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Siemens Reservation and energy management CM110602en
Building Technologies Energy management with FOS 09/30/2008
4 Energy management with FOS
This section describes how the functions of the energy and reservation management
system can be operated from the HOTEL SOLUTION user interface. This applies to
energy management systems combined with a front-office system which exchanges
reservation data with the Siemens HOTEL SOLUTION system.
To enable the energy management component to operate in conjunction with a
front-office system, the energy_with_fos flag must be set to TRUE via the menu
HOTEL SOLUTION user interface (in the System | Configuration Parameters...
menu).
4.1 Energy groups
The energy groups are based on the design of the heating system and are defined
when the database is generated. Each guest room is assigned to one of these groups
when the hotel system is initialized, but the assignments can be changed later. In this
way, different groups are set up, with rooms of equal weighting in terms of energy.
When hotel rooms are assigned to guests, the energy management system starts by
allocating all the rooms of one energy group first. When all rooms of that group have
been allocated, the rooms of the next group are allocated, and so on.
The staff using the reservation management system need to know which energy group
to start with, when allocating rooms. For this reason, an order of priority is defined by
assigning a priority number to each energy group.
4.2 Room priority
Each energy group contains a certain number of rooms, which are of equal significance
in energy terms. Here, too, for the purposes of reservation management, staff need to
know the order in which the rooms themselves should be allocated.
Every room is therefore assigned a priority number to indicate the order in which each
room within an energy group should be allocated.
With these two sets of priorities, the reservation management system can suggest the
exact order in which the guest rooms should be allocated from the energy-efficiency
viewpoint.
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