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The rise and rise of cheap hotels has bred a new variant of smart hotel where the door and the room can be controlled by a mobile phone application. With no room service, selectable coloured interior lighting, no fridge, and no door key Mi-Pad in New Zealand may be an indication of what hotels will be like in the future. With a smartphone app to control the front door, lighting, order room service, room temperature, and message other guests the hotel truly offers self service. If this catches on, how many other hotels will switch to automated service to save money on staff wages?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday November 18 2018, @03:23AM (6 children)
What do you do if you don't have a "smart" phone because you aren't a drooling consumertard?
This smells of some hotel chain that is getting kickbacks from cell phone salesturds.
EVERYTHING has do be done via a brand new shiny latest and greatest smartphone! Eating and breathing now requires the purchase of the latest smart/i phone! Taking a dump requires a smartphone! Don't forget to download our FREE news app/spyware for instant up to the second alerts and advertising!
I remember the good old days when switching on a light didn't automatically log that detail in to a database where it was aggregated for advertising optimization purposes.
Oh, and epic hack in 3...2...1...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @03:42AM
Exactly, epic hack for sure. If that brand of IOTTS* lock hasn't been hacked yet, it will be soon.
* Internet Of Things That Suck
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @03:45AM (2 children)
With any luck, these places will be cracked (hacked) hard, and very publicly (maybe some movie star has their room broken into?) This might slow the take-rate for this concept.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:04AM
They can probably afford a proper hotel...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @06:01AM
Not to worry: Alexa will be around to witness the crime. [sophos.com]
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday November 18 2018, @05:36AM
Or in other words, free housing for those with the requisite skill sets.
Hey, you get rid of all the staff, who is left to figure out that you're not a robot, and that there always seems to be at least 1 room in maintenance mode? They're not getting rid of room service. Just automating it. So that room in maintenance will have a strange fondness for beef stroganoff.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @02:11AM
I'm reminded of an episode of X-Files from season 11. It was god damn weird. Most of you will quickly know what is with the title.
The.X-Files.S11E07.Rm9sbG93ZXJz.HDTV.x264-KILLERS.mkv