CUSTOMER CASE Luxury 99-room hotel implements VingCard Signature RFID door locks and access controllers with Mobile Access functionality to ensure both maximized security and a hassle-free hotel environment.

Hotel Nodo Urban Explorer

Customer:

Located in Santiago, Chile, Hotel Nodo Urban Explorer serves as a modern high-rise luxury property that rewards its guests with a modern and trend-setting hotel stay experience. The hotel is also host to several office spaces that are available to businesses for rent.

Challenge:

As a property seeking to provide guests, staff and rented office space workers with total peace-of-mind, Hotel Nodo Urban Explorer sought out a reputable provider that could implement the highest industry standard in security access technology while also ensuring that each individual can experience a seamless and hassle-free hotel environment.  

Solution:

By implementing VingCard Signature RFID on guestroom doors, Hotel Nodo Urban Explorer can benefit from the industry’s highest standards in security encryption protocols to eliminate the threat of unauthorized keycard cloning. Signature RFID also removes the frequent and inconvenient issue of guests having to return to the front desk due to keycards becoming demagnetized. By being implemented alongside Visionline, VingCard Signature RFID can further enhance security and operational efficiency by providing hotel staff with the ability to instantly deactivate keycards that are lost or suspected of being stolen. Visionline additionally notifies employees of potential security threats by issuing alerts for situations such as when a wandering intruder is attempting to use a keycard on multiple doors throughout the property. Staff members can also further enhance guest convenience by allowing staff to extend stays or reassign guests to new rooms without requiring a front desk visit or the issuing of new keycards. With Hotel Nodo Urban Explorer also equipped to provide offices for rent, the presence of VingCard Signature RFID and Visionline likewise provides office workers with the same advanced security protections while ensuring convenient and quick access to office spaces.

Available via the ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions app, Mobile Access is fully enabled on all of Hotel Nodo Urban Explorer’s VingCard Signature RFID-equipped doors, ensuring that individuals can instantly gain access to rooms the very moment they arrive by using personal devices as a digital key. Mobile Access is also available for staff-only areas, providing enhanced operational efficiency by eliminating the need for employees to first obtain a key in order to access a specific area to carry out their responsibilities. With the additional implementation of Mobile Access-compatible access controllers on elevators, emergency bars as well as within parking areas and the hotel’s entrance, guests, office workers and staff can extend the instant convenience that digital key technology provides to virtually all areas throughout the hotel. Demonstrating ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions’ commitment to innovation and ensuring ultimate convenience, regional company technicians also worked with the hotel’s architects in designing an advanced security cabinet equipped with a multi-output controller so that those onsite can likewise use Mobile Access to store and retrieve valued belonging.

Testimonial
Results
  • Ensure guest, staff and office space worker safety using Signature RFID’s advanced data encryption abilities.
  • Enable Mobile Access on guestroom doors, elevators, emergency bars and within parking areas to provide guests, staff and office space employees with seamless and convenient access throughout the property.
  • Utilize ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions’ commitment to innovation to collaborate in the creation of an advanced security cabinet that is compatible with Mobile Access. 

Balancing effective security and guest convenience is a challenge that all hotels must get exactly right in order to operate as a successful business and maintain reputations, and ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions provides the ideal combination of innovation and expertise to fully achieve this goal. Guests, office workers and staff at our property know that their safety is a top priority due to the presence of ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions technology, and with availability of advanced platforms such as Mobile Access, can nonetheless obtain a hassle-free experience in seamlessly navigating the property environment

- Diego Cardenas Montero, General Manager at Hotel Nodo Urban Explorer.

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