Specifications

CONTENTS
ROOM STATUS CONDITIONS
The system will indicate the status of each guest or meeting room when requested.
See Room Status Review. The five possible conditions are:
• AVAILABLE – Ready to check in.
• OCCUPIED – Guest is checked in.
• NEEDS CLEANING – Condition after check out or morning update for all occu-
pied rooms.
• NEEDS MAINTENANCE – Temporary condition for rooms requiring some re-
pair or maintenance.
• HOLD (LATE CHECK OUT) – Indicates a guest requires a late check out so
hotel staff will delay cleaning.
ROOM STATUS REVIEW
The DCS Hotel / Motel system provides three methods to review the five room
status conditions.
1. An administrator’s display keyset can be used to view the status of any indi-
vidual room and scroll through the list of all other rooms to view their status.
2. One or more 64 Button Modules can be used to view the status of all rooms for
any of the five room conditions (Example: press the Room Status View key for
“AVAILABLE” and all the buttons corresponding to available rooms will light
red).
3. Printed reports can be obtained to review the room status conditions for all
rooms. See Printed Reports–Room Status, earlier in this document.
ROOM STATUS UPDATE
The system operation provides two methods to update the status of each guest or
meeting room.
AUTOMATIC
The hotel manager informs the system technician of the preprogrammed time he
wants all rooms to automatically change from “Occupied” to “Needs Cleaning” on a
daily basis. In addition each room is automatically changed to “Needs Cleaning”
upon check out.
MANUAL
Hotel personnel, such as maids, maintenance men or administrators, can dial a
code from the guest/meeting room telephone to manually update the room status
as required.
The manual room status update codes are:
0= Room needs to be cleaned.
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