Stay Cal Hospitality offers personalized service and proven expertise helping hotel owners and management companies successfully rebrand or develop new properties. Many of the properties owned by Stay Cal are in the heart of Silicon Valley where guests are technically savvy and have high expectations from the properties where they stay.
Stay Cal is currently expanding and elevating its signature brand of lifestyle hotels. The hospitality company also partners with brands such as Marriott and IHG to develop select service properties that are known for their service, style, comfort and value.
The Silicon Valley location of The Row means that staff is expensive, hard to find and difficult to retain. Industry changes have resulted in wages for staff doubling in the most recent 3 year period.
High attrition means that any technology must be secure and the scarcity of labor requires that technology help them be more productive.
Guests have high expectations that the technologies they use at home need to be present in hotels and must work seamlessly to provide a friction free experience.
devicethread® SmartCloud provides a hospitality focused platform enabling smart IoT devices to be incorporated into business processes.
devicethread® SmartAccess eliminates the need for physical key cards and support a wide variety of smart locks from pinpad to BLE. The property is much more secure since there is no lost card. Codes for employees who have left are instantly deactivated.
Operations for battery replacement can be planned due to real time and nightly reports from devicethread®.
Eliminating key cards saves $0.25 per card.
Ensuring that key codes are guaranteed to be present in each lock means ensuring a smooth guest experience.
Battery level reports means the ability to plan operations and only perform work where necessary.
This automation eliminates at least 1 FTE from the front desk and enables the staff to be more guest focused.