Wireless Sensor Networking for Hotel Guest Room Control

Leading hotels, condominiums, and timeshares are implementing wireless networks to manage numerous aspects of their operations, including guest room control. These applications include wireless doorbells (that can incorporate do-not-disturb features), automated lighting controls, guestroom PDAs, centralized lock controls (including card shutouts), door-ajar detection, minibar-access reporting, smoke-detector monitoring, and more. Wireless sensor networks install easily and non-invasively - without expensive wire-pulling that can disrupt revenues.

Benefits to Hotel Guest Room Control OEMs

For OEMs and developers of hotel guest room control systems, wireless sensor networking delivers:

• New hotel system revenue opportunities – The significant reduction in installed costs opens up new marketing opportunities for guest room control systems including budget hotels or older, historical buildings.
• Increased hotel guest room system flexibility – With the elimination of wires, sensing and monitoring points are quickly and easily installed in existing environments.
• More guest room data for better control – Ease and lower cost of installation means that more sensing and monitoring points can be networked, providing more opportunities to improve energy efficiency, security, and comfort.

Solutions for Hotel Guest Room Control

Millennial Net’s MeshScape system is well-suited for hotel guest room control applications. The hardware modules are easily integrated with sensor, actuator, and control devices and can be installed quickly and easily. The robust networking protocol provides a redundant and scalable wireless mesh network out of the box. MeshScape delivers:

• Reliable guest room connectivity – MeshScape networks are the most robust wireless sensor networks offering the highest reliability of data delivery from sensor to host application in the industry.
• Scalability to support any size hotel – The MeshScape system’s ability to scale along a variety of dimensions – including range, interference, and mobility – enable deployment in hotels and facilities of any size.
• Lower installation costs – Applications using MeshScape networking are installed easily and inexpensively without any re-wiring work required.

Hotel Guest Room Control Applications

Be Our Guest: Wireless Sensor Networking for Hotel Monitoring and Control

Customer:	INNCOM is the global leader in integrated guestroom control systems pioneered wireless infrared control technology for hotels, as well as the integration of multiple functions – including climate control, door lock control, mini-bar reporting, lighting control, and occupancy monitoring among others – on a single, centrally monitored and controlled system.
Goal:	The wireless infrared network works very well locally (in-room). Transmitting data to a central control station, however, required wiring which is expensive. The infrared technology which works well within the guest rooms could not be extended as the signals cannot penetrate walls or other line-of-sight obstacles.
Solution:	The MeshScape system enables the company to transmit the data from the rooms to the central control station without wires and without having any impact on the in-room infrared networks.
Benefits:	Hotels can be retrofitted without expensive wiring enabling improved service though aggregation of data at the central control station.
Case study:	Read the INNCOM case study