Indoor Mass Notification System: WAVES Autonomous Control Unit (ACU) and Supervised Speakers and Strobes

WAVES (Wireless Audio Visual Emergency System) Autonomous Control Unit (ACU) is an Indoor Mass Notificaton System, which provides supervised paging, background music, messaging, and emergency voice communications with 24 VDC battery backup. The WAVES ACU is a Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) compliant Individual Building System, which provides full control of building notification appliances such as loudspeakers and strobe lights. The ACU can be connected to a WAVES Network Interface Module and be controlled by a base-wide WAVES Mass Notification System (MNS).

This single channel system is capable of delivering 40 watts of supervised high fidelity audio power and 2 amps of supervised 24 VDC synchronized strobe power. It comes standard with an on-board digital voice messaging system with 8 standard messages, a hand-held microphone, power supply/battery charger, antenna and numerous additional features. In a base-wide mass notification mode, the WAVES transceiver functions as the audio and data input/output link.

The ACU is expandable to 5280 watts utilizing the ACU PB80/4 (80 watts and 4 amps of strobe power), the ACU PB160 (160 watts) or ACU PB320 (320 watts) supervised audio power boosters. Additional expansion options include audio splitters, addressable paging splitter and telephone zone controller; supervised volume control and remote microphone; and a remote microphone expansion module.

The ACU integrates with fire alarm systems and provides a signal for temporary deactivation of fire-alarm audible notification devices as required by UFC. The fire alarm system appliances are reactivated after the mass notification voice messages are delivered.

The WAVES ACU also features real-time monitoring and reporting of all system components and is compatible with all Cooper Notification's power supply, speakers, strobes, and clusters (link to supervised strobes and speakers).

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