New York, NY. – WiSuite, a leading provider of guest room energy management systems for the hospitality industry, announced today that it has completed implementation of its WiSuite Intelligent Network (WIN) in all 189 rooms of the Marriott’s Courtyard New York Manhattan/Fifth Avenue property. WiSuite delivers bottom line control, helping property managers directly eliminate unnecessary heating and cooling costs.

WiSuite’s technology helps hoteliers capture energy cost savings by monitoring guest room occupancy in real time. The implementation delivers improvements to Marriott’s Courtyard New York Manhattan/
Fifth Avenue property financials, environmental sustainability and guest comfort. The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates annual energy costs to be $2,196 per room across the country’s 47,000 hotel properties; that’s 6 percent of a property’s operating costs. In a high-cost energy market such as New York City, energy costs claim an even larger share of profits. WIN’s real-time property management interface connects with any hotel’s property management system, empowering hotel management to automatically reduce energy consumption in vacant rooms.

“Marriott understands that conservation and community sustainability is more than a moral imperative; it also makes good business sense,” noted John Gallant, CEO of WiSuite USA. “Smart, socially responsible policies reward Marriott with customer preference and loyalty from the next generation travelers and workforce and its continuing efforts to innovate for more resource-efficient hotels should be applauded by guests and industry alike.”

Vacant rooms aren’t the only place where hotels can save. Vacancy rates vary by hotel, but industry data show that 50-70 percent of booked rooms are unoccupied during daytime hours. On a room-to-room level,
dynamic links between the WiStat-SS Smart Screen thermostats and property HVACs help property engineers to extract additional savings from booked, but unoccupied, rooms in a manner transparent to guests.

Realizing this cost saving potential is another reason why customers who install WiSuite’s WIN reap returns on investment in fewer than three years, on average. Additionally, hotels that promote the sustainability benefits of these energy conservation practices can benefit from greater guest satisfaction and customer loyalty.

ABOUT WISUITE
WiSuite, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, is a leading American manufacturer of advanced software-based energy management solutions and in-room controls for the lodging, healthcare, and educational customers throughout the world. WiSuite’s Intelligent Network, along with the WiStat-SS product line, provides comprehensive savings, management and reporting of a building’s energy consumption. Its lodging customers include leading global brands ranging from mid-scale hotels to five-star luxury properties, including Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, IHG, casinos and many others.

Department of Energy report notes energy consumption drops over 18 percent when using company’s innovative WIN solution.

DETROIT — WiSuite, the world leader in hotel guest room energy management solutions, demonstrated outstanding energy savings and return on investment in a recently released U.S. Department of Energy report.

The study reviewed potential energy and cost savings for the hotel industry by employing Occupancy Based Controls (OBC) as part of their heating, ventilation and cooling systems (HVAC). Six Marriott-branded hotels across the country utilized five different manufacturers’ products to test the effectiveness and possible energy savings in a sector that uses the fifth largest amount of energy amongst commercial buildings.

Over the course of the nine-month study, the WiSuite-enabled hotel produced an 18.3 percent average energy savings, leading all participants with the top calculated energy savings score of 589(kWH/room/yr). WiSuite’s technology also resulted in the highest annual cost savings of $79.03 per hotel room.

“We are extremely pleased to see an independent study demonstrate the significant energy savings WiSuite can generate for hotels,” company president John Gallant said. “Hotels are looking for answers to cut high overhead costs without impacting guest comfort. We are able to offer an eco-friendly solution that has a short ROI for property owners. The Department of Energy report validates WiSuite’s effectiveness.”

WiSuite installed its WIN system (Wireless Intelligent Network) that included smart thermostats along with wireless door and motion sensors in rooms of the Washington D.C. Mayflower Renaissance for the study, which evaluated rented rooms from December 2011 to August 2012.

Studies have shown that hotel guest room energy usage accounts for the majority of energy use within the hospitality industry, typically between 40 and 80 percent. “WiSuite’s platform gives hotels the ability to significantly reduce their guest room energy spend in unoccupied rooms. Savings have ranged from 20 to 48 percent. Owners are now able to make a positive impact on the environment without affecting customer satisfaction,” Gallant added.

WiSuite continues to be the choice of a growing number of hotel ownership groups. Its WIN platform is a wireless real-time control system that solves hotels’ energy management challenges and objectives. Communicating with the facility’s existing property management system, WiSuite yields maximum control and efficiency. The company, founded in 2008, is based in Detroit, Michigan.