Palmerola International Airport in Honduras has chosen LDA Audio Tech for the installation of its public address, background music and voice evacuation system.

The state-of-the-art equipment made by LDA Audio Tech guarantees passengers’ safety in case of emergency.

Palmerola International Airport opened in December 2021 as the new major airfield in Central America, after more than 6 years of work and $200 million of investment. It is a 40,000 sqm facility that takes over the international operations of the old Tocontín airport in Tegucigalpa, serving both the capital and the entire central area of the country.

This project has brought several challenges to the LDA Audio Tech team, which intensively monitored the commissioning to ensure that all systems and configurations were working flawlessly as the opening date approached.

Previous acoustic studies in the consultancy phase provided the key to understanding the acoustic scope of the project and were complemented by all the prescriptive work carried out by LDA’s commercial department together with the installer.

The system equipment includes the following hardware:

• A single NEO-8060 controller with a total of twelve amplifier NEO Extensions spread over seven locations, interconnected by fibre optics.
• Fifteen ZES-22 arrays for Automatic Gain Control (AGC) and global system sources.
• Nine MPS-8Z multi-zone microphones for the boarding gates (SIME-controlled).

As for the software, the SIME Control and SIME Calendar suites have been installed and configured at the airport, with the CAG modules for automatic gain control and SIP for IP telephony.

Palmerola has 7 flight gates, 40 baggage counters, as many for immigration and emigration operations, as well as staff offices.

Regarding the technology, in addition to X-ray and scanning equipment, half a thousand surveillance and thermographic cameras have been installed for temperature control. The terminal also has automatic check-in terminals and automatic baggage handling systems (BHS).