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Room Lighting and Automation Controls Offer Smart Ideas for Motels and Hotel Establishments
1. Because guests usually don't make an effort to conserve
energy when staying in establishments such as inns and
hotels, there is an important opportunity for the
hospitality industry to save on energy and other costs
through room lighting and automation controls. Studies
show that eco-friendly room lighting and automation
products can be easily installed in motels and hotels to
varying degrees to help these establishments save up to
25 to 44 percent on energy costs per room.
2. Hotel automation products offer a wide range of
applications that can be used and combined to suit a
hotel's and its guests' specific needs:
3. Room-based Occupancy Controls: This category offers the
widest selection of choices and applications for room
lighting and automation controls. Both HVAC and lighting
systems can be controlled on a full, per-room basis
because the controls used in most establishments are local
to the hotel suite and are activated when guests use their
keycard to enter the room. They usually do not depend on
the entire building's automation system.
4. For room-control monitoring, the conditions and
operation, as well as the energy usage of each hotel suite
can be viewed and monitored from the front desk or
workstation to keep track of the system's effectiveness.
This can also help determine the guest's preferences and
enable the hotel staff to make any changes or additions to
each hotel room's controls.
5. - Digital Thermostats: These products are different from
other available energy-saving thermostats, as they are
able to switch between occupied or unoccupied modes.
Compared to other products that are unable to sense
indications of room occupancy, these digital thermostats
can be programmed for automatic heating or cooling
changeovers as soon as guests insert their keycards and
enter the room. These can also be easily installed and
programmed to suit the guest's preferences and to achieve
maximum energy savings.
6. - Lighting Controls: Lighting automation controls take
energy efficiency and savings to a new level, as motels and
hotel establishments can easily implement these to enable
guests to control each section of their hotel suite's lighting
levels, on or off status, or mood lighting, and set them to
energy-saving mode.
7. Bathrooms: Because studies show that 75 percent of a
bathroom's lighting and energy costs are consumed when
lights are left on for more than an hour, lighting devices
and sensors can be installed in the hotel suite's electrical
box, where the bathroom's light switch is normally
located. These automation controls can shut down lights
and other devices when guests leave the hotel suite.
