SAMHANDEL – An purchasing association for hotels, inns, and restaurants in Denmark.

• Hotels, inns, and restaurants have many suppliers in their daily operations, and to ensure proper profitability, they need to achieve discounts on all their purchases. This was once a very large task, which SAMHANDEL now handles on behalf of the purchasing organization’s nearly 400 members and 80 suppliers.
• SoftControl provides energy-saving control systems for many sectors. “We’ve often faced discount demands from our hotel customers, and since we frequently sell through electricians, we’ve lost many bids in the past,” says Sales Manager Klaus Kattenhøj. With SAMHANDEL, you are guaranteed a minimum discount, ensuring that you don’t get cheated by suppliers. “This is a principle we uphold, as we thrive on customers returning for more.”
  
  
• It requires a slightly different way of setting up our offers/invoices, as we prefer to collaborate with the hotel’s house electrician, who knows the existing electrical installations and will be servicing the system afterward. SAMHANDEL’s Director Torben Serritslev proved to be the man with the solutions, and we found a way that works for us and guarantees members a secure discount: [Link to video with Samhandel]. Also, because we both know that one of the members’ biggest headaches, after the pandemic, is the explosive increase in energy prices.

SoftControl, as a competent energy savings partner

• Hotels face a fundamental energy dilemma. Until now, they have kept the rooms fully heated regardless of whether they were occupied.
  
  
• SoftControl integrates with the hotel’s booking system (ROVERD, Picasso, Spektra, Octopus, and we are constantly adding new systems), so the room is at the desired temperature when the guest opens the door for the first time and is cooled down between guests.

Heat savings in a typical hotel or inn

• With night cooling, the average hotel achieves a savings of approximately 20% by lowering the temperature by 4 degrees from daytime to cooling night temperatures.
  
  
• With 60% occupancy, and where "occupancy" control lowers the temperature by 7 degrees, an additional average savings of 10% is achieved.
  
  
• All of this is managed by sensors and smart algorithms, ensuring that guests do not experience the room as being cooled between stays.
  
  
• If the guest or cleaning staff opens a window, the radiators automatically turn off, resulting in further savings that are not included in the calculation.

Bring down your CO2 footprint and, and, and...

Many hotels are also working towards various types of certifications, including the rapidly growing GreenKey certification, where SoftControl can assist with:

• Reducing SCOPE 1+2 CO2 emissions (electricity, heating) and water consumption (including assisting with measurements and actions for the certification application)
• Systems and displays that show current savings and what guests/staff can do to further reduce energy consumption
• Monitoring of running toilets
• SoftControl is an expert in solar panels, electric vehicle chargers, and various types of heat pumps and surplus energy management

A hotel or in with built-in intelligens

It is often a problem with smoking guests who have difficulty adjusting to the fact that smoking is no longer allowed in rooms, which costs hotels a lot of money as customers demand a different room, more frequent cleaning, and in the worst case, renovation. A smoking detection system notifies the staff in the lobby to go up, politely knock on the door, and ask the guests to extinguish any lit cigarette.

Welcomme

In addition to a lot of boring automation, which is mainly about saving energy, etc., it's really about allowing the staff at a hotel, inn, or restaurant to do what they're good at – namely, welcoming and serving their guests. It starts with a hotel room heated upon arrival, where neither the guest nor the hotel needs to think about turning off the heat after their stay. CleverHouse takes care of all of that for them.