The Houghton Hotel
Location: Johannesburg - South Africa
Project type: Luxury Hotels Bussiness
The Houghton Hotel a lifestyle destination to those who want to extract only the best Johannesburg has to offer in a prime and secure environment. Being a member of the prestigious 5 star luxury brand, the “Leading Hotels of the World” with South African properties alike, such as The Saxon Hotel, Michelangelo, The Oyster Box and The Twelve Apostles. The new development required Access control for the guest rooms, apartments, and back of house services.
Differentiated from the rest, it is a uniquely constructed product that showcases great architecture and design allowing for ultimate privacy and convenience, catering to the various segmented groups and individual markets.
Figures
- 86 guest rooms
- 7 penthouses
- 6 lifts
- 12 back of house doors
- 54 complimentary mortises and handles
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Ethnic Technologies was tasked with the IT security needs for the Houghton Hotel. As a specialist consulting firm, they needed to put forward a solution to cater for the hotel guest requirements and turnkey access control functionality. The challenge was to find a fit for purpose solution that was not only secure and future proof with NFC and BLE technologies, but it needed to be modern and scalable. It also needed to provide an aesthetic appealing integration to the architectural design of the doors and rooms. Finding all of the above and remaining cost effective with quality solutions can be very challenging.
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An RFI (Request for Information) was put out to manufacturers and based on the total requirements a shortlist created of which Salto was part off.
Pricing was a factor, but one big requirement was the aesthetics and access control functionality the solution needed to provide.
Salto has a big range of products and offers a full-blown access control platform in a single solution and ultimately won the project based on overall range and functionality we could offer cost effectively.
The strength in the Salto SVN offering was a great feature in the offline solution and managing data on a daily basis.
Front of house Reception needed the Salto Access control system to interface with Protel a PMS solution (Property Management Solution) chosen by The Houghton to allow easy assignment to guest rooms and any back of house doors. While Salto Space access control software is used by back of house operators to manage staff and contractors. The Salto Space Access Control software platform can offer integration to PMS solutions and in the same platform offer a turnkey solution to all the Hotels access control requirements.
Systems Africa a Salto IBP was tasked to deliver on the solution and secured 86 guest rooms, 7 penthouses, 6 lifts, 12 back of house doors and to ensure that all the doors ironmongery matched they also supplied and installed 54 complimentary mortises and handles.
Key benefits
- Integration with PMS solution.
- Aesthetic handle and product finish.
- BLE and NFC functionality for mobile devices.
- Single software solution delivering on hospitality and access control requirements.
- Secure future proof technology.
- Fit for purpose solution.
It was truly an honor working on this project. New built projects need a lot of time to get to a final solution handover and there is bound to be challenges along the way, be clear in everything you can offer to always be able to deliver on your solution promised. There are a lot of moving parts and many people who has a responsibility on the build and working in tandem and having all people onboard is key to any successful solution.
