Evolve Guest Controls News
Evolve Guest Controls helps Wynn Las Vegas win IES Illumination Award
Evolve Guest Controls is honored to help Wynn Las Vegas win an IES Illumination Award of Merit, for its implementation of over 2,670 integrated lighting and automation control systems in Wynn’s guest rooms and suites. Each of Wynn’s guest rooms and suites were tailored to the exact specifications of Wynn’s designers via custom programming and implementation of personalized lighting scenes. All of Evolve’s systems communicate wirelessly, creating the most flexible and customizable in-room control system on the market. For more information on this award please visit: http://www.iesla.org/index-4.html
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Evolve Guest Controls installswireless energy management technology into 1,455 Amsterdam Hospitality guest rooms
Evolve Guest Controls’ guest room energy management technology is being installed in1,455of Amsterdam Hospitality’s guest rooms.
Amsterdam Hospitality has selected the Ameritania, Bentley, Berkley, Blake, Marcel and Moderne hotels located in New York City, New Jersey, and North Carolina as sites to install Evolve’s systems.To further improve upon Evolve’s ROI, each New York and North Carolina property has also qualified for energy efficiency rebates through NYSERDA and Duke Energy.
Each of Evolve’s devices are built on an expandable platform. This allows for the future addition and integrationwith existing and new products and technology, and would enable its EvolveNet back office system to assist housekeeping, engineering, and the front desk access all room information “in the cloud”.
Evolve is expanding upon its existing Keycard system, Director Series, and EvolveNet products by introducing a sensor based system and the Evolve AI interactive guest experience. Evolve will be displaying these new systems at the HITEC Hospitality Trade Show in Austin, TXon June 20th, 2011.
About Evolve Guest Controls:
Evolve Guest Controls, an affiliated company of the Mason Family of Companies, was created to enhance energy efficiency and guest controlin the Hospitality Industry. Evolve’s solutions target each of the three main energy consumers in a guest room, including lighting, HVAC, and the television.
Hoteliers can expect a 25%-40% savings on their guest room energy costs with an approximate ROI of 2 years. Evolve’s versatile energy management systems have been installed in hotels ranging from 28 rooms to as large as 2,700 rooms, and qualifies nationally for federal and state energy efficiency rebates.
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Ecofocus – Evolve LCD Director Series
This link contains a video of Evolve’s Chris Pieper showing the LCD Director Series products at EcoFocus in New York City.
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Evolve Guest Controls installs 65,000 wireless switches and thermostats at the Wynn resort
It isn’t often that we cover developments in hotel technology, but a project at the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas deserves some special attention. In an installation deployed by Evolve Guest Controls, almost every single lighting and climate control device in the entire 2,600 room hotel was replaced by wireless RF controls. With the new wireless switches, guests can use remote controls to operate lights and climate controls in their room, all without leaving their bed.
Other hotels have installed the Evolve Guest Controls system to reduce their energy costs — the Westin Georgetown deployed the system and saw an immediate reduction in energy usage by up to 40%.
Hotel rooms can be outfitted with special keycard readers, RF enabled light switches, smart thermostats and switching wall outlets, and each component can communicate with the others using Z-Wave technology.
Future expansions to the Evolve system could even include automated drape controls and a centralized management system, allowing the property to save energy for entire floors that are not in use.
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How an Automation Newcomer Won the Wynn Hotel
The Wynn Las Vegas is surrounded by other lavish properties on the Strip, each of which attempts to one-up the other with trendy shows, world-class restaurants, dazzling art and luxury accommodations … not to mention the actual hotel rooms.
High-tech arms races have recently dictated in-room control of audio, video, motorized shades, lights, thermostats, room service and other niceties for guests.
City Center Las Vegas recently opened down the street from the Wynn, with two hotels featuring in-room amenities from Control4. Crestron automation graces high-end suites at the MGM and elsewhere. And other leading brands provide automated amenities up and down the strip.
So when the Wynn decided to renovate its five-year-old property, you’d think the hotel would invite a major automation brand into its refurbished guest rooms. Instead , it focused on simplicity.
For automating its 2,716 rooms, Wynn selected Evolve Guest Controls.
Evolve who?!
