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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: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday November 18 2018, @03:41AM (3 children)
How would vision impaired people use this shit? Or are they supposed to just kill themselves? Oh, right spying microphone to the rescue!
"save money on staff wages?" All that cost and then some will go to maintenance and upgrading their equipment every year.
All because a $2 light switch from Home Depot that lasts for 30 years just to turn on a damn light is something only a Luddite caveman would use.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:19AM (1 child)
Voice activated commands.
Sightless people would be most welcome in this kind of hotel as they use less electricity for lights.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:31AM
They would also be more comfortable as they would not have to see all the blue LEDs.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:43PM
This is Queenstown, one of the most expensive towns in the country.
The people who do the actual hospitality work cannot afford to live there, or anywhere close, and because the employers won't pay them what the market dictates they are worth, there is a massive worker shortage.
Queenstown is the perfect place to try this out. Assuming they can get anyone to clean it, which is not a sure bet.