B&B automation: smart hospitality that improves stays and management

For small hospitality structures, home automation can simplify the management of rooms and bring added value to the experience on offer to the customer. Intuitive and complete solutions on your smartphone, like temporary access to room functions for a secure and modern experience.

With the advances in progress of home automation, there are always more options to make your guests’ experience more comfortable, immediate and personalised based on their preferences.

Turn lights on and off, and adjust their brightness, control roller blinds, run scenarios, set the air conditioning, manage remote controlled plugs: these and many other functions guarantee a premium and curated experience even in the smallest hospitality structures.

A benefit for the end user as well as for the hospitality managers. In addition to improving the stay, the B&B management apps can be configured for time-controlled access, to monitor consumption and to provide vocal interaction that simplifies the check-in and check-out procedure.

For management, one of the most important features is, without doubt, the timed access to the app, in other words, to permit only temporary access to the bed and breakfast’s smart function management app, making the mobile phone a real, live home automation controller.

This resolves many of the issues linked to cyber security and the guest can enjoy the smart features without worrying about logins, credentials and the return of remote controls, carrying out everything through their own smartphone. The management can automatically configure the time after which the guest no longer has access to the functions, transferring it seamlessly to the following user.

The apps available on the market, often associated with smart function management modules for home installation, are integrated with the Zigbee protocol, a shared communication standard that avoids annoying incompatibilities between IoT devices and management software.

Completing the options for interaction and configuration, the bed and breakfast automation systems can communicate with the mainstream voice assistants, for an even more familiar and homely feeling for guests, who can control the functions – as they do at home – by interacting with a voice they know.

Home automation systems are not only intended for private use. Nor are they the exclusive preserve of large hotels, with complex management and monitoring systems. 

The flexibility of the technologies and continual integration of software and hardware has allowed for configuration in contexts similar to that of the home, such as B&Bs, while maintaining the monitoring and safety features typical of facilities open to the public. 

A complete next-gen smart systems offer, ideally suited to respond to the requirements and atmosphere of more domestic and private settings.