Paging and displays that carry across the floor.
Warehouses in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx bring high ceilings, concrete block walls, loud equipment and long floors that swallow office speakers. We design and install AV for industrial space: zoned paging and music that can be heard over a forklift, rugged displays at the dock, and a clean finish in the office and break room.
Example layout. Tap settings and speaker counts come from the noise and ceiling heights we measure on the site walk, and the taps on each channel add up to less than that channel can deliver. Paging and music are not a fire alarm or mass notification system.
A warehouse is not an office with a bigger ceiling.
Concrete, steel, forklifts and 30 ft ceilings call for different equipment and different installation methods.
Displays on block and concrete
Dock and floor displays go on concrete block (CMU), concrete or metal stud partitions. We pick the mount and anchor for the actual wall: anchors rated for the load into solid block, grouted cells or concrete, never the mortar joint alone, and blocking in metal studs. Long runs ride in EMT conduit.
Speakers that cut through noise
Forklifts, conveyors and dock traffic keep the background loud all shift, and office ceiling speakers disappear in it. We use horn, pendant or high-output speakers, placed and aimed so a page is heard over the equipment.
Long runs, clean signal
A floor can run 200 ft end to end. Passive HDMI is only reliable for a few meters, so displays far from the source get HDBaseT over one Cat6 (up to 100 m, 328 ft) or fiber beyond that. Audio runs on a 70 V line, which is made for long runs to many speakers.
IP-rated where it is wet or dusty
Near dock doors and in cold or damp rooms, we specify displays, enclosures and speakers with the right IP rating. Commercial hardware built for those conditions outlasts consumer gear that was never meant for them.
Zones, including for tenants
Page one section without the whole building hearing it. In a multi-tenant building, each tenant can have its own zone with its own volume and source, while a building all call can reach every zone.
The office and break room too
Most warehouses have an office, a manager's station or a break room. We handle both sides in one project: rugged AV on the floor and a clean display install in the office, with in-wall power kits and in-wall rated cable.
Quiet office, loud aisle, open dock: three different speakers.
Choose an area to see which speaker covers it, where it hangs, and how many it takes in an example layout.
In an office, the ceiling is low and the room is quiet, so the answer is many small speakers turned down low. Spacing follows the ceiling height and the speaker's rated coverage, so nobody sits between two of them.
Racks full of product stop sound from crossing between aisles, so speakers on the deck between them waste their output. Each aisle gets its own line of pendants, hung above the racking and the reach of the lifts.
A horn puts its sound into a narrow, long throw, so it can be heard over a truck at the door. We aim each one at the doors it serves instead of the whole room, which keeps the page clear and the office side quiet.
Warehouse AV, from dock to break room.
Every system is sized for the square footage, ceiling height and noise of your building, not copied from an office job.
Loading dock and floor displays
Commercial-ratedCommercial displays rated for long daily hours, mounted on block or concrete at the dock, with protective enclosures where forklifts pass and high-brightness models where daylight from open doors washes out a normal screen. Used for schedule boards, safety reminders and dashboards.
Distributed overhead audio
70 V zonesCeiling, pendant or horn speakers zoned across the floor on a 70 V commercial amplifier, each zone on its own channel with its own volume. Music and paging at a level people can hear with the equipment running.
Paging
Zone selectPaging microphone stations and IP paging endpoints on a central controller. A floor manager pages one area, several, or all of them, and the music ducks for the page and comes back after.
Manager and office displays
HDMI · wirelessWall-mounted or ceiling-hung displays in the office and manager's station, with HDMI and wireless presentation inputs, finished cleanly even next to the open warehouse.
Break room TV mounting
Into the structureMounted into whatever the wall is: blocking in metal studs, or anchors into solid block or brick. Cables in the wall with an in-wall power kit, or in surface raceway or conduit where the wall cannot be opened.
Digital signage and operational displays
Media playerNetworked displays with a signage media player for KPI dashboards, shift schedules, safety reminders or tenant directories. Content is scheduled from software, so nobody climbs a ladder to change it.
How a warehouse AV project runs.
Industrial jobs need more engineering up front than a standard commercial install. Here is how we run one.
Site walk and noise check
We walk the floor with your building super or facilities contact and record ceiling heights, wall types, existing conduit, panel locations and background noise. In a multi-tenant building we confirm which spaces are in scope and what the building requires.
Written design
A written design shows speaker placement and taps, amplifier channels, display locations, cable routes and conduit. Equipment is chosen for the environment, IP-rated where needed. You get a written quote before any work begins.
Scheduled installation
We plan around your receiving and shipping. Overhead conduit, dock work and anything noisy can be done off hours, on weekends or between shifts. Our crew runs the cabling, mounts the equipment and commissions the system.
Test, label and hand off
Every zone is tested at full output. We walk your manager or super through the system, label every panel and zone, and leave as-built documentation. If a level needs adjusting after real use, we come back and set it.
Warehouse AV, answered.
Can you run conduit and cable in an active warehouse without shutting down operations?
Yes. Most warehouse AV work is done around live operations. Overhead conduit runs, wall penetrations and anything that needs equipment moved or makes noise can be scheduled off hours, on weekends or between shifts. We map out a phased plan with your facilities team before the job starts, so there are no surprises on the floor.
What kind of speakers actually work in a warehouse with loud equipment running?
Not the drop-ceiling speakers made for offices. Depending on the noise and the ceiling height, we use horn speakers, high-output pendant speakers or column speakers made for loud spaces. We measure the background noise on the site walk and choose the speaker, its tap and the spacing from that.
Do warehouse AV installations need a DOB permit?
It depends on the scope and the building. We check during the site visit and tell you what applies before any work is scheduled. Paging and music are not a fire alarm or mass notification system. If your building has a fire alarm system that needs to connect to the audio, for example to shut off music during an alarm, that connection is coordinated with your fire alarm contractor.
We have a multi-tenant warehouse. Can different tenants have independent AV zones?
Yes. Each tenant can have its own zone with its own volume and source, so day-to-day audio stays separate. A building-wide all call can still reach every zone when the building needs to make an announcement. The system can also be set up so the owner controls the shared equipment and each tenant controls their own zone.
How do you mount displays on concrete block walls in older Brooklyn or Queens warehouses?
Concrete block (CMU) is standard in older industrial buildings in Bushwick, Maspeth, Hunts Point and similar areas. We use masonry anchors rated for the display's weight, set into solid block, grouted cells or concrete and never into the mortar joint alone, with a mount rated above the display's weight. Where coring the wall is not practical, cables run in surface conduit. The result is a clean install that stays on the wall through daily use.
Can you integrate the paging system with our existing phone or intercom system?
In most cases, yes. IP paging can connect to a SIP phone system, so a manager can page one zone or the whole floor from a desk phone or softphone. An older analog phone system can be bridged with the right interface. We look at your phone system on the site walk and confirm it works before we propose equipment.
Audio and video for every kind of business.
Schedule a warehouse site walk.
Tell us the address, the square footage and what you are trying to solve. We come out, walk the space and give you a clear written quote, with no equipment you do not need.