Baldwin Boxall – Omnicare EVC Cabling & Networking

The Omnicare EVC system is loop wired – with any combination of outstations on a single loop. Omnicare has full networking capability.

Omnicare is an addressable emergency voice communication system that allows disabled refuge, fire telephones, emergency/steward telephones and disabled toilet alarms to be connected to one master control panel. (You may like to know that we have BIM drawings for the Omnicare system. If you would like copies of these please click on the link at the bottom of this page.)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

There are two main components – the master control panel(s) and the remote units (disabled refuge, fire telephone, steward telephone, combined outstation and disabled toilet alarm)
Remote units are wired in a ring circuit configuration and are ‘self-learning’, with an auto-commissioning feature
Fire rated enhanced four core cable with a screen must be used for loops in a system used for fire fighting. Standard fire resisting cables could be considered suitable for some EVC systems (please refer to leaflet or BS5839-9 for more details).
Optional touch screen control is available for Omnicare.

Any combination of remote units can be linked to the control panel on a single wiring loop
Up to 200m cable run between remote units and master control panel as standard. A repeater unit (BVOCRIF) must be used if distance between remotes exceeds 200m
Typically 20-30 remotes per loop
Repeater units (BVOCRIF) are used to connect the DTAKIT 3-part toilet alarm to the system