MCLEAN, VA—Hilton has unveiled Connected Room, a high-tech guestroom that enables guests to personalize and control every aspect of their stay from one central point—their mobile device. Currently in beta testing, Connected Room is live in one hotel, will deploy in coming weeks in several more, and will begin to scale rapidly to hotels across the United States in 2018.
Guests who stay at Connected Room-enabled properties will soon be able to use the Hilton Honors app to manage most things they would traditionally do manually in a room, from controlling the temperature and lighting to the TV and window coverings. Guests will also be able to personalize their room with technology that loads the most popular streaming media and other accounts to in-room TVs.
In the longer-term, Connected Room will support a range of connected devices, engagements and experiences. Guests will able to use voice commands to control their room or access their content, and to upload their own artwork and photos to automatically display in their room. Guests will also be able to set various preferences in their Hilton Honors account profile to further customize their in-room experience to their individual preferences.
Designed and built by Hilton from the ground up, Connected Room is a natural extension of the Hilton Honors app’s existing capabilities. Its creation was rooted in the unique needs of guests, who have voiced an increasing desire to personalize their stays. The beta version of Connected Room uses a physical remote control to manage the experience, with the goal of supplementing it and all traditional remote controls with the Hilton Honors app before deployment at hotels across the portfolio. Hilton is working with popular streaming media providers to enable guests to seamlessly access their favorite programs in Connected Room hotels.
Instead of relying on new hardware to update hotel rooms, Hilton can more efficiently push software updates through the platform to create new experiences and offer new features. Connected Room also has implications for Hilton’s corporate responsibility program, Travel with Purpose. The technology will give guests the option to help conserve energy by syncing the air conditioning with their schedule and allow hotel operators to monitor how their hotels are managing energy in real time to ensure they are effectively reducing environmental impact. Hilton Team Members will also benefit from Connected Room since the platform will provide them with better insight into guest preferences.
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