System Description

TD 93025US
9 May 2019 / Ver. I 34
System Description
teleCARE IP
6.14 Acoustic Monitoring
Acoustic monitoring is the automatic activation of a call (Acoustic Call) by the detection of sound.
Acoustic monitoring is a functionality of the teleCARE IP Room Controller (NIRC3-WMN) with the
Voice Piggyback Module (NIVP-AAA) and the Speech Module (NISP-WSA). Refer to chapter
6.13“Speech Module (NISP)” on page 33 for details of the teleCARE IP Speech Module.
Acoustic monitoring can be included in teleCARE IP systems with speech and without speech, but in
both cases the room controller with voice piggyback module and the speech module are required.
The functionality is enabled in the system setup. Each room bus can support one speech module with
acoustic monitoring. In speech systems numerous speech modules can be on the same room bus as
the acoustic monitoring speech module.
Speech functionality is not affected by acoustic monitoring. The acoustic monitoring is interrupted
during speech and announcements to speech modules which are on the same room bus as a speech
module with acoustic monitoring.
The acoustic monitoring capability of each enabled speech module is turned on or off in the Staff GUI.
The sound level and sound duration values needed to trigger the acoustic call can be adjusted to suit
the requirement and environmental conditions. These sensitivity settings are adjusted in the Staff GUI.
The acoustic call has a template in the teleCARE IP System Manager (NISM). The template is
configured in the same way as other calls (see teleCARE IP Configuration Manual TD93019US for
details of setting up call categories and call type templates).
Figure 29. Example of a room with speech and acoustic monitoring