CASE STUDY

Hotel Flint

Hotel FlintHotel Flint

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

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.

Key criteria

  • 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 TESA Hotel wireless mortise locks to secure guest rooms, the spa and other interior doors. These robust, battery-powered electromechanical door locks work almost completely out of sight. 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. 

TESA Hotel electronic locks also help 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 the electronic locks for guests rooms, TESA supplied wall readers for the entrance and panic doors and the i-max electronic locks for fire-certified doors — a complete solution.

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