Equipment and software for offline hotel ACS
This subsection contains equipment and software for offline hotel HSU ACS running ILMS. This solution, proven by many years of successful operation, provides a hotel with a combination of reliability and affordable price. The ILMS-based solution uses only copy-protected Mifare cards. The applied principle of recording guest authorization data directly to the card in the encrypted form provides flexibility in managing guest access to locks, including locks in common areas that are determined at the time the guest checks in. On the other hand, you can get the free circulation of guest cards: a card is not tied to a particular lock.
Equipment and software for online hotel ACS
This subsection contains equipment and software for online hotel HSU ACS running HTLock. These solutions are intended for hotel owners who prefer using all modern methods of guest authorization in online locks, such as a classic guest card, permanent guest card, smartphone, password (lock passcode), and remote opening. And at the same time, these means provide full control over the use of rooms, including remote door opening in real time.
Reports on issuing cards, door opening events, including authorizations received from the hotel PMS, by guest names are available to the manager or hotel owner. If an online energy-saving switch is installed in the room, a hotel manager can track whose card is used in the room. For example, if the staff card stays in the pocket for a long time, such an event is reflected in the corresponding report on the unusual use of the hotel room.
The HTLock-based solution was designed specially for the hotel industry (was not just adapted to it) and should be installed directly on the hotel server. This ensures the functioning of the solution in case of any communication fault. For small hotels, this is a maintenance-free nettop has size as small as a book.
Both solutions can be integrated into hotel management systems (PMS). The HSU PMS integration module provides the issuance of cards directly from the administrator's workplace in PMS with the synchronization of room statuses, guest names, and terms of stay to the hotel ACS running ILMS or HTLock.
You can use in full the reports on the security of the specified access control systems by rooms, guest names, and the period of their stay. This distinguishes the HSU's PMS integration options from other solutions on the market. The integration module implements a hybrid mode, when one PMS can use two systems at the same time on the same object: offline and online ones, running ILMS and HTLock.
Thus, hotels implementing an offline ILMS ACS can make a smooth transition to an online HTLock ACS without the need to update all the locks in the hotel at the same time. The PMS integration module supports two protocols: HSU (that is good for most PMS) and FIAS for integration with Fidelio / Opera solutions by Oracle Hospitality.