Products pass airport test
April 1st 2008

Venta UK's products for directing, managing and corralling passengers during an emergency have been successfully tested at Cardiff International Airport during an emergency exercise.

Forty volunteers evacuated a Boeing 767 and were directed to assembly points via Venta UK's ActivSign II message system and vehiclemounted tannoy.

ActivSign II is a standalone, weatherproof system with onboard memory that allows it to retain up to 80 user-programmed messages up to 112 characters long with eight or 16 characters visual at one time.

At Cardiff, it was used to direct people away from the aircraft to the assembly point, clearing the way for the emergency services.

Other equipment used in the exercise included TriSign, a three-sided reflective assembly point sign that folds and can be deployed in seconds and SpaceSaver Cone, a fold-flat cone that has an LED flashing and steady burn illumination that will run for 300h.

A key component of the Passenger Evacuation Assembly Point) was Venta UK's Reflex Rope, a retroreflective rope that lights up in headlights or torchlight.

It features cone loops, which were combined with the TriSigns to create a passenger corralling area.

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