Hospitality property management tool and system and method for use of same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12237941-B2
Application number	US-202117545261-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2021
Priority date	Sep 8, 2017
Publication date	Feb 25, 2025
Grant date	Feb 25, 2025

Abstract

A hospitality property management tool and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, thermostats are located in respective rooms at a hospitality establishment. The thermostats are joined in network communication with environmental amenities, such as lights and a thermostat that respectively controls lighting and temperature. The thermostats utilize an unoccupied room profile and an occupied room profile to set the environmental conditions, such as the lighting and the temperature, in the rooms. A guest preference profile may be activated within a room to provide guest-specific environmental conditions in the room associated with a guest.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for hospitality property management, the system comprising:
a plurality of thermostats located in a respective plurality of rooms at a hospitality establishment having the plurality of rooms;
an unoccupied room profile providing environmental conditions in each of the plurality of rooms when unoccupied, the environmental conditions including lighting;
an occupied room profile providing the environmental conditions in each of the plurality of rooms when occupied; and
each of the plurality of thermostats including:
a housing securing thermostat circuitry, a processor, memory, storage, and a transceiver therein,
a busing architecture communicatively interconnecting the thermostat circuitry, the processor, the memory, the storage, and the transceiver,
the thermostat circuitry configured to monitor and control heating and cooling in a respective room of the plurality of rooms,
the storage storing the unoccupied room profile and the occupied room profile,
the transceiver configured to be joined in network communication with an environmental amenity, the environmental amenity being co-located within the room of the respective thermostat, the environmental amenity controlling the lighting, and
the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
send environmental control information consistent with the unoccupied room profile via the transceiver to the environmental amenity when the room is unoccupied,
upon receipt of a guest preference profile, send the environmental control information consistent with the occupied room profile via the transceiver to the environmental amenity when the room is occupied, the guest preference profile providing the environmental conditions in the room when occupied by a guest corresponding to the guest preference profile, and
upon receipt of the guest preference profile, send the environmental control information consistent with the guest preference profile via the transceiver to the environmental amenity when the room is unoccupied.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the environmental conditions further include temperature.

3. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the environmental conditions further comprise a condition selected from the group consisting of temperature, shade, security locks, and power outlets.

4. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the guest preference profile further comprises an individual sub-profile, a group sub-profile, and selection rules, the individual sub-profile providing the environmental conditions, the group sub-profile providing the environmental conditions, the selection rules selecting between the application of the individual sub-profile and the group sub-profile.

5. The system as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
a housekeeping/maintenance profile, the housekeeping/maintenance profile providing the environmental conditions; and
the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to temporarily override the unoccupied room profile with the housekeeping/maintenance profile.

6. The system as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
a housekeeping/maintenance profile, the housekeeping/maintenance profile providing the environmental conditions; and
the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to temporarily override the occupied room profile with the housekeeping/maintenance profile.

7. The system as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
a housekeeping/maintenance profile, the housekeeping/maintenance profile providing the environmental conditions; and
the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to temporarily override the guest preference profile with the housekeeping/maintenance profile.

8. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the guest preference profile is actuated in the room occupied by the guest corresponding to the guest preference profile.

9. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the particular guest preference profile is actuated in only one room of the plurality of rooms.

10. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of thermostats further comprise a data connection interconnected in the busing architecture.

11. The system as recited in claim 10 , wherein the unoccupied room profile and the occupied room profile are received via the data connection.

12. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the unoccupied room profile and the occupied room profile are received via the transceiver.

13. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the transceiver is configured to communicate with the plurality of proximate amenities via a standard selected from the group consisting of infrared (IR), 802.11, 3G, 4G, Edge, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, near field communications (NFC), Bluetooth, and Bluetooth low energy.

14. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the hospitality establishment is selected from the group consisting of furnished multi-family residences, dormitories, lodging establishments, hotels, hospitals, and multi-unit environments.

15. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the environmental conditions are selected from the group consisting of amenity interaction, lighting status, thermostat status, window shades status, and door status.

16. The system as recited in claim 15 , wherein the environmental conditions further comprises heating cycle.

17. The system as recited in claim 15 , wherein the environmental conditions further comprises cooling cycle.

18. The system as recited in claim 15 , wherein the environmental conditions further comprises setpoint temperature.

19. A system for hospitality property management, the system comprising:
a plurality of thermostats located in a respective plurality of rooms at a hospitality establishment having the plurality of rooms;
an unoccupied room profile providing environmental conditions in each of the plurality of rooms when unoccupied, the environmental conditions including temperature;
an occupied room profile providing the environmental conditions in each of the plurality of rooms when occupied; and
each of the plurality of thermostats including:
a housing securing thermostat circuitry, a processor, memory, storage, and a transceiver therein,
a busing architecture communicatively interconnecting the thermostat circuitry, the processor, the memory, the storage, and the transceiver,
the thermostat circuitry configured to monitor and control heating and cooling in a respective room of the plurality of rooms,
the storage storing the unoccupied room profile and the occupied room profile,
the transceiver configured to be joined in network communication with an environmental amenity, the environmental amenity being co-located within the room of a respective thermostat of the plurality of thermostats, the environmental amenity controlling the temperature, and
the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
send environmental control information consistent with the unoccupied room profile via the transceiver to the environmental amenity when the room is unoccupied,
upon receipt of a guest preference profile, send the environmental control information consistent with th

Assignees

• Enseo Llc

Inventors

• Fang William C
• Miller Thomas R
• Ogle Vanessa

Classifications

• H04N21/4131

  home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices (home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807) · CPC title

• H04N7/17354

  in an intermediate station common to a plurality of user terminals · CPC title

• H04N21/43615

  Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals (home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805) · CPC title

• H04N21/4622

  Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet (web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859) · CPC title

• H04N7/106

  for domestic distribution · CPC title