CUSTOMER CASEHotel Flint

A 21st-century experience for Austrian hotel's guests

Challenge

Hotel Flint in Dornbirn, Austria, is a new hotel which incorporates the city’s historic Villa Weiss. In renovating the building and extending it with a 21st-century structure, developers sought an intelligent locking solution which would both look good and help hotel staff to manage the site and provide guest services more effectively.

They needed a flexible solution to keep them in control — even remotely — and which could future-proof door security and services at the hotel.

Requirements

  • Modern locking to offer an up-to-date hotel experience, including unlocking rooms by smartphone
  • A complete, future-proof technology solution equally suited to a historic building as to a contemporary structure
  • Intelligent devices which automatically notify hotel staff with lock status, battery alerts and more
  • Door devices with a minimalist aesthetic footprint which work within traditional and modern interior

Solution

The Flint chose i-minimal wireless mortise locks to secure guest rooms, the spa and other interior doors. The i-minimal is a robust, battery-powered electromechanical door lock which works almost completely out of sight. An i-minimal’s electronics and mechanical components are embedded within the door leaf, so only the reader module on one side, and a privacy button on the other, are visible. It accommodates multiple DIN handle designs to blend with every interior.

The i-minimal also helps streamline hotel management: lock sensors alert staff if a door is left open, for example. From the TESA Wireless Online interface, they can remotely unlock a room. “Reception can directly communicate with the door, receiving feedback such as whether the guest is in their room or prefers not to be disturbed,” explains Ing. Koch Wolfgang – Schlüssel Koch Managing Director. “Battery status notifications are transmitted directly to the technical team, so we can be proactive.”

TESA software integrates with the hotel’s self-service check-in kiosks: guests will register from home, enter the hotel with a PIN and receive their key-card

at the kiosk.

Alongside i-minimal, TESA supplied; wall readers for the entrance and panic doors; and the i-max lock for fire-certified doors — a complete solution.

Project: Hotel Flint (dasflint.at)

Segment: Hospitality

Location: Dornbirn, Austria

Devices installed: Wireless Online system with 80 i-minimal electromechanical door locks, wall readers and fire-certified i-max locks.