MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Telkonet, Inc., whose complementary business divisions include EcoSmart, a leading energy management technology platform featuring Recovery Time technology, and EthoStream, one of the largest hospitality high-speed Internet access providers, announced that its EcoSmart Solution was selected as the winner of the Holiday Inn Express Stay Smart Business Challenge at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
With nearly 2,300 properties, Holiday Inn Express is one of the fastest growing hotel brands in the world. Looking for an innovative partner to deliver a breakthrough solution to address and ultimately deliver the best night’s sleep for guests staying in any of the Holiday Inn Express brand hotels, the Stay Smart Business Challenge was created.
An extensive competition and selection process took place with six finalists selected from all initial submissions. On January 5, 2015, preceding the CES industry trade show, the finalists competed with “Shark Tank” style presentations in front of a panel of judges from Holiday Inn Express and Mindshare, a global media and marketing services company. Presenting for Telkonet was its CEO, Jason Tienor, who was joined by Matt Koch and Jeff Sobieski, Telkonet’s COO and CTO, respectively, during the Q&A Session following the presentation. The Telkonet team emerged as the winner as they successfully addressed how EcoSmart delivers upon the Challenge’s four key criteria: differentiation, commercial viability, operational viability and alignment with Holiday Inn’s guiding principles.
Focusing on guest comfort, temperature and noise reduction, Telkonet’s EcoSmart entry fully addressed the competition’s key criteria and successfully impressed the judges. Telkonet’s EcoSmart Energy Management system is unique in that it is a complete platform that includes an intuitive interface through the use of Telkonet’s EcoCentral Virtual Engineer, a cloud-based energy management command center. Designed with open standards, EcoSmart’s EcoCentral VE allows for interfacing with other popular property management, building automation and workflow solutions, and is the only energy management technology provider with native mobile user apps for iOS and Android devices.
“We’re extremely pleased to have won the Stay Smart Business Challenge sponsored by Holiday Inn Express and honored to have been invited to compete in such an innovative competition,” Telkonet’s Tienor said. “We applaud Holiday Inn Express for the value it places on its guest comfort and efforts toward revolutionizing how it addresses in-room noise, temperature and guest comfort. This award further demonstrates the value and benefit of EcoSmart’s full automation and energy management platform within the hospitality environment. We look forward to working alongside Holiday Inn Express on its Smart Room of Tomorrow.”
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