The Brockville Courthouse is a landmark structure prominently located at the top of the historic town square in Brockville, Ontario. Perched on a hill, the square is bordered by churches and stately civic buildings.
The Courthouse required a comprehensive upgrade to the building-wide paging system, seeking an upgrade capable of delivering enhanced clarity, control, and reliability throughout the facility. This project would involve modernizing outdated components and implementing a fully integrated audio solution tailored to the operational needs of this heritage location.
A prominent challenge of this project was that the building’s age introduced several technical and logistical challenges. Constructed over a century ago with materials not designed to accommodate modern cabling and networking, retrofitting new equipment required creative routing solutions and specialized installation methods to maintain the building's structural integrity and aesthetic character.
At the heart of the new system is the M-9000M2 Digital Matrix Mixer. Its flexible configuration supports multiple inputs and outputs, making it ideal for the complex analog and IP paging environments required. To ensure powerful and consistent amplification, the system incorporates the DA-150EH, a high-efficiency Class D multichannel power amplifier. This unit drives the audio to the speakers placed throughout the property. For the speaker applications themselves, a combination of PC-580S and PC-1860 ceiling speakers was utilized. These speakers were selected for their discreet appearance, high intelligibility, and even sound dispersion—perfect for environments such as hallways, offices, and public areas where clear paging is essential.
To extend the system’s functionality over an IP network, our IP-A1 series was integrated (specifically IP-A1PG IP Paging Gateways and IP-A1AF IP Audio Interfaces). These components allow seamless distribution of paging and audio announcements across the building via the existing network infrastructure. Not only simplifying installation, but also enabling future scalability and integration with VoIP and other networked systems.
The result was a flexible, modern paging solution that ensures reliable communication across the entire facility, this system’s been able to fulfill all the courthouse’s needs—and is scalable for the years to come.
TOA Corporation was founded in Kobe, Japan over 90 years ago. TOA operates in over 100 countries worldwide, with manufacturing facilities found in nearly every major market area. These facilities have a reputation for precision design and fabrication, resulting in a proven track record of TOA product reliability.
TOA Canada Corporation was formed in 1990 as a complete sound solutions provider, specializing in commercial audio, including, public address, voice communications, voice evacuation, and emergency paging requirements. TOA Canada offers complete solutions for all corporate and commercial audio communications and intercom security requirements.
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