Type
: IoT-enabled Smart Room Control System
Objective
It was a leading hotel management company based out of the Israel that wanted to automate the guest experience through a Smart Room Control System for optimizing it.
It was basically to provide in-room amenities in an integrated, effortless, and efficient manner to facilitate comfort and convenience for guests.
Technologies
Java, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Docker, AWS, IoT
Country
Belgium
Project Attributes
Engagement Model
Dedicated Team Engagement
Duration
18 months
App Users
Hotel guests, facility managers, and maintenance teams
Challenges
- Minimum Automation and Control: The client didn’t have any in-room control
system that had automation in place, and thereby guest satisfaction was
seriously impaired since they needed to control the temperature, lighting, etc.
individually. - Energy Wastage: Rooms not in use had to be perpetually on high energy
consumption – and hence tacked heavily onto the operational costs, as well as
detracting from the sustainability goals. - Undue Complexities in Maintenance: It was very complex to monitor and
manage individual room systems, causing delayed maintenance, which reflected
in the guest experience. - Integration Challenges: With different in-room devices spanning across various
brands and hardware with previous infrastructure, great technical expertise was
required for an integrated platform.
Solutions
- Centralized Control System Development: Adorebits’s system would be
developed into a smart room control system with management through Java and
Ruby on Rails, which would enable room lighting, climate, and entertainment
systems to be centrally controlled. The guest could use an application on the
phone to easily control room settings that added more convenience and even
enhanced engagement. - IoT Integration for Energy Efficiency: Adorebits combined sensors and smart
devices into its system to track room occupancy with the support of IoT. It
controls the necessary energy by maintaining control of occupancy in its rooms,
where such automated adjustment brought a significant reduction in the
consumption of energy in rooms that were unoccupied. - AWS: The whole system had been hosted on AWS, this thus meant scalability,
high security, and the ability to have direct access to data in real time. This
enabled the client to remotely monitor and manage room conditions, optimize
usage resources, and minimize operational downtime. - Automatic alerts due to maintenance logs: Adorebits linked the system to
maintenance logs to automatically notify the maintenance team in case of a
system malfunction. - Dockerized deployment: This has made the development and testing easy with
straightforward integration across different environments. It has helped update
and improve the process fast with minimal impact on services.
Results:
- Guest Convenience: Convenience improved by 30% Guests could now easily control room settings using their mobile devices.
- Energy Savings: Through automated energy management, the client was able to reduce their energy costs by 25% with sustainability goals.
- Operational Efficiency: The centralized system reduced the client’s response time to the maintenance calls by 40%.
- Optimization of Resource Utilization: Reduced manual workload allowed the facility management team to concentrate on strategic jobs.
Conclusion:
Adorebits redesigned the client’s room control system by making their hospitality services more guest-centric, energy-efficient, and technically advanced. The Smart Room Control System achieved the objectives of the client and also placed them at a leadership position in the smart hospitality market.