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The company also recently completed a project to install new and enhanced CIS and PA equipment at numerous stations including Wilnecote, Wellington, Acton Bridge, Bedworth and Worcester Shrub Hill.
A project to install helppoints and deliver smart card validator schemes is nearing its conclusion on behalf of London Midland. Help Points were installed at 129 stations and validators at 29 stations. Fone-Alarm Installations is also currently in the process of installing ticket vending machines at specified locations in the West Midlands.
Arriva Trains Wales
The company’s relationship with Arriva Trains Wales began in the early 1990’s after it installed CIS at Cardiff Central Station, plus a small number of stations on the Valley Lines. The success of that project – a pilot scheme for Project Inform Cymru on behalf of Wales and West – provided Fone-Alarm Installations with a blueprint for rolling out CIS schemes, PA and Help Points at stations in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucester and Wales.
Since then, Fone-Alarm Installations has delivered various CIS, PA and CCTV schemes across the Arriva Trains Wales network. NSIP CIS installations were earmarked for 150 stations in total and the scheme is nearing its completion. This extensive three-year project, which is due to conclude this month will see CIS at all the stations and PA at the majority of stations in Wales.
Another recently completed project saw the upgrade of the integration of automated PA interfaced to existing amplifier systems on 124 Southeastern
partnership with Kestrel Telecom, the company is providing a Network Rail and London Underground-type approved telephone concentrator for signal post telephones. The Kestrel Hawk KETS design provides a full and effective replacement for the Whitely PETS system such that, for all practical purposes, the working methods are identical. The KETS design provides an alternative solution to the provision of the Whiteley Public Emergency Telephone System (PETS) applications. The advantages of the Kestrel KETS system are: • cost (the KETS system is typically around 5 per cent of the alternative system costs)
• simplicity of installation • simplicity and speed of operation • identical operation to the PETS system at the signaller’s control panel
• signaller’s task in the event of fault occurring
• ability to work over exceptionally noisy circuits
• ability to ring out to all phones, even if one or more is left off hook
stations. The new system provides clients with automated controlled speech for train information. FAI has also very recently been awarded the contract to replace the CRT’s at 33 stations. These defunct displays will be replaced with current LED and TFT display technology.
First Capital Connect projects Since February 2012, Fone-Alarm Installations has worked on various communications projects for First Capital Connect.
Ticket counter induction loops,
CIS, PA and radio public address have benefited from enhancements. The company also recently completed CIS installations between West Hampstead and Bedford, a project which provided new CIS on platform extensions. Fone-Alarm Installations is currently delivering CIS and PA enhancement to stations between Finsbury Park and Cambridge.
Design and product development Fone-Alarm Installations designed and installed the original radio public address for the London Underground. In
• facility to interface to other PABXs • no outstation power required (fully line powered with 12 hour UPS from control unit)
• the ability to replace existing PETS systems with the new KETS with minimum system changes when interfaced on a Hawk Concentrator
• significant reduction of maintenance requirements.
Horner said: ‘We offer design and product development to our client and continue to work hard at building relationships with them. ‘We provide the service and delivery they expect, as evidenced by the long- term projects we have already delivered and continue to deliver within the rail industry. ‘We pride ourselves on having a committed, trained and diverse staff to undertake the management, design and supervision of those projects as well as the on-site skills to deliver communications and electrical solutions.’ •
Tel: (01737) 22367
www.fonealarm.co.uk
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