Hotels

Smart guest rooms, without the smart-room project.

Lighting, shades, climate and entertainment in every room — on a new build or a floor-by-floor refurbishment, installed by the contractors already on your property.

The opportunity

Guests already expect the room to be smart

Self-service is now the default everywhere else in travel, and the room is the last place it hasn't arrived. Meanwhile a guest room burns energy whether or not anyone is in it.

74%
of guests prefer digital self-service
myCloud Hospitality, 2025
25–35%
energy reduction from room automation
Hotel Tech Insight, 2026
~9%
annual growth in guest-room management
DataIntelo, 2025
The obstacle

The technology was never the hard part

Guest-room automation has existed for years. What has kept it out of most rooms is the cost of the system, the specialists required to install it, and the disruption of putting it in.

01

Priced for luxury properties

Systems from large building-automation vendors carry per-room costs that only a flagship property can justify, which leaves the rest of the portfolio running manually.

02

Proprietary from end to end

Proprietary hardware needs accredited integrators and long projects. You wait on their availability, and only they can touch the system afterwards.

03

Rooms that run empty

Lights and climate run in vacant rooms, and guests have no simple way to ask for service. Both are ordinary operating costs that automation removes.

In the room

One platform for the whole guest room

Every room runs on a Nexus Hub, a local controller that speaks to the devices already specified for the property.

lightbulbLighting
Lighting that responds to occupancy, daylight and time of day — and can still be set to whatever the room needs.
roller_shadesShades
Blackout and privacy shades that move with the light and the hour, so the room darkens without anyone hunting for a second control.
thermostatClimate
Comfortable on arrival, and setback the moment the room is empty.
volume_upAudio
In-room sound a guest can use without instructions.
tvVideo
Streamlined entertainment and casting on the room television.
room_serviceRequests
Service and amenities requested in a single tap, routed to your team.
infoProperty info
Hours, amenities and local guides at the bedside instead of in a binder.
The guest experience

Nobody arrives wanting to learn a system

A guest has been travelling all day. The room's job is to be obvious — the expected thing in the expected place, already set correctly, with nothing to work out first.

01

Aware, not preset

The room reads occupancy, daylight and time of day, and sets lighting, shades and climate accordingly. Nothing is locked to a fixed menu of moods — the behaviour is configured for your property, and a guest who wants something else simply changes it.

02

One place to look

Lighting, shades, climate and entertainment answer to the same control. Nothing is hidden behind a different remote, a wall panel in another corner, or a card in a slot.

03

No instructions in the room

No app to download, nothing to pair, no card to explain at check-in. It behaves the way a guest expects on the first try — which is the only try it gets.

The install

Fitted around an operating property

New build, renovation or a floor at a time on a property that never closes — Nexus goes in the way any other trade package goes in, by the contractors already scheduled. A hotel cannot shut a floor for a technology project, so it doesn't have to.

Lit hotel corridor lined with guest room doors
1

Specified with the scope

We produce the room design, the hardware list and the installation guidelines up front — alongside a new build package, or ahead of a refurbishment cycle so it lands with the rest of the work.

2

Installed by your contractors

Your electrical, low-voltage and general contractors fit it to the guidelines. No accreditation, and no waiting on a specialist to become available.

3

Commissioned room by room

We are on site for the initial hub deployment and remote from then on, so rooms come back into service as they are finished.

The economics

The room earns most when nobody is in it

An empty room still costs money to condition. Occupancy-aware automation is the part of the system that pays, and it runs whether or not the guest ever touches a control.

Setback on exit
Climate falls back and lighting goes off when the room is unoccupied, and recovers before the guest returns.
Between stays
A room out of service holds a deeper setback until housekeeping or the next arrival brings it back.
What the data says
Published figures put automation-driven reductions at 25–35% of guest-room energy use (Hotel Tech Insight, 2026). Your own consumption is what decides the number.
No guest effort
Savings do not depend on signage, key cards in slots, or anyone remembering to switch anything off.
Asset value
A permanent cut in operating cost is not a one-time saving — it lands in NOI every year the property runs. At the multiples hotel assets trade on, that shows up in what the property is worth, not only in what it spends.
Beyond the room

One platform for the entire property

When you are ready, Nexus extends past guest rooms to the rest of the building — and we can run the IT behind it.

Modern hotel lobby with seating

Full-property automation

Conference and event spaces
Restaurants, bars and lobbies
Back-of-house and common areas

Turnkey IT services

Guest and staff WiFi
Network design and management
Access control and camera security

Start with one floor.

No minimums. Pilot Nexus in a handful of rooms or a single floor, measure it against the rest of the property, then roll it out.

Talk to us about your property