High Street Hotel, Edinburgh

Hotel in Edinburgh

Applications Used

Lighting

Heating, Ventilation & Air conditioning (HVAC)

Security and Safety

Operation and Visualisation

Energy Management/Smart Metering

Other

Automation and Remote Access

Blind and Shutter Control

Project Details

Category	Value
Project Category	Hotel
Project Type	Commercial
Year of Completion	2021
Project Size	1.001 – 5.000
Number of KNX Devices Used	301 – 500
KNX Transmission Media	Twisted pair
Man Hours	101 – 250
Man Power	1 – 5

Featured in this project

Detailed Description

Energy Efficiency

The usage of automated functions already save energy in every installation. Especially the usage of KNX has a lot of potential for further energy savings, which can contribute to a better environmental footprint. Be extending KNX to more functions and applications, energy savings of up to 60% can be realised. Thanks to the flexibility of KNX, these functions can easily be implemented in this installation

Innovation

Smart homes and buildings are always an upgrade in comparison to a conventional installation. Not only automated functions and a higher level of comfort contribute to a higher living standard, but also the possibility to be ready for coming innovations. Thanks to the usage of KNX, the door has been opened to integrate new innovative solutions, using the worldwide STANDARD for home and building control.

Applications Used

Lighting - Switching, Dimming, Light Scenes, Timed Control
Heating, Ventilation & Air conditioning (HVAC) - Central & Automatic Control, Timed Operation Modes
Security and Safety
Operation and Visualisation - Switches / Push Buttons, PC Visualisation, Tablets and smart phones
Energy Management/Smart Metering - Visualisation
Other
Automation and Remote Access - Timed Functions, Logical Functions, System Supervision, Messaging (e.g. SMS)
Blind and Shutter Control

Customers Description

KNX was used to control lighting and heating in the hotel bedrooms and lighting/scene setting in the Front of house and restaurant. Utilising a Schneider spacelynk server, we provided a user interface for both staff and maintenance. In the bedrooms the main features were, when a guest enters the room a pre-determined scene is triggered creating a 'welcoming' atmosphere on arrival. On leaving the room 'all lights' and heating were turned off providing energy saving ie not having lights on in a unoccupied room etc. Front of house 'scene' setting provided staff with easy control of light levels. Via the user interface we provided multiple alarms such as water leak detection in bedrooms, in event of 'leak detection' an alarm indicated on the user platform at reception and maintenance staff as well as sending e mail providing alarm message and also room number. The interface is also linked to BMS system to monitor alarms via bacnet. This provides a highly automated control method.