Transforming the Hotel industry with IoT efficiency

Enconyx
4 min readJul 26, 2022

As technology continues to disrupt, many technologies, particularly energy-management systems, deliver efficiencies and cost savings to the hospitality industry. According to data, the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system alone accounts for 50% of hotel energy use.

Incompetent management of the HVAC system can lead to excessive energy consumption and high bills

IoT To The Rescue

Aside from several advantages for the electric power supply chain, IoT energy management solutions can pave the path for an energy-efficient hospitality future. With the incorporation of smart grid systems and solutions promoting effective energy management, IoT promises remarkable savings, higher security, and increased efficiency. Facility managers who use smart energy management solutions can integrate intelligent AI/ML-based controls across their asset portfolio and obtain comprehensive visibility into the operations of the building.

Predicting and optimizing Hotel Energy Consumption, and Costs through IoT

Deploying IoT-based smart solutions within Hotels can help the facilities manage their energy like never before. Using IoT data and machine learning techniques to forecast future energy usage enables them to develop a data-driven energy production and consumption strategy and assist utilities in improving their demand-based pricing models. As a result, important supply chain players can benefit greatly from IoT data and machine intelligence to devise an effective energy-saving strategy.

Apart from energy management, the advent of smart tech into the hospitality industry can also assist in developing a robust facility management solution to overcome common issues like,

  • Unwarranted breakdowns and shorter asset life due to a lack of visibility into asset health and predictive maintenance.
  • Insufficient insight into comfort compliances such as temperature, humidity, and indoor air quality, to name a few.
  • High bills due to low power factors and current imbalances

Sustainable Hotel Buildings Fueled By IoT

An important part of global tourism is the hospitality sector. To ensure sustainability and the preservation of natural resources, hoteliers all over the world are investing to upgrade their infrastructure. We at Enconyx offer a wide variety of cutting-edge technological solutions to enhance energy conservation and promote sustainability. Our smart energy management solution ensures high efficiencies, reduced wastage, and effortless monitoring and control of the entire facility’s energy scenario.

Implementing IoT technology in the hotel premises can result in the following:

  1. Enhanced HVAC and comfort management

Indoor environment conditions set the tone for correct tone for any hotel IoT-enabled smart HVAC and comfort management solutions to ensure optimum indoor temperatures while reducing energy consumption and costs. Coupled with smart lighting, learning thermostats, and a new generation of sensor-based systems, the solution has the potential to create the perfect ambiance for maximized comfort.

2. Reducing Food wastage with temperature control

Restaurant and hotel owners are growing more worried about the amount of food that is lost each year, making food wastage a relevant issue in the hospitality industry. The advent of smart-tech in the sector has the potential to are lowering waste and help fight this problem. . IoT-enabled food temperature sensing mechanisms enable constant monitoring to ensure ideal storage temperatures. Additionally, it would estimate the amount of electricity required to run the storage rooms based on current patterns and keep consumption constant.

3. Water Management with smart metering solutions

Water is a necessity for life, and every hotel depends on it to operate. A high level of consumption entails a high amount of responsibility for conservation. Practically every section of a hotel requires water, including the bathrooms and lobby areas, swimming pools, kitchens as well as the cleaning and laundry facilities. By monitoring water lines and maintaining ideal flow rates with smart, affordable water meters, hotels can see their water consumption in less than five years. The supply can also be managed remotely to meet the actual demand. An IoT-enabled water metering solution can help the hotel managers cope with any maintenance requirements at the right time, detect leakages and predict faults before time to take immediate action and save on operational and maintenance costs.

4. Predictive maintenance

A hotel’s infrastructure and systems, including the air conditioning, plumbing, heating, and lighting, should be regularly inspected to avoid unforeseen events. It enables hotels to use sensor data to spot wasteful or hazardous tendencies and alert maintenance staff before the problem worsens and becomes much more expensive. Instead of waiting for a component to fail before fixing or replacing it, predictive maintenance enables engineering staff to forecast maintenance needs based on system usage, averting system breakdowns and reducing the costs of maintaining a damaged system. An efficient preventive maintenance program considers every aspect of your hotel’s infrastructure and designs the annual maintenance schedule so that it doesn’t disrupt the experience for the visitors.

What’s Next?

The hotel business is adjusting to the new requirements in response to the recent outbreak to secure the safety of its future customers. Digital and “contactless” services are taking precedence over face-to-face services as hoteliers strive to address the present health crisis. Therefore Hotels that adopt IoT may increase customer engagement and brand loyalty, run more efficiently, increase employee productivity and security, and promote corporate growth. IoT will ultimately enable the hotel sector to accomplish its goal of providing visitors with a setting that truly feels like home. For millennial and next-generation clients who prefer to have all the information and convenience at their fingertips, smart technology goes a long way toward creating a lasting and memorable positive experience.

Now that smart technology is available, hotels can achieve their sustainability goals. Visit https://enconyx.com/ to learn more about how Enconyx makes building efficiency a reality.

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