System Sensor Medical OU Medical Center

Case Study Presbyterian Tower at OU Medical Center and Clear of Care Medical Center City OK Strobes Heat Detectors Smoke Detectors we walked through this high rise System Improves Emergency Response the only Level One Trauma Center in OU Medical Center OUMC provides highest level of care while showcasing the advancements in medicine OUMC includes Children Hospital a Women Newborn and many other patient care areas approximately 2.8 million square feet in buildings in the Oklahoma City Metro Area To this end enhancements of OUMC Tower which has eight floors and interstitial floors recently completed to ensure that patients and staff have the best most comprehensive available to them including a complete of the fire and life safety system we quickly realized that a complete out and build out of the fire and life safety was needed explains Tracy Wagoner engineer at Corporate Energy CEC Ltd Lenexa Kans a design placement from the ground for an entirely new stand alone fire alarm mass notification system fire alarm system adds Felton district general manager at Protection Systems Inc Oklahoma City the time OUMC did not have a we originally designed the of the speakers has been top of the sound of those speakers is fire alarm systems were in place only can the messages be the majority of their building space they are heard crystal clear at watt OUMC wanted to capitalize on the benefits integration of emergency communications ECS Felton continues is used every single It not a voice evacuation system that gets just once a year they use it for multiple Tower NFPA 72 2002 was the pages and it sounds great and the requirements for intelligibility and notification were not yet in place says With a full system install in a fully functional because the military began hospital there were coordination intelligibility requirements we had a to overcome point of reference We reached out to wasn really an issue maintaining the Sensor for recommendations in order to fire system other than when we would come it one step beyond code compliance and areas where it wasn working In that into future code compliance we were servicing and trying to improve operability of the existing system as we found The OUMC facilities communication while installing the new system says was concerned with the integrity of Once the new system went live the old center paging systems OUMC liked the was removed that the regulated and code driven of a fire detection system makes it a One of the keys to this project was effective platform for an ECS solution as involvement and coordination with back plates were easy to install and had the benefit that we didn have to unwire the device for testing and service issues Richard Felton District General Manager at Firetrol Protection Systems Inc rules testing procedures and installation have already been established The was OUMC wanted to implement a for sending code pages into areas In essence OUMC sought intelligible wide reaching system for their pages that would be part of the ECS The key was designing the voice evacuation to serve as the paging system for both paging and automatic paging which be integrated with other systems within facility This involved utilizing about 1,300 Sensor ceiling mounted speakers with the fire detection system through NOTIFIER 3030 panel These speakers spaced more closely than in a standard system with every strobe in the corridor was of explains Felton more the majority are tapped at lower setting That way it was more intelligible though it at a lower volume and the the old days to space more than just one involved were able to enter corridors upon permission from the of staff of the floor as patients left their for treatment or therapy states Wagoner facility was fantastic We would enter that install wiring back boxes and devices those devices as not in service and then those rooms It was a fairly amazing Actual device installation was simplified System Sensor devices back plates easy to install and had the added benefit we didn have to unwire the entire device testing and service issues says Felton The outcome of upgrading the fire and life system into a Fire ECS MNS is an unified system for critical physical security and life while building a foundation for future within the healthcare campus The staff knows that they can rely on the and that the environment of care is System Sensor AVCS21701 5 13