As an owner, developer or operator in the hospitality or mixed-use sector, you need to deliver value over the long term.
So when planning and developing your properties, you need to think about what you need here and now and about requirements for the longer term.
Design decisions made now must not lock you out of change at a future date, so you need to incorporate flexibility and sustainability from the get-go.
Access control is one of the areas where strategically sound decisions about products and providers can make a significant difference down the track.
Salto—a world leader in flexible, sustainable access solutions—works with developers, owners and operators to help them future-proof their technology stack and adapt to future business requirements.
Salto provides electronic locks, activated by keycards, fobs or a mobile phone app, with the entire system managed from a single centralised system.
Property development in hospitality requires big upfront investment, with returns building over time.
You may want to manage your investment by starting with a base level access management system and extending it as revenues build.
With a Salto access solution, you can start with a limited number of access points (for example, back of house, or bedrooms only).
As the business grows, you can add access solutions to more areas—main doors, lifts, and carparks—or to entire new locations.
Salto’s access control is managed from a central console, enabling you to manage multiple properties from one location.
As your business grows, and particularly if it’s a mixed-use development, you may want to add new functionality—such as end-of-trip facilities, or the option for guests/residents to use their mobile phone as their credential.
Unlike specialist providers who only provide room access, or only lockers, Salto offers multiple functionalities, all managed from a single system, making it straightforward to add functionality.
Integration is an important way of extending the service and capability you offer. It’s important to ensure you can integrate with:
Property management system (PMS) for automated keycard creation, re-rooming and late checkout
Guest room management system (GRMS) for personalised guest experiences and room automation
Building management system (BMS), for integrating CCTV and security and for comprehensive audit and reporting.
New developments must have long-term sustainability, and choice of partners helps you to meet your green responsibilities and targets.
Salto is a member of the Green Council of Australia, and our flagship products have the Environmental Production Declaration (EPD).
The 1Hotel, Melbourne selected Salto for all these reasons – they needed to manage their entire hotel and residential operation from a single system, but with separate functionalities for different parts of the business.
Salto has given them the flexibility to scale the functionality and size of their business well into the future.
To future-proof access control for your hotel or mixed-use development, get in touch with Tanel Paabo (t.paabo@saltosystems.com), the hospitality lead, Oceania for Salto.
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