Airwave at Work - Hotels

THE HOXTON SOUTHWARK Hoxton, the impossibly cool, but a ordable brand has opened its third London hotel. The 13-storey site includes a seafood restaurant, rooftop bar, meeting & event spaces and 192 trendy bedrooms.

Of course, each of the bedrooms had to be furnished with an aesthetically pleasing television system.

Ensuring as slim a footprint as possible, Airwave engineers customised Btech wall brackets, ahead of wall-mounting 192 x 43HGEE690 displays. Samsung’s 690 Series’ slim, stylish design adds ambience to a hotel room whilst ensuring the guest’s focus remains fi rmly on the screen.

Enhancing the premium guest experience, Airwave deployed a Samsung REACH system, providing an interactive customer interface whilst also enabling the seamless management and maintenance of the hotel’s TVs.

“I felt a little out of place amidst the cool people at Hoxton Southwark” said Head of Hospitality Sales, Wayne Bowring “but was nevertheless delighted to THE CHEVAL RESIDENCES, GLOUCESTER PARK The Cheval Residences provide luxury apartment accommodation in London’s Gloucester Park.

Available as both short and long-term stay assist with the provision of a top-quality TV system!”

options, Cheval o er 98 beautifully appointed living spaces, incorporating a mixture of 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments and stunning 5-bed penthouses.

Looking for a modern, but simple hospitality TV system, Cheval approached Airwave, experts in the supply of display-based technology to the serviced apartment industry.

In this instance, Samsung’s HGEJ690 hospitality TVs ticked the right boxes.

Airwave supplied and wall-mounted a mixture of 32-inch, 43-inch, 55-inch and 65-inch displays, installing a total of 290 screens across the property.

As is always the case with serviced apartments, Cheval requested extra functionality from each television. Namely, centralised TV management and embedded information services, allowing the dissemination of resident and property information via interactive pages on the TV.

To service the requests, Airwave embedded an Otrum CTRL cloud-based interactive information system on each TV.

Of course, a television’s primary function is entertainment, and with this in mind, Airwave incorporated hospitality certifi ed Google Chromecast, allowing guests to cast content from a smart device to the room’s television.

“An information system coupled with Google Chromecast is fast becoming a standard” said Sales Director, Paul Chambers “this system o ers operational agility whilst providing guests with an infi nite supply of content from apps such as Netfl ix and YouTube.”

THE ABBEY HOTEL, BATH The Abbey Hotel sits over three interconnected 18th-century townhouses in the beating heart of Bath’s vibrant city. Uniquely presented, and featuring a restaurant modelled by Marco Pierre White and Pierre Ko mann, the Abbey provides a luxurious, boutique experience.

Abbey was keen to provide both an information and entertainment element to their new TV system, whilst also needing some backend infrastructure to support the new technology.

Required infrastructure included satellite, aerial and headend equipment, all were duly installed ahead of the arrival of the hotel’s new TVs.

A mixture of 43-inch and 55-inch Samsung EJ690U Series hospitality TVs were wall-mounted on BTech brackets, and an Otrum Enterprise information system was implemented on each TV - Enterprise is a powerful software platform, delivering a seamless user experience across TVs, tablets and smartphones.

Adding further functionality, Airwave implemented hospitality certifi ed Google Chromecast, allowing guests to cast their own content to the in-room TV.

And for guests that don’t have access to a movie streaming service or smart device - or for those that simply enjoy a traditional pay-as-you-play hotel movie, an Airtime service was implemented.

“With Otrum Enterprise, Chromecast and Airtime, Abbey’s guests will benefi t from an all-singing, all dancing television system” said Airwave Head of National Accounts, Adam Jones. MALMAISON EDINBURGH Malmaison is a collection of 16 boutique hotels in the UK, each site o ering stylish, experience based, city centre accommodation.

Edinburgh City is Scotland’s fi fth Malmaison site, boasting an enviable location in Edinburgh’s New Town district, a stone’s throw from the iconic Princes Street.

With Malmaison looking for a modern, value-driven hotel TV system, Airwave recommended the Cello CTSACC hospitality TV series.

Cello’s CTSACC series – exclusive to Airwave - o ers full hospitality TV features with built-in Google Chromecast functionality - at a market leading price.

To complement each 40-inch Cello TV, Airwave installed and deployed an AirMedia RF information system.

AirMedia RF is a low cost, innovative and fl exible interactive information system, designed to deliver customisable information pages on hospitality TVs.

“Cello’s CTSACC series and AirMedia RF work together to provide a compelling value-driven hotel TV system“ said Key Account Manager, David Taylor, “and to deliver this into a brand of Malmaison’s stature is a credit to the quality of the system.”

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