High Speed Internet Access (HSIA): Mobile Broadband

This year at HITEC, an annual conference for hospitality industry professionals, the guest room of the future (dubbed Guestroom 2010) was featured. The idea was to showcase imminent or new guest room technologies.

Showcased technology:

• Browser based technology enabling guests to access their hotel reservation details, personal travel itinerary and hotel information from their mobile phone.

• Technology to unlock the room door with your mobile phone

• A body suspension system to replace a standard mattress, using a system of linked rods and small plastic-domed caps that shape themselves to your body.

• An alarm clock that rolls away from you when you hit the snooze button so that you have to get out of bed and find it when it goes off again.

• A coffeemaker that displays the local weather forecast.

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