VDA press releases & news

Digitally Perfect: Eccleston Square Hotel is a High-Tech Luxury Haven

21 February 2012
An article on HOSPA's website highlights the key role the VDA's Micromaster system played in helping to create 'Europe's most high-tech hotel'.:

"Eccleston Square Hotel has officially opened and is already garnering buzz for being Europe's most high-tech hotel. Set behind a striking late Georgian façade, this ingeniously renovated 39-bedroom hotel offers ground-breaking technology and brings to London something completely unique.

Systems Integrator, SM Contracts, has pulled out every stop to deliver the most advanced, state-of-theart bedroom interiors. The rooms are managed by VDA's Micromaster, an intelligent on-line system, which controls access to all of the guestrooms as well as the lighting, curtains and temperature within the rooms.

When guests reach their room, the Micromaster key card triggers a sequence of events to "welcome" them as they walk in for the first time: the curtains partially open and close, showing the guest that they are electronically operated, the "smart glass" bathroom wall turns opaque and the bathroom mirror TV turns on."

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Friday Funday: Back to the Future
Eccleston Square Hotel brings hi-tech to a historic building

14th January 2012
In its review of the recent Eccleston Square Hotel, Hospitality Style magazine marked out VDA's Micromaster Vitrum controllers as a significant factor in contributing to the overall guest experience:

"As with many hotels we've covered recently, though, the standout element of the design is the guest experience. For this hotel, the impact comes from the technology, particularly in the guest rooms. Even here, the priority is in keeping the standout features from shouting. "The slim profile and small shape of the touch-control pads allowed them to be installed in quite tight spaces, " says VDA, the company who manufactured the Micromaster system that allows everything from temperature to curtains to lighting to be programmed via touch-control pads."

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Intercontinental Buenos Aires - Nordelta
VDA lands in Argentina with the first ever IPTV implementation in the country

9th November 2011
With 140 luxurious guestrooms and 35 suites, its own private marina and an 18-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus, InterContinental Nordelta Hotel & Residences is a modern building complex located 30km north of Buenos Aires, in the Bahia Grande of Nordelta with an architectural balance between modernity and nature.

The project includes the installation of VDA's PowerTV HD in all hotel rooms with a selection of services that includes IPTV with EPG, VOD, MOD, room service with teleordering and the congress manager. The residences will also use PowerTV to share hotel information and offer a room service menu.

The installation is being implemented in partnership with Alcatel Lucent and FiberCorp. FiberCorp is the corporate division of Cablevision, the biggest cable TV operator in Argentina with more than 3 million subscribers. Digital channels are being provided directly from their head-end into the hotel facilities via a fiber-optic cable.

VDA's Gary Francies interview in Caterer & Hotelkeeper

7th October 2011
Gary expains why there's more to in-room entertainment than content in October's issue.

'Inside London's most hi-tech hotel'

14th September 2011
VDA's Micromaster featured on the lead article on Microsoft's MSN tech & gadget web site about the recently refurbished Eccleston Square Hotel in London:

"London's most hi-tech hotel - Eccleston Square Hotel - opened last month in leafy Belgravia. A hefty £6.5 million was spent kitting out the hotel with the latest gadgetry, which includes 46-inch 3D HD televisions in each of the hotel's 39 rooms, 'smart glass' in the bathrooms and control panels which enable guests to control everything from the comfort of their £12,000 electronic bed."

MSN article - VDA - Eccleston Square Hotel

Other information

New from VDA: Customisable Room Entry Proximity Panels

VDA presents its latest Vitrum offering, a panel for installation outside the room door, that can be graphically customised to feature the room number.
Integrating the usual transponder reader with a "Do Not Disturb" notice and the "Make Up Room" icon the fascia also features a space for a back-lit screen-printed room number that also creates a lighting accent in hallways. This space can also be used to position other graphics such as the hotel logo.

The unit is double the usual size with the associated benefits of increased visibility and legibility. The result is an aesthetically beautiful and highly function device that eliminates the need for further room identification wall furniture.

As a result of careful ergonomic studies, VDA has also developed a Braille version of the device in response to the growing interests of a diverse range of particular customer needs. The panel, available in a range of colours, is simple to install - as are all Vitrum products - and allows access to the room by simply passing the card key in front of the illuminated card reader.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Outdoor card reader (13,56MHz Mifare)
Illuminated button (central): Doorbell
Backlit by LED
Dimensions: L 190mm x W 125mm
Customisable by application of LED backlit silkscreened graphics (hotel logo, etc)
2 x RJ11 Connectors for in-room modbus free-topology link
Weight : 386 gr approx
2 x Box 503

Ararat Park Hyatt Moscow
The hottest hotel in Moscow confirms VDA as a partner to renovate rooms and suites

Overlooking the prestigious Neglinnaya Street with breathtaking views of the Bolshoi Theatre, the most fashionable hotel in the centre of Moscow has recently sealed an agreement with VDA for the renovation of its rooms.

The project involves the provision of VDA's sophistcated room environment control system, including the Vitrum Table-top Console, which will be customized according to Hyatt's specifications. Thanks to VDA's intelligent Micromaster System, in combination with the refined design of its glass Vitrum controllers, guests can enjoy state-of-the-art room control in exquisite comfort and style.

The hotel - one of the most famous hotels in the Hyatt chain - will see room renovations spread over two phases; the first for 103 guest rooms and the Park Suite beginning in August 2011 with completion in early 2012. The second phase sees the completion of the remaining scheduled block for a total of 216 rooms.

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Press & Magazine Articles

Hospitality Style - Rafayel June 2011

Hospitality Interiors Nov-Dec 2010

Commerical Interior Design Intelligent Bathrooms Dec 2010

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