Between rooms, corridors, seminar halls, restaurants and wellness areas, a premium hotel needs home automation that is simple to operate, durable and interoperable. In Dakar, Saly and Abidjan, the recommended architecture relies on a wired KNX backbone for lighting/blinds and on Modbus/BACnet gateways for HVAC and metering. Radio extensions (Zigbee/Thread) are limited to hard-to-reach areas or quick additions, without affecting vital functions. The goal: a reusable, documented and easy-to-maintain site standard.
KNX handles lighting, DALI dimming, blinds/sunshades and local scenes (Night/Absent/Cleaning). Modbus or BACnet aggregate HVAC, energy meters and technical control panels. IP gateways feed data up to supervision and the hotel PMS. The logic: wired bus for reliability and continuity; radio for specific or temporary cases.
Create a "home automation" VLAN and an "administration" VLAN, power controllers and screens via PoE, plan a 15–20% margin on the budget. A UPS per IDF rack keeps the display and setpoints running during a grid→generator changeover. Essential scenes (security, emergency lighting) are local to survive a WAN outage.
Supervision correlates rooms, common areas and technical zones; the PMS encodes cards/mobiles and triggers "arrival/departure" in real time. Dashboards display consumption per wing, temperatures and alarms, helping inventory (lamps, sensors) and maintenance.
Harden consoles (certificates, MFA if possible), log configurations and journals, apply inter-VLAN ACLs. Deliver wiring diagrams, address tables, KNX group lists and intervention procedures. Keep minimum stock (power supplies, I/O modules, gateways) to reduce MTTR.
For a model that can be replicated across sites, consult our references in KNX home automation and supervision for hotels in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire, then contact us to lock in your brand standard.
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