A room's access control technology automatically adjusts the functions of Guest Room Management and Energy Management systems by detecting guest presence and triggering a communications network between cloud and IoT devices.  In the Zulu language, the typical greeting is “Sawubona”. Unlike the English “Hello”, if you greet someone by saying “Sawubona”, it is a more personal and respectful statement meaning, “I see you”. And the traditional answer to “I see you” is “Ngikhona”, which means, “I am here”. When someone responds to you, “Ngikhona”, it tells you that they acknowledge you, and they understand that your personal dignity has been recognized. The underlying meaning is that “Until you see me, I do not exist”. With Guest Room Management and Energy Management platforms and devices, similar conversations are happening all the time. The value of cloud, smart, and IoT devices is not fully realized until they are recognized by other devices and by the platforms they communicate with. An example would be a Hotel guest who checks in remotely using the Hotel app. The PMS system alerts the Guest Room Management System and the Energy Management System that the guest room will soon have a new occupant. The room temperature [...]

Faced with rising energy and gas costs, GRMS solutions designed by the VDA Group can help the hotelier optimize energy savings and pursue sustainability goals. The future of Hospitality aims at the digitalization and automation of services. The installation of artificial intelligence technologies allows Hotels to save on costs and energy consumption, in addition to all the advantages brought into Hotel management activities. The latest challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the positive aspects of these new solutions, exhibiting how essential it is to be able to remotely manage customer needs. For hoteliers who want to upgrade the structure using cutting-edge solutions, the VDA Group systems represent a safe and reliable investment to improve the management of the Hotel Rooms, optimize existing resources, and control consumption for a greener Hotel. In fact, by digitizing management processes you can achieve significant savings, integrate innovation, control costs, and reduce consumption. Etheos is the cloud-based Guest Room Management System designed by VDA to manage all the Rooms functionalities remotely via portable devices. The system is designed to allow the hotelier to improve the integrated control of all activities, and when integrated with the Energy Management System, to optimize energy savings, [...]

An important step in the creation of a Group that places people at the center of smart technology evolution in the world of Hospitality. Pordenone, Italy – VDA Group, an Italian multinational operating in the field of Guest Room Management Systems (GRMS) designed for the Hospitality industry, has acquired 53% of the shares of Telkonet, Inc., a US-based company listed on the OTC market and operating in the field of Energy Management Systems (EMS). The new Group - with 7,000 properties and 2,450,000 products installed in facilities located in the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Asia - stands as the largest global player in a market currently without leadership, to define the future of the industry by emphasizing the value of People in the development of technologies aimed at comfort and energy savings. Expansion and dimensional growth, synergy in technology and market, and an opportunity to be a unique proxy for Hotel chains. These are the objectives of the newly formed Group that sees the possibility of being a solution provider, the global reference point of IoT technologies applied to the world of Hospitality. The software and hardware proficiencies, technologies based on cloud, the ability to adapt to [...]

The VDA Group - Trilux partnership to provide an enhanced guest experience to the global market Dubai, 19th September 2021 – VDA Group, a 40-year-old Italian manufacturer specialising in the development of advanced solutions for integrated Room Management and Interactive Television systems, for the international hospitality industry, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with TRILUX Simplify Your Light, presenting the most simple and reliable path to customized, energy-efficient, and sustainable lighting solutions globally. “VDA Group with its strong presence and focus into the hospitality market, with over 3000+ hotels and 300,000 keys as an installed base, and Trilux with a compelling reach and penetration across the Middle East - ASEAN region with a strong partner distribution structure, paves a perfect symbiotic relationship with VDA to cater together towards the hospitality market”, says Anoop Paul the CSO of VDA Group MEA. The VDA Group - Trilux partnership creates a unique synergy, which compliments the go-to-market strategy of both groups by virtue of a unified approach. When Lighting and the Guest Room Management System is offered as a combined proposition, it creates a fundamental dynamism that enhances and uplifts the guest experience. "TRILUX has with VDA Group the distinguished proposition [...]

The last Management Meeting of VDA Group took place in the wonderful Secret Gardens of Villa Marcello Marinelli, in order to share a new moment in the open air and to look to the Group's near future. On July 29 the Management Meeting finally took place in person, after we had been meeting on Zoom for over a year. Given the occasion, we wanted to make it special not only to share the achievements of the first semester of 2021, but also to create a moment in which the Managers and the different departments could exchange views regarding the processes and the cultural and organizational evolution taking place lately, while also looking at the future and the future developments awaiting for us. We chose a special location that could welcome and allow us to be outside to spend time together without the division posed by monitors and masks, embodying our company values and allowing us to reduce the distance that often, when physical, can correspond to a mental one. The Giardini Segreti di Villa Marcello Marinelli, located in Cison di Valmarino, have made all this possible, allowing us to be in one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, [...]