Learn more about: Outdoor Sound | How Noise is Reduced
Many buildings contain hard floors, walls, ceilings, glass, machinery, HVAC equipment, and other surfaces or equipment that create or reflect sound.
The result can be an environment where people have difficulty hearing conversations, instructions, paging announcements, alarms, and other important sounds.
Manufacturing & Industrial Facilities
Machinery, compressors, motors, fans, conveyors, generators, and production equipment can create continuous high noise levels.
Noise-control solutions can help:
- Protect workers’ hearing
- Improve communication
- Make alarms and warnings easier to hear
- Reduce fatigue and stress
- Improve concentration and productivity
- Help workers recognize unusual equipment sounds
- Improve the overall working environment
Learn more about how noise can be reduced in organizations.
Warehouses & Distribution Centers
Large open spaces with concrete floors, high ceilings, machinery, forklifts, and material-handling equipment can produce substantial background noise and reverberation.
Reducing reflected and equipment noise can make paging announcements, emergency instructions, alarms, and person-to-person communications easier to understand.
Schools
Cafeterias, gymnasiums, classrooms, auditoriums, and multipurpose rooms can become extremely noisy because sound reflects from hard surfaces.
Acoustic treatment can reduce reverberation and make it easier for students to hear teachers, teachers to communicate with students, and everyone to understand paging and emergency announcements.
Restaurants & Dining Areas
Restaurant noise presents a different problem.
Conversations from many tables combine with dishes, silverware, music, service activity, and reflected sound. As background noise increases, diners naturally speak louder, causing neighboring tables to do the same.
Acoustic treatments can reduce reverberation and background noise so diners can more comfortably hear and understand the people sitting at their own table.
The objective isn’t to create a silent restaurant. It is to maintain an enjoyable atmosphere while improving conversation and acoustic comfort.
Improve Security and Life-Safety Communications
Noise reduction can also make security and life-safety systems more effective.
Even the best communication system has limited value if background noise prevents people from understanding the message.
Reducing unwanted noise can improve the effectiveness of announcements:
IP Paging • Intercoms • Emergency Communications • Audible Alarms • Security Systems • Equipment Warnings
For example, an emergency event could activate an IP paging announcement, notify security personnel, display nearby surveillance cameras, control selected doors through the access-control system, and activate visual notification devices.
Reduce unwanted noise so important sounds can be heard and understood.
Need Help With a Noise Problem?
Whether you are dealing with a noisy manufacturing facility, warehouse, school, restaurant, data center, or server farm, our sound specialists can evaluate the environment and recommend an appropriate solution.
To request a noise assessment please Call: 914-944-3425, email: dennis@kintronics.com, or use our contact form.