In today’s hospitality landscape, guest comfort and operational efficiency must go hand in hand — especially when it comes to energy usage. With rising energy costs and increasing expectations for sustainability, hotels are seeking smarter solutions that give them visibility, control, and savings. The recent case study from Yabune (“How to Save Cost and Analyze Energy Consumption of a Hotel”) shows how one hotel chain implemented a Z-Wave-based Smart Hotel Solution to do just that.
What Yabune’s Smart Hotel Solution Did
Here are some of the key features and results from the project:
- Over 750 rooms across 4 hotels were outfitted with sensors (temperature, presence, door/window, etc.), relays, and energy monitors.
Yabune home - High-granularity data: daily collection of tens of gigabytes of sensor/energy data, enabling detailed dashboards by room, floor, circuit, and device.
Yabune home - Use of Z-Wave technology (with devices from Aeotec, Fibaro, etc.) to monitor and control lighting, outlets, heating/cooling, while avoiding interference issues common in WiFi or 2.4 GHz environments.
Yabune home - Automation of energy-saving behaviours: for example, turning off or switching modes of fan-coil or towel heaters depending on room occupancy or window-status, implementing ECO modes, etc.
Yabune home - Visualization & anomaly detection: dashboards to spot abnormal usage or malfunctioning devices, enabling proactive maintenance and guest-behavior insights.
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Why Z-Wave Was a Strong Choice
- Reliability & mesh networking in radio-crowded environments (lots of WiFi, many devices per room) – Z-Wave’s 868 MHz spectrum helps.
Yabune home - Interoperability: multiple manufacturers (relays, thermostats, sensors) working together.
- Scalability: from pilot in a single hotel wing to full deployments across multiple sites.
What Hotels & Partners Can Learn From This
- Measure first: installing the right monitoring is essential before optimization.
- Dashboarding matters: having live & historical data, by room/floor, helps expose inefficiencies.
- Automation + configurable logic provides significant savings (e.g. turning devices off when not needed).
- Preventive maintenance via anomaly detection saves cost & guest complaints.
Want to dive deeper into how a Z-Wave-powered Smart Hotel Solution can deliver energy savings, operational improvements, and happier guests? Read the full case study on Yabune’s site here.
