BUFFALO, N.Y.—The Mayton Inn, a new construction 45-room boutique hotel in Cary, N.C., is the first hotel to use the power of BACnet integration to combine the InnPoint system from Zeno Controls LLC with Mitsubishi’s City Multi Central Network (CMCN). The technology enables property owners Colin and Deanna Crossman to use Zeno’s InnPoint solution to monitor and manage HVAC, lighting and environmental conditions in guestrooms and share the data on the Mitsubishi CMCN. Installation of the BACnet-compatible InnPoint front end solution will begin after the hotel breaks ground in September. The Mayton Inn is scheduled to open its doors in September 2014.
“As both the property owner and contractor of this new construction boutique project, we are striving for sustainable lodging,” said Deanna Crossman. “We have won several environmental awards for our 17-room King’s Daughters Inn property in Durham, and now, with opening a much larger facility, we wanted to incorporate the most current technologies available. Our commitment to environmentally responsible building and living is always top of mind, and we feel obligated to give our guests sustainable lodging without sacrificing the warmth and charm of a historic inn or the conveniences of a modern luxury hotel. We believe the InnPoint front end solution from Zeno and its ability to interface to our property-management system, is ideal in helping us to achieve these goals.”
Zeno provides wireless gateways and integrated solutions for small-to-medium size buildings that require control of lighting and HVAC. Zeno recently acquired Verve Living Systems to expand on its energy-efficiency control products offering. Based on wireless and energy harvesting technologies, Verve sensors are wireless and battery-less, making them cost effective and eco-friendly.
10-Channel Controller in Each Room
The management tools being installed by the Mitsubishi Electric HVAC Advanced Products Division are well suited for this hotel and staff, and the InnPoint front-end is complementary as an interface. InnPoint embraces an open architecture, allowing high level integration with existing or proposed building systems on a local or remote basis. Zeno will provide a Verve 10-Channel Controller in each room at the Mayton Inn allowing all lights to be controlled by wireless switches and a Zeno Gateway acting as the master switch. The Verve motion sensor will be linked directly to the 10-Channel Controller as a local control.
Using touchscreen monitors and smartphones/tablets, InnPoint will become a valuable management tool for the Mayton Inn. InnPoint can interface with the hotel property-management system to automatically update room status for housekeeping data and/or transmit temperature/environmental data to other building systems. The InnPoint SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is built on a Window’s 7 platform and is a combination hardware/software solution that can reside on the hotel network. The wireless devices in the room can be either ZigBee and/or EnOcean technology because ZENO uses a “Dual Technology” Gateway that supports both end-devices standards, as well as using the industry standard ZigBee Mesh Network to provide wireless communication between the Gateways.
“We are thrilled to be working with the owners on this new construction project,” said Joshua Alper, Zeno Controls general manager. “Mitsubishi will be providing the actual room thermostats, and Zeno will use Verve motion sensors and door switches to report room conditions and equipment status to the CMCN at the BACnet level, all while controlling the HVAC unit in the room.
“Together with Mitsubishi, we will deliver an energy saving system and interface that is simple for Mayton Inn staff to use for remotely controlling functions of the guestroom sensors and equipment,” he added. “Based on occupancy, the hotel can limit energy waste by turning on or off room lighting and HVAC when guests are not in their rooms. This not only reduces energy costs, but it is respectful of the guest experience. In addition, because these controls can be managed in the cloud, it is possible to monitor the system online from anywhere in the world.”
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