User Manual

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2 Hotel room management system
2.1 System topology
Hotel room management system consists of:
• One or more management stations at the reception desk (workstation reception)
with access to all required guest and hotel room information as well as an
available front office system,
• An operating station (workstation technical), to operate and monitor the system
and e.g. to create access cards,
• A database serves to record and save all system data and
• Room controllers for the individual rooms and connected to the server.
RCU001
PC3: workstation
reception
TCP/IP
FOS
PC2: Workstation technical
(operation & monitorin)
KNX
RCU150
RCU...
PC1: Database server
IP /
KNX
IP
RS232*
Encoder2
...
...
Front-Office System
Siemens Hotel Solution System
Hotel rooms
Fidelio or
Hogatex / Bosch
- Database
- DGU driver
- User Interface
- Key Client
RS232*
Encoder1
RS232 (for Fidelio)
Building
automation
TCP/IP
Building automation
and control system
Room bus RS485
Room operator unit
card holder
Card reader
+
* Chip card encoder is also available with optional TCP/IP interface.
2.2 Scalable system
The system can be flexibly connected to any size hotel. Any off-the-shelf PC with
Windows
®
XP operating system and Sybase
®
SQL Anywhere database software
can serve as the database server. This allows, for example, smaller hotels, to
combine workstation technical and the server on one PC. Conversely, larger hotels
can expand the system as needed, for example, by adding additional workstations
at the reception desk or by integrating a building automation and control system
such as DESIGO.
Example: Topology