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Avani Hotel

The Avani Hotel, renowned for its comfort and connections, is situated in the heart of Dubai next to the famous Ibn Battuta Mall. Seeking to improve the audio experience for guests, the hotel commissioned a professional distributed AV system to provide zonal background music (BGM) and live paging coverage across the building’s fifteen floors.

Hotel Avani

Background music (BGM), live paging and Public Address for Hotel Avani

The Requirement

The upgrade, designed in partnership with audiovisual integrator Al Yousuf Computer & Telecommunications (L.L.C.). needed to harness the latest streaming and audio technologies to deliver a system capable of meeting these demands.The brief also specified simple volume control and channel selection across the designated zones, controlled both centrally and locally via local IP-connected wall-mount controllers. It was also essential that the audio system could be used for Public Address (PA) purposes.


The Solution

Behind the scenes are two distributed racks, both equipped with VIPEDIA-12-PRO’s, connected utilising the The Requirement
The solution Hotel Avani building’s existing LAN infrastructure. These Dante-enabled audio controllers offer low latency, highquality
BGM and simple integration with the 3rd party audio server, streaming on-demand playlists over Dante IP. Additionally, a cost-effective
mix of V2000 and V400 amplifiers efficiently drive the hundreds of 100V loudspeakers installed across the site. A VIPA-WS Touch-screen controller was deployed centrally to provide the overarching control and live paging, with the benefit of emergency monitoring and message scheduling. This was supplemented by local control provided by the WMC-01 IP-enabled wall-mount controller, enabling staff to select audio sources and further adjust levels via an intuitive interface.


The Result

Zenitel, with the help of Al Yousuf Computer & Telecommunications (L.L.C.), successfully delivered a solution that met all requirements. Hotel Avani now possesses a stateof-the-art AV system where the overall quality and distribution of sound is excellent. Dante compatibility makes the system flexible providing the system maintainers with a powerful yet recognisable interface, which in time could be easily ramped to meet the growing demands of the hotel. Simple control touchpoints ensure that the system can be easily adjusted, changing the atmosphere according to the time of day. Furthermore, the client benefits from the added redundancy, reliability and self-diagnostics usually associated with high-end emergency audio systems, simplifying future maintenance and lowering whole life costs.


Key information

Zenitel Solutions

Public Address and Voice Alarm.
Background music (BGM) and
live paging.

Key Products

VIPEDIA-12-PRO,
V2000 Power
MPS

Market segment
Hospitality

End customer
The Avani Hotel

System Integrator:
Al Yousuf Computer & Telecommunications (L.L.C.)


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