Hotels and hospitality
Know what's wrong before your guests do.
A warm ballroom, a stuffy corridor or a cold shower is a guest problem long before it is an engineering ticket. Smart Tenants reads the air handlers, chillers, exhaust fans and meters all night and hands the engineering team a ranked list at the start of the shift, with the first thing to check on each. Ownership sees the same picture in plain language, with energy and cost per occupied room-night.
Who it helps
How do we find building problems before they reach the guest experience?
For the general manager and owner
- Fewer guest complaints that trace back to the plant.
- One view of the property’s health without reading a controller.
- Energy and cost per occupied room-night, tied to the occupancy you already report.
- Carbon from metered energy for brand and sustainability commitments.
For the director of engineering
- A short list every morning, ranked by severity and how long it has been going on.
- Likely causes and the recommended check before anyone goes to the roof.
- Ballroom, kitchen and back-of-house exhaust watched continuously, not when someone notices.
- Recurring conditions kept visible across shifts and contractors.
For guests and staff
- Rooms and public spaces that stay comfortable because faults are found while they are still equipment problems.
- Ventilation in meeting rooms and ballrooms checked against CO2 and occupancy.
- Fewer disruptions from emergency repairs.
A morning briefing
What the engineering team sees first.
Every condition is ranked by severity, how long it has been going on and whether it has happened before, with the first check written out. The team starts at the top.
What Smart Tenants watches
- Air handlers serving ballrooms, corridors, restaurants and back of house
- Chiller plant staging, compressor behaviour and supply temperature
- Chiller room, kitchen and laundry exhaust fans
- Guest-floor fan coils and terminal units where they are controlled
- Main meters, with cost per occupied room-night when occupancy is available
Morning briefing
Example resort property, 6:00 AM
- 1AHU-12 Ballroomcritical
No airflow while occupied. High-static safety tripped.
Do firstInspect the dampers and ductwork before resetting the safety.
What the data shows
- Fan commanded on since 05:00; fan proof off.
- Duct static near zero against setpoint.
- High-static safety tripped at 04:48, ballroom occupied from 07:00.
What is inferred
A high-static trip followed by a stopped fan points to a blocked path downstream, not the fan itself.
What to check
Walk the dampers and ductwork before resetting the safety.
- 2EF-3 Kitchenhigh
Commanded on, not proven. Kitchen above setpoint.
Do nextInspect the starter and belt, then confirm fan proof.
What the data shows
- Exhaust fan commanded on; not proven.
- Kitchen temperature above setpoint and rising since 05:30.
What is inferred
A commanded fan that does not prove is a starter, belt or motor problem, and the kitchen temperature is the consequence.
What to check
Inspect the starter and belt; once the fan proves, confirm the kitchen recovers.
- 3Chiller 1watch
Compressor loading hunting while supply temperature holds.
Do nextReview the capacity-control deadband at the panel.
What the data shows
- Compressor loading swinging between 50 and 65 while supply temperature holds steady.
- No change in load or setpoint over the same period.
What is inferred
Modulation hunting rather than cycling: a capacity-control tuning problem, not a load problem.
What to check
Review the capacity-control deadband and integral gain at the panel.
Comfort, energy and carbon
Hospitality runs its plant hard around the clock, so the silent faults cost the most and the guest notices first.
- Ventilation quality: CO2 in meeting rooms and ballrooms checked against occupancy and ASHRAE 62.1 guidance. A sensor reading high with nobody in the room is reported as a sensor problem, not an air problem.
- Economizer checks: free cooling taken when the outside air allows it, and outside air never imported against a saturated cooling coil.
- Coil checks: chilled water flowing through a stopped unit, or heating and cooling fighting each other, found even on units without temperature sensors.
- Carbon: kilowatt-hours converted to CO2 equivalent with published grid factors for your region, ready for sustainability reporting.
- Proof of savings: a weather-normalised baseline so an operational change can be measured rather than asserted.
What would Smart Tenants find in your building?
Tell us about your building systems and we will show you what a morning briefing would say.