NATIONAL REPORT—Lodging Technology’s energy management system—Gem System Energy Management—has been deployed at two more hotels in Syracuse, NY, and Butte, MT. In Syracuse, the Sheraton Syracuse University hotel now has the system in all 236 guestrooms. The system is interfaced directly with the existing Siemens Apogee Building Automation System to further enhance savings. The Siemens system allowed the Sheraton to maintain setback temperature levels in non-rented rooms, but the hotel had no way to control temperature in rented, but unoccupied rooms. With the addition of the Gem System, the Siemens system can maintain setback temperatures anytime in any unoccupied room. Meanwhile, the Comfort Inn in Butte, MT, installed the Gem System in each one of its 145 rooms. The hotel has a mixture of GE and LG through-the-wall, packaged terminal air conditioning units that range in age from two to 20-plus years. Since the Gem System is compatible with any PTAC unit of any age, it was deployed in each room plus one of the hotel’s sales offices and one of its managers offices.
