Make Your Site More Accessible with a Hearing Loop System

Explore How This Technology Makes Your Patrons Feel Connected

Considered one of the most effective, easy-to-use, and trouble-free assistive listening technologies, hearing loop systems can transform a person’s experience in your business, church, auditorium, or other gathering space. 

If you’ve been looking for a way to make your San Mateo, CA, establishment more welcoming for all of your patrons, you need to consider adding this assistive listening technology. You may be surprised by how easy it is to incorporate when you have a dedicated team by your side, like PCD! Learn more about the topic in our blog below.

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What Is A Hearing Loop System?

A hearing loop, or induction loop, system overcomes the issue many customers have with large groups or noisy spaces. They produce a signal that connects directly to a Telecoil-enabled hearing aid, cochlear implant, or handheld receiver and enables people to hear clear, intelligible sound. 

Unwanted background noise can deter your patrons with hearing aids because the ambient sounds interfere with their understanding. Larger facilities like conference rooms, worship halls, and lecture halls are ideal locations for perimeter hearing loop systems with a larger footprint. The speaker speaks into a microphone, and the audio is picked up by a receiver and then fed into the hearing loop system that outlines the perimeter of the space. The loop creates an alternating magnetic field at audio frequencies that provide an input signal for a listening aid. The listener then hears what was spoken into the microphone with amazing clarity.

You may wonder if you need a hearing loop system if you already have a PA system. Without a loop system, the PA system audio is amplified, but intelligibility is reduced for those with hearing aids. Poor room acoustics can cause sound waves to bounce and reflect off the materials and objects in the room, too. These sound waves, paired with ambient noise, are overwhelming. And if your facility doesn’t use a PA system, then intelligibility is further reduced, leaving people auditorily in the dark, so to speak.

Make Your Establishment More Accessible

Anyone with a compatible hearing aid can benefit from a hearing loop system, and it’s a great way to improve inclusivity without requiring students, guests, or parishioners to self-identify as someone that needs assistance. It’s inconspicuous, and there’s no need to request an additional headset or receiver for use. Adding this assistive technology makes your establishment more welcoming and accessible to the entire community.

PCD Is Your Assistive Technology Partner

Our team will ensure your new hearing loop system meets all international and national performance standards for field strength and consistency throughout the listening area. Some modern buildings have far too much metal that actually absorbs the hearing loop’s magnetic field, so our technicians can use design tools and loop layouts that address this magnetic field degradation or spill into neighboring locations. 

If you’re ready to make your facility more inviting and accessible, it’s time to incorporate assistive listening technology with the help of a dedicated and professional team like PCD. Connect with us here to get started!