Technology has rapidly increased its capacity to provide new
opportunities for hotels to reach their guest and streamline their operations
from back of the house to the front desk. Even more importantly, with the
rising awareness of environmental changes and the ever-growing eco tourism
market segment becoming a steadfast proclivity in consumer decision-making, the
demand for hotel technology to approach a new direction in energy savings is
becoming even more necessary and seen as an integral part of project
development.
In 2001, hotels worldwide have used a total of 97.5 TWh of
energy within the scope of all facilities in their properties. The average use
of energy ranges from 305-330 kW/m2/yr. The bulk of energy used goes towards
heating and cooling of rooms, lighting for the entire property and in the guest
rooms, hot water usage and other guest related energy consumption in the rooms,
food preparation in the hotel kitchens and other facilities such as the pool
and the gym. In general the largest single end-user of energy in hotels is
space-conditioning, heating-ventilation-air conditioning (HVAC) in a hotel.
Beyond the guest room resources, during the guest stay,
hotel teams can know when the guest is in the room or not. Typically travellers
like to keep their air conditioners at comfortable levels even when they are
not in the rooms. It is a nice feeling to walk into a cool room after walking
around the hot city for several hours’ sight seeing. Unfortunately it is quite
a waste of energy from an environmental point of view and has a negative impact
on the hotel energy bill. With Micromaster technology, your guest can still have a nice cool room whille optimizing temprature controls centrally.
Nigel Robson, Group Chief Executive of The Royal Yacht,
Jersey stated that, “One of the things we particularly liked about Micromaster is that it is very easy to use. Everything is centrally managed via one computer and our front-of-house staff have had no problems operating it thanks to the simple touch-screen function. But we also really liked the VDA team. Not only did they offer us great design flexibility but they gave us confidence that they could deliver what they were promising. Since deploying Micromaster we have seen a huge reduction in our energy use and therefore in savings on our energy bills.”
With Micromaster, hotels will be able to cap the maximum and
minimum amount of temperature in the guest room. When the guest is not in the
guest rooms, the hotel team can set the temperature at a more economical
setting which can be a few degrees above or below the guest setting to shave
energy waste in the guest room. When the guest returns to the hotel room, front
desk staffs can remote into the conditioning settings to return it to the guest
preference.
With VDA Micromaster technology and integration with VITRUM
lighting switches and controllers, hotels will have direct management and
control of the energy being used in their properties. For more information of
VDA Energy Management solutions and how this cutting edge technology can save
hotels cost, please visit the following website: http://vdagroup.com/
If you would like to speak to a VDA representative, feel
free to email: info@ap.vdagroup.com
