The Firestone Entertainment Hub in Jamnagar in India has a multiplex indoor and outdoor cinema, Go-Karting track, five-star restaurants, a hotel and luxury shopping under one roof. Owners of the site recently looked for a new fire safety system, and brought in Cavitak Marketing Pvt Ltd to lead on the installation and specification.
Parth Shah, Manager of Emerging Lead Technologies at Cavitak, said: “Being such a large space that incorporates so many different environments, we needed the reliability and standards that come with Japanese engineering and so we looked to Hochiki for their expertise. After meeting with the Hochiki Europe India branch office team and discussing the site’s unique requirements, they recommended the L@titude system.”
The L@titude control and indication product combines hardware and software into a platform, providing life safety for challenging applications, such as the Entertainment Hub. The system offers networking capabilities and accessibility for multiple requirements in large applications. As for networking, it is essential that all areas are protected and connected. However, the Hub has multiple tenants, all with their own requirements and life safety concerns.
Overseeing the project, Sujeet Singh, Senior Sales Manager at Hochiki, said: “Due to the sheer scale of this project, we met with the representatives from each tenant including the hotel, cinema and various restaurants, to better understand their life safety needs. From these detailed conversations we were able to correctly specify individual solutions to help protect each area of the hub.
“For instance, the PVR Cinema required the use of beam smoke detection, whereas the Fern Hotel was better suited to point detection in each bedroom. The entire system was then connected, controlled and monitored through the L@titude system.”
Hochiki was able to install various life safety systems, totalling over 700 devices over the space, all connected through the L@titude control and indication system. The product firm says that the modular nature of L@titude is suited for larger settings like the Entertainment Hub as it can network up to 32 panels with over 4,000 sub address point per panel. It’s also possible to customise each panel with addressable loop detection circuits, conventional detection circuits, relay cards, extra sounder outputs or programmable I/O modules as needed. At the Hub, this allowed the circuits from each tenant to be connected and controlled through one platform.
Reduced system visibility can be a consequence of operating larger facilities. However, L@titude targets these common issues with its seven-inch display panel. As a user interface, containing a concise description of each detection device location and status, duty holders and facility managers have a overview of the system at a glance. If an incident should occur, having the power to add up to 64 users, all with profiles and access permissions, widens the pool of people who can analyse and react to a potential life safety event.
As for monitoring, L@titiude has a network-wide ability to input cause and effect entries, supporting up to 5,000 entries at once with up to 20,000 inputs and 20,000 outputs. The entries can then be compartmentalised into groups.
Parth Shah added: “We’re extremely happy with the numerous benefits of the L@titude system and feel assured knowing the stringent life safety protection that it will provide to the Entertainment Hub’s visitors. We have left the facilities managers feeling confident in running and monitoring such a comprehensive life safety system, all thanks to L@titiude’s advanced technologies and ease of maintenance.”
