Jakarta Praise Community Church
Audio Visual Systems
Ideal Systems Indonesia designed and integrated a new cutting edge digital intercom system from for JPCC in Jakarta. JPCC Kota Kasablanka now stages services for up to 2,000 congregants. Critical communications during the worship productions provoked JPCC to commission Ideal Systems Indonesia to integrate a digital intercom system for its growing requirements.
The main hall of JPCC welcomes 2,000 congregants to each service
The proposed design is based upon the Riedel Bolero wireless system, which incorporates an advanced DECT receiver with multi-diversity and anti-reflection technology. The combination of three intelligent antennas and 26 Bolero beltpacks with two Network Stream Adapter (NSA) interfaces manage bi-directional signal conversion between analogue audio signals and AES67 digital audio over IP. Comprising of a main hall and a youth hall, the Bolero system at Kota Kasablanka can be applied separately or combined.
JPCC was able to utilise the new solution to achieve a seamless workflow between the CCU's and all Audio Mixers using Riedel’s NSA interfaces to achieve integration with the Bolero System this allowed all the cameramen and the audio team to communicate with everyone on the system without any problems and was a major improvement over their legacy analog system. JPCC's requirements are being fulfilled by Bolero’s high-clarity voice codec providing both higher speech intelligibility and more efficient use of RF spectrum supporting twice the number of belt packs per antenna for the same radio bandwidth as other DECT-based systems.
In each service at the church, the Bolero Beltpacks are being used by four cameramen, two lighting operators, four sound engineers, one CCU operator and one CG operator and the service operator directed by two service directors and one visual producer. The Bolero System dramatically improves the communications between all the members of the live production team making their operations easier and more efficient with six channels in one beltpack allowing for seamless communication between sub-groups and the whole team. All the channels and partylines can be defined by priority, this feature is incredibly useful when someone with high priority role wants to talk to certain people or in group without any interference voice from others. The Bolero beltpack also features a separate "Reply" button for a quick reply to the last caller which means the operator has more options and flexibility over who to talk to. The Antenna’s are intelligent and manage the available bandwidth with the beltpacks, allowing a density of ten beltpacks per antenna and JPCC therefore needs only three antennas to for all twentysix Bolero beltpacks.
With simplified coordination of the weekly live productions, the new Bolero system provides major benefits for the JPCC production team to better serve their congregations of over two thousand per service. JPCC has two halls comprising of a main hall and a youth hall, the Riedel solution can be applied as one system for both or as a separate system in terms of the wireless communication for their operators.