Simple, intuitive UI
Capabilities: Consumer-like user interface
Benefits: Easy to use by anyone in the
hotel - management and staff alike
Scalability
Capabilities: Innovative concept of zones
and collections which taken together enable different
groupings of floors, rooms and devices across a property or
campus
Benefits: A simple, elastic solution to
scale properties with no restriction on # devices, property
size, # device types, portfolio
Availability
Capabilities: Platform is so designed to be
highly available
Benefits: Functionality can be seamlessly
upgraded with no impact on the business of the property
Security
Capabilities: Constantly monitors the
infrastructure to ensure all behaviors are secured
Benefits: Critical information like PII is
encrypted - at rest and in motion. Devices are constantly
monitored
Logging
Capabilities: All actions and changes are
logged
Benefits: Automatic record keeping for
business and legal compliance
Device Abstraction
Capabilities: Provides a single definition
for each device type (such as lock, TV, thermostat etc),
based on functional characteristics. Abstracts away the
specific variations within each model and make of device.
Benefits: Allows a portfolio to be managed
easily with no regard to underlying hardware variations
Role based access control
Capabilities: The platform supports a
number of different roles. Different privilege levels can be
associated with each of the roles
Benefits: Depending on the specific role
guests, staff, managers, owners, vendors can all be given
specific permissions allowing them the right access to
perform their functions
Device connectivity
Capabilities: The platform has multiple
means of connecting with device such as MQTT, edge drivers,
on-prem SDK or cloud API service
Benefits: This layered approach simplifies
platform efficiency and ensure consistent interaction with
devices independent of connectivity protocol
Communication
Capabilities: Alerts and notifications are
grouped into the Inbox for resolution. The platform also
supports email and text notification capabilities
Benefits: Business modules can leverage the
email and text notification capabilities as part of standard
communication processes like notifying staff on events or
delivering guest messages
API-First and webhooks
Capabilities: All functionality is
accessible equivalently through programmatic interfaces as
it is through the UI
Benefits: Makes it easy to integrate with
any other applications to seamlessly blend the
infrastructure with existing business processes