating plane instead of falling away behind the first rows — indicative design estimate, not a measurement.

Live audition · hear the configuration

Real programme material — a recorded announcement, a music bed or a pink-noise test signal — played through the current room, beam and noise settings.

Audition idle
Direct / reverberant
+6.0 dB
Room decay in ear
4.0 s RT60
Noise floor
45 dB(A)

Beam on the listener at 30 m — direct sound stays forward of the room tail, articulation holds at STI 0.83. Indicative sound design simulation, not a measurement or a Fohhn recording.

Dolby surround test

Channel-by-channel identification for a 5.1 / Atmos room. Tap any speaker to fire that channel, or run the full sweep.

Listener

Output routing is detected on first playback.

Live simulation
Conventional STI
0.28
Beam steered STI
0.83
Direct / reverberant
7.6 dB
Suggested family
Focus Venue / Focus Modular
SPL at listener
82 dB
Headroom over noise
+37 dB

Beam locked on the listener — approx. +55 points of speech-intelligibility improvement versus a conventional system in the same room.

Drag inside the steered room to move the listener. Indicative simulation — not a measurement of a specific project.

Engineering study · project record
Engineering notes · auto-generated, editable

Design simulation — estimated performance until site measurement

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Typical project profile
International terminal
Pier-by-pier steered coverage
Transit hub
Zoned PA with supervised amplification
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Delivery program
PHASE 01
Acoustic survey

Site measurement of RT60, noise floor and geometry against the architect's model.

PHASE 02
Coverage modelling

Beam plots per zone with predicted STI and SPL maps issued as a report.

PHASE 03
Design & BOM

Loudspeaker schedule, amplifier count, cabling and containment drawn in CAD.

PHASE 04
Supply & staging

Equipment pre-configured and load-tested in the CaesarTechs facility.

PHASE 05
Installation

Mounting details coordinated with the fit-out contractor and MEP package.

PHASE 06
Commissioning & handover

On-site tuning, as-built documentation, operator training and remote monitoring.

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Engineering questions

We model the room in acoustic software and issue beam plots with predicted STI for every zone of the transportation space before a single bracket is ordered.

Yes. Beams are steered digitally, so re-tuning after a fit-out change is a software session — no ladders, no re-rigging.

Slim column profiles in custom finishes, flush or recessed where the architecture allows. Most clients see nothing at first glance.

The DSP core supports prioritised emergency broadcast paths and supervised monitoring alongside the everyday program audio.

CaesarTechs provides remote monitoring, firmware management and an SLA-backed response with local engineers.

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Other audio environments
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Let's design the audio for your transportation project.

Share your drawings and we will return a coverage plan, a bill of materials and a commissioning scope.

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