Supplier Insight: Tech for your hotel

B&O Play by Bang & Olufsen

Featuring an omni-directional sound feature for a flat speaker, True360 ensures that everyone listening to the portable speaker enjoys equally good sound. BeoPlay A2 is a two-channel speaker — with two channels on each side of the device applying a new Bang & Olufsen solution called ”Power Response Enhancement”. It includes an extra tweeter on the rear side of the main driver that gives an even higher frequency radiation around the edges. Combined with the main speaker drivers’ omni-directional sound dispersion at low frequencies, this results in what the company terms as a ‘True360 sound experience’. Designed by Danish industrial designer Cecilie Manz, BeoPlay A2 has a flat design with two polymer shells and a rock solid aluminium core. The speaker also features Bluetooth technology.

Tel: +45 23681657
Email: bln@bang-olufsen.dk
Website: www.bang-olufsen.com

Chimera Solutions

Chimera Solutions specialises in delivering a wide range of technology driven offers, especially in the restaurant and hospitality segment. Chimera has ties with software providers of PIMS2 ERP financial system, Motorola Solutions, Posiflex — integrated point of sale systems, Touch Dynamic USA, Zebra Technologies, Long Range Systems ­— advanced paging systems, Intercard Inc USA providers of the global leader of Amusement Center Debit card systems and many others. Chimera Solutions’ handheld POS system lets the staff take all the orders from a device as small as a smartphone, using the Apple technology. Chimera has around 80% market share in Qatar because the hotel staff has found this method as efficient. The order is immediately printed in the kitchen, even as the waiter is by the table. The order also appears on the POS simultaneously.

Tel: +974 55862242
Email: info@chimerasol.com
Website: www.chimerasol.com

AEI Communications

The latest innovation from AEI communications is to replace the DECT master phones with the company’s new Gateway model. These phones can monitor and control up to 15 SIP extensions within a room or suite. Although all the phones within the room or suite are connected to the network, only the Gateway master phone communicates directly with the PBX. All other phones within the room communicate via the Gateway master phone so that only one SIP licence is required (single line phones). If the Gateway master phone becomes disconnected or fails, for any reason, one of the other predefined phones will register to the PBX in place of the Gateway phone so that there will always be a working phone in the room or suite. DECT accessory phones are a common sight in hotel rooms for their reduced costs on SIP licences; however, DECT master phones are known to fail and that’s where the Gateway model steps in.

Tel: +44 1753643736
Email: mike.rogers@aeicommunications.com
Website: www.aeicommunications.com

ConnectBsmart

Interel’s ‘connectBsmart’ Internet of Things infrastructure enables brands and hoteliers, when deploying the Interel Guest Room Management Solution, to install and efficiently manage a future-proof Bluetooth beacon infrastructure throughout the property, which provides a turnkey platform for their mobile hospitality service strategies and guest experience services. With sensors for motion, temperature and humidity, as well as wireless communication capability at room level through Interel’s connectBsmart Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, hoteliers can bring a wide range of in-room devices and services online, including the door lock and minibar. ConnectBsmart also allows hotels to leverage their mobile strategy, by future-proofing their properties for indoor micro-locationing services. The award-winning ‘connectBsmart’ framework enables hotels to subtly interact with guests through the hotel’s technology infrastructure, using the guest phone’s Bluetooth signal. In addition, hotels will be able to better manage their energy consumption by adjusting lights and temperature based on the guest’s presence and predicted behavior.

Tel: +971 4 447 9845
Email: info@interelme.com
Website: www.interelme.com

myHotel by Neorcha

Neorcha’s myHotel App enables hotels to maximise customer experience by providing guests with access to a range of services including pre-arrival arrangements, concierge services, destination information and express check-out. The myHotel app’s messaging platform allows simple and easy interaction between hoteliers and guests, whilst its geo-location feature maximises the effectiveness of a hotel’s marketing programme through integration that can dynamically, and in real time, alert guests to events and promotions. The app also offers streamlined access to loyalty schemes and e-vouchers, faster check-in, shorter queues and keyless guestroom access and reduced OTA costs thanks to its in-built direct booking channel.

Neorcha’s mobile solutions seamlessly integrate with hotel CRM, PMS, CRS, and POS systems, and can be fully customised to a hotel’s brand standards.

Tel: +33 651617529
Email: info@neorcha.com
Website:www.neorcha.com

RateGain

RateGain Technologies’ Optima is a real-time competitive pricing intelligence tool which syndicates the hotel software database with smart data analytics. Optima carries out a fine-grained examination of critical statistics, particularly rates and availability, for hotels and travel companies. This analysis eventually delivers deeper insights to the hotel about granular and massive shifts in the marketplace, in order to maintain rate parity across every linked channel. The all new and competitively priced Optima comes with an intuitive user interface that breaks down market rate, OTA ranks, and pricing strategy into logical insights. On the basis of these insights, even a non-technical user can smoothly optimise room rates to maximise the profitability of their brand. That’s why the interface has been deliberately kept unfussy and easy-to-use.

Tel: +91 9560 833220
Email: aditi.bhandari@rategain.com
Website: www.rategain.com

RoomOperations

RoomOperations is a housekeeping application that offers a solution to better manage housekeeping scheduling and task assignments, inventory control, engineering, minibar operations and lost-and-found in one application which is cloud- and mobile-enabled. For starters, hotels using RoomOperations in place tend to enjoy much greater productivity among their employees and various departments. That is because RoomOperations streamlines and automates the scheduling and task processes, handles engineering, minibar and inventory requests all in one platform. It is available in 15 different languages which eliminates communication errors between staff. Another great advantage of RoomOperations is that it saves hotels a lot of money. By using RoomOperations, hotel operations eliminate the usage of paper, does not require any database software or expensive server hardware and eliminates the burden on staff in creating schedules and reports which are done in a few minutes instead of hours.

Tel: +971 44377574
Email: info@roomoperations.com
Website: www.roomoperations.com

Dyson Airblade V

The Dyson Airblade does not feature a conventional digital motor, which tends to be bulky and slow, and can also be inefficient. They also rely on carbon brushes, which wear out over time. The Dyson digital motor V4 is different. It’s both compact and powerful, and instead of carbon brushes, it uses digital pulse technology to spin up to three times faster than a conventional motor. Dyson Airblade hand dryers have HEPA filters installed as standard, which capture 99.9% of particles the size of bacteria from the washroom air. So, hands are dried with cleaner air, not dirty air. Technology in the Dyson Aiblade lets the Dyson digital motor V4 to draw in up to 35 litres of air through a HEPA filter, and forces it through apertures up to 0.8 mm wide. The result is 430mph sheets of filtered air that scrape water from hands, drying them quickly and hygienically.

Tel: +971 4 507 6000
Email: dysonprofessionalmea@dyson.com
Website:www.dyson.ae