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Sound Masking

Working noise levels:

Between 42 and 48 dBA

Advantages:

Conversation privacy

Noise reduction

It improves concentration

Productivity increase

Project cost reduction

It increases the flexibility of the building

Quick return on investment

Background music and announcement system 

Uses:

In commercial offices, call centers, open work spaces, hotels, reception halls, adjacent areas to acoustically confidential spaces

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Looking for silence
A common misconception is that controlling noise and looking for silence can be the best possible strategies to obtain the best acoustic results in a working space.

In the same way that we have standards for temperature, illumination and air quality, there also exists an acoustic comfort zone.

The acoustic comfort zone is determined based on the ambient sound of the place, or the continual level of sound that characterizes it. If the ambient sound conditions are very noisy, it becomes irritating and tiring. If the conditions are too silent, conversations and noises are easily heard, affecting privacy and concentration.

In open work spaces, ambient sound is so low that conversations can be heard from a 15 meter distance.

Throughout the space, there are constant oscillations, increasing and decreasing the noise levels in a way that makes it more difficult to eliminate distractions caused by noise problems.

Achieving acoustic comfort®

Sound masking is part of an integral proposal to provide users of an acoustically comfortable space. Currently, this is the only acoustic treatment that can keep the noise levels between 42 and 48 dBA.

The system consists on a speaker network that generates an electronically generated sound and distributes it in an uniform way. Conversations and noises that people generate when they work are covered by the masking, making them hard to be heard and thus, reducing distractions and providing more privacy. Sound variations though the space are reduced, the environment seems less noisy and distractions diminish. Through this same speaker system, background music can be added or announcement can be made.

ACCUMASK

Success cases:

3M Canada Inc. / Allstate Insurance / American Express / American Red Cross / AT&T / Bell Canada / Blue Cross / Canon Inc. / Daimler Chrysler / Deloitte & Touche / Dow Corning / Dow Jones & Company / Dupont / Ernst & Young / Ericsson / Esso Petroleo Canada / Hewlett Packard / Kodak Canada / IBM Corporation / Philips / Procter & Gamble / Royal Bank / Xerox.

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Accumask sound masking system consists on a speaker network, typically installed between the slab and the dropped ceiling, that distribute an electronically generated sound, developed through years of acoustic engineering study. This sound has the objective of increasing the ambient sound and unify it. In this way, conversations and most noises that are generated by daily activities are almost impossible to hear and hard to understand.
The platform of this system is our first big product, Scamp, that was elaborated more than 20 years ago. Therefore, we can guarantee the excellent performance of this new generation. In the redesign of this product, digital technology was introduced to its components in order to improve precision and flexibility significantly, and expanding the strengths of the original system.

Accumask is a top-notch system: completely digital and decentralized, allowing a broad range of adjustments, both in volume and in frequency. This is one of the strengths of our product because it allows it to adapt to different activities and architectural conditions, which are unique to each working space. Having the possibility of managing a speaker network with such a precise adjustment level allows a highly uniform sound distribution, assuring consistency and privacy throughout the whole work space.

The application of this acoustic treatment should be done in any space where there is a need of providing more privacy to conversations, more concentration and a uniform ambient sound. In practice, Accumask has been installed in all types of spaces, such as open and closed work spaces, government building, financial institutions, hospitals, banks, call centers, etc.

Every master unit is adjusted through a remote control, achieving a high level of precision and consistency in the process of final calibration of the system. A controller can also be included to allow to manage different areas and assign working schedules.

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