Smart-home Technology Makes Smart-hospitality Business for Miami's Marlin Hotel

Savant Systems creates Apple-based interactive control system to enhance the hotel's luxurious guest experience.

Source: Digital Signage Connection

A hotel built in 1939 doesn't necessarily conjure up the term "technological wonderland" — unless you're referring to The Marlin Hotel in Miami, Fla.

A recent renovation brought the Art Deco landmark into the 21st century and included a "luxury smart-home experience" developed by Hyannis, Mass.-based Savant Systems, which created the first complete Apple-based home automation and commercial control system on the market.

Guests at The Marlin receive an iPad at check-in, so that they can control the lighting, climate, shades/drapes and audio/video in their suite. Through the iPad, all audio and video content can be displayed on a 60" flat-screen TV, or heard through speakers in both the bedroom and bathroom. Then, before going to sleep, guests can use a one-touch, "All Off" button to quiet the speakers, shut down all the suite's lights and automatically turn off the TV.

"The Savant System in The Marlin Hotel makes our guests feel like they are in a truly special place," said Walid Sefir, the hotel's manager. "They gain complete control of their environment — from Apple TV programming to mood lighting and music in each suite."

Using the latest in iPad technology, guests of The Marlin Hotel receive an intuitive interactive experience through Savant’s TrueImage Control App. Touching a photograph of the room’s interior on the iPad screen gives them precision control of the lights, shades and media content.

Requiring only two centrally located and fully redundant Savant Host Controllers and sixteen compact Savant SmartControl systems concealed in each guest suite and in one of the hotel’s bars, the entire control system installation blueprint is small in scale and flexible in scope.

Source: Digital Signage Connection

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