{"id":17128,"date":"2022-05-30T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigniti.com\/blog\/?p=17128"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:40:18","slug":"iot-hotel-tech-smart-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/iot-hotel-tech-smart-room\/","title":{"rendered":"IoT in Hotel Tech-The Smart Room Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have just arrived at your favorite holiday destination and reached the hotel reception on a busy morning. It shouldn’t matter to you today if the hotel reception is crowded or there is no one available to help you with check-in. You will directly walk over to the self-service kiosk, enter your booking details, and scan your passport. The check-in process is completed in no time and you are provided with your room details. The kiosk even vends out your swipe card! I am sure you will be quite happy about how smoothly the check-in went, but the best is yet to come. The kiosk displays a QR code during the process, which you scan using your smartphone. Instantly, the smartphone connects to the hotel Wi-Fi, downloads an app, and opens it. As you browse through the new app “My Smart Room”, you will be amazed to see the many facilities that you have at your fingertips. Welcome to the next level of the best hotel guest experience!!<\/em><\/p>\n

If at least some of you are wondering if this can happen in real life, please be aware that this is already happening thanks to the NewGen computing, communication, and information technologies such as cloud, big data, AI\/ML, and IoT that make the guest\u2019s smartphone a remote control of almost all that is needed in order to have a memorable stay.<\/p>\n

The Smart Room Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

The simplest way to define a smart room is as a “connected room” that can be controlled by the guest according to his\/her preferences during the stay. Smart Room tech is part of the smart hotel ecosystem where the guest can stay on top of what is needed, and when needed, by being connected to the hotel staff, its information systems, and other services all the time using smart gadgets. These gadgets could be tablets carried by the staff or fitted in the room, but the most advanced “Smart Room” puts the guest’s smartphone at the center of all these controls and personalization. This, in turn, helps create a highly personalized customer experience throughout the stay. This means, using your smartphone, you can<\/p>\n