Hotel room automation designed around your property

Hotel room automation is a planned set of room controls, sensors, interfaces, and rules that coordinate functions such as lighting, HVAC, curtains, and room scenes. It is not automatically a complete GRMS, PMS, or BMS platform. The actual scope depends on the selected devices, wiring, gateways, integrations, and the operating requirements agreed for the property.

A retrofit can be assessed room by room, but it starts with a survey of electrical access, neutral wiring, loads, drivers, curtain motors, HVAC equipment, and mounting locations. Existing conditions determine whether relays, dimmers, panels, sensors, DALI, or other controls are appropriate. A representative pilot room is useful for validating the chosen approach before a wider rollout.

Internet behaviour depends on the selected devices and architecture. Convergia is designed for local rule execution, so its configured rules can operate locally, but this does not establish a universal failure mode for every product or integration. The required behaviour for guest controls, gateways, HVAC, and any remote service should be specified and tested during project design and commissioning.

Manual control can be designed through selected wall switches, scene controllers, touch panels, and the underlying electrical arrangement. The available actions depend on the chosen device: a panel is a control interface, while a relay or compatible dimmer handles its intended load type. The room schedule should define which controls guests and staff can use in each operating state.

The Zigbee VRV Gateway is intended to bridge a compatible VRV or VRF outdoor unit to a Zigbee automation system through a wired HVAC connection and Zigbee communication. Compatibility must be confirmed before installation because equipment interfaces and project conditions vary. The gateway is a communication bridge; it does not switch electrical loads or replace the HVAC system controls.

DALI lighting can be included where the property has, or is designing, a compatible DALI bus and drivers. The Zigbee DALI Gateway supports up to 64 DALI nodes and can translate Zigbee commands for switching, dimming, groups, scenes, tunable white, and RGBW functions. It does not power lighting loads directly, so the DALI electrical design remains essential.

Ceiling-mounted and USB Zigbee mmWave sensors can detect motion and fine micro-movements and supply presence data to configured automation rules. A contact sensor can report whether a monitored opening is open or closed. These products are inputs, not load controllers, so placement, coverage, timing, privacy expectations, and the desired rule outcomes should be reviewed for each room type.

A project estimate is based on the room count, room types, selected lighting and load controls, HVAC interface, curtains, panels, sensors, gateways, integration scope, installation conditions, commissioning, and handover. There is no fixed hotel package price because the required wiring, compatible drivers, motor types, and interfaces vary. A room schedule and drawings make a BOQ more reliable.

A pilot room lets the project team verify the selected devices in representative electrical, HVAC, curtain, and guest-use conditions before committing the same approach across the property. It can validate wiring access, sensor placement, scene behaviour, panel layouts, required interfaces, and commissioning steps. The pilot should use agreed acceptance criteria so the rollout scope can be adjusted from observed technical findings.

Useful inputs include room layouts, reflected ceiling plans, electrical single-line diagrams, lighting and driver schedules, DB and load schedules, HVAC schedules and interface details, curtain motor information, network information, and any proposed PMS or BMS interface documents. These drawings allow the team to identify compatibility checks, device locations, wiring needs, room sequences, and the boundaries that need project-specific validation.