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Hotel Management
Finnish security researcher company F-Secure has found design flaws that allow hackers to open hotel room doors without leaving any record on older model Vingcard's Vision locks. By getting hold of a used hotel keycard, an attacker could create a master key to unlock any room in the building without leaving a trace, security consultants Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen said in a study published this week.
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Green Lodging News
In the highly competitive lodging market, remodeling is a great way to edge out the competition. And in today's world, being environmentally conscious and incorporating green initiatives when remodeling should be a high priority for many hotels. It not only benefits building operators and their guests but the planet too. With this in mind, hotel operators can incorporate professionally installed window film as an economical means to advance their green initiatives.
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Science Trends
In building energy modeling, there are two areas that can be improved including the modeling process and outputs. Existing computer tools and methods focused on building energy modeling are capable tools that can provide accurate results; however, this process can be faster, automated, less error-prone and the outputs can be more detailed or granular.
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Scott E. Rupp
The Environmental Protection Agency offers a guide to reducing waste for commercial building facility managers. For those in the profession, the guide might be old news, but for rookies and veterans alike it serves as a good educational tool for those who manage office buildings, schools, stores, hotels, restaurants, and other commercial and institutional buildings.
These facilities generate significant amounts of waste that must be managed efficiently, economically and environmentally. The benefits of proper waste management are enormous, and much greater than simply getting the trash out.
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Lodging
Mobile keys are a relatively new technology, but they are rapidly gaining a foothold in the lodging industry. Of course, as with most mobile tech, securing data sent and received via mobile keys is of the utmost importance to hoteliers. Michel Chamberland, a lead researcher at security firm Trustwave, describes four steps hoteliers can take to improve mobile key security.
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Skift
It's still light years away before hotels offer voice-controlled guest rooms, but Hilton Worldwide has taken a step toward that happy future by adding a feature to its mobile app that lets your smartphone act like a remote control for key room functions.
At select properties, users of the Hilton Honors app can control the TV, lighting, and temperature of their guest room.
But chances are small that your next stay at a Hilton this year will encounter the Jetsons-like functionality.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
The latest big wave in technology is being created by blockchain: a cloud-based, distributed digital ledger of activities between parties. Blockchain technology will undoubtedly be integrated much faster than TCP/IP; and it can unlock future benefits for facility management operations. While blockchain is still a long way from being mainstream, the time to prepare for it is now.
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Proud Green Building
Millions of gallons of water are wasted every day in the United States. While several factors contribute to that waste, the two main issues are undetected leaks caused by an aging infrastructure and faulty irrigation systems/procedures incorporated by scores of property owners.
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FacilitiesNet
Surveys of facility managers have shown that the frequency of complaints about restrooms ranks second only to those concerning building temperatures. Common complaints range from cleanliness to lack of supplies. There is no question that budget constraints have resulted in smaller maintenance and cleaning crews, higher rates of personnel turnover, and constraints on what types of cleaning equipment and supplies can be purchased. As a result, many have had to cut back on the frequency of cleaning activities, which can add to the number of complaints.
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Inhabitat
Visitors to Uruguay’s Maldonado region can soon stay in a stunning new hotel, which is tucked into 250 acres of gorgeous natural landscape. The Sacromonte Landscape Hotel — designed by local firm MAPA Architects — is a green-roofed mountain retreat that uses mirrored exteriors to strategically blend into its surroundings. The sustainable hotel complex, which is comprised of 13 individual cabins, a winery and a farm-to-table restaurant, was completely prefabricated off site to reduce the project’s footprint.
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