Founded in 2008, Evolve Guest Controls sprang from Mason Contract Products, LLC, an established manufacturer of bedding, window treatments and motorization for the hospitality industry. Len Horowitz, CEO of both companies, decided to enter the guest-room automation business after several visits overseas left him intrigued by the European keycard system. Over there, when a card is slid into the keycard reader inside the room, the system automatically sets the space to HOME mode. When the keycard is removed from the reader, the system sets the room into an energy-saving AWAY mode.
Photos: How an Automation Newcomer Won the Wynn Hotel
“We wanted to bring an enhanced concept to the U.S.,” says Horowitz. “Evolve created a more technologically advanced, wireless keycard system designed for retrofit situations.”
Horowitz says the Evolve solution has been installed in “numerous” hotels, but the company is still an infant compared with the established control vendors used by hotels and other multi-dwelling units (MDU).
“All of them competed for the Wynn job,” says Evolve vice president Avi Rosenthal. “We got it.”
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Hilton’s Inn at Penn installs Evolve system and receives $100K government grant
The Inn at Penn, A Hilton Hotel, is also the beneficiary of a $100,000 energy improvement grant to support the installation of the Evolve® guestroom lighting and temperature control system. The hotel is expected to reduce its energy consumption by as much as 30 percent annually with this new technology, which activates in-room lighting, heating and air conditioning upon guest arrival.
The implementation of these innovative features further strengthens the hotel’s ongoing efforts to reduce its overall carbon footprint
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Evolve Installed at Wynn Las Vegas
Evolve Guest Controls has had the honor of designing, developing and implementing the single largest successful deployment of wireless RF lighting and energy management devices to date.
This deployment of our Director Series LCD displays is located at The Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. With over 65,000 devices residing in over 2,600 rooms and suites, Evolve’s technical achievements in RF design, software and programming is unrivaled.
Each of our devices is built on an expandable platform. This allows for the future addition of new products and technology, and would enable our EvolveNet back office system to assist housekeeping, engineering, and the front desk access all room information “in the cloud”.
Evolve Guest Controls Joins the Z-Wave Alliance as Principal Member
MILPITAS, CA–(Marketwire – 05/23/11) – The Z-Wave Alliance, an open consortium of leading global companies dedicated to establishing Z-Wave as the standard in wireless home control, today announced the addition of Evolve Guest Controls as its newest principal member. Evolve Guest Controls, a leading provider of energy management solutions, joins an impressive list of industry leaders on the Z-Wave Alliance board of directors including: 2Gig Technologies, Cooper Wiring Devices, Danfoss, Fakro, Ingersoll Rand, Leviton and Sigma Designs.
Evolve offers a comprehensive solution to its hospitality customers via Z-Wave energy and device management tools for in-room control options, including: lighting, TV, electronics and thermostat products. To date, Evolve Guest Controls has installed the largest Z-Wave commercial installation project with more than 65,000 Z-Wave enabled devices in a single hotel.
“The Z-Wave Alliance is pleased to welcome Evolve Guest Controls as a principal member,” said Raoul Wijgergangs, chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance. “We commend Evolve for its success in paving the way to provide commercial scale Z-Wave based energy management solutions to the hospitality industry and their leadership in board activities will be a welcome addition.”
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Evolve Guest Controls Conquers Another Hotel
After winning the bid to automate the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas in 2010 and wowing both owners and guests with a dazzling array of gadgets, Evolve Guest Controls moved on to another marquee project it hopes will deliver similar reviews.
Work on The Inn at Penn, a flagship Hilton hotel on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, included a complete renovation of 275 rooms, including upgraded HVAC systems, new lighting controls, new TV power controls, and retrofitted wiring…
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Evolve Trade Shows and Events
BITAC International Luxury 2011 – March 27th-29 Fairmont Southampton Bermuda
BITAC Tech & Operations 2011 – May 1st-3rd El Conquistador Resort & Spa Puerto Rico
HD Las Vegas May 18-20 Sands Convention Center Las Vegas NV
HITEC June 20-23 Austin Convention Center, Austin TX
BITAC Purchasing & Design East 2011-July 17th-19th The Peabody Resort & Spa Orlando FL
HD Miami Sept 13-14 Miami Beach Convention Center Miami Beach FL
BITAC Purchasing & Design West -Oct 16th -18th La Quinta Spa & Resort Palm Springs, NV
IHM&RS November 12-15 Jacob Javitz Center NY
