Tag: blackout

How Smart Thermostats in Hotels Can Save Energy—for Everyone

By Andrew Cao, Copeland Dec 4, 2025 Building Controls

Updated: Dec 4, 2025

Hotel guest rooms are unoccupied around 60% of the time, even when rented. Heating or cooling to 100% occupancy, 100% of the time, equals approximately 40% energy waste. To lessen this waste, the hospitality industry is embracing occupancy-sensing smart thermostats, which allow the building management system to automatically adjust the temperature of unoccupied rooms. The […]

Is Your Facility Blackout-Ready? Ensuring Safety and Continuity During Power Failures

By Rizwan Ahmad, Dialight Apr 12, 2024 Emergency Preparedness

Updated: Apr 12, 2024

Between extreme weather events, an aging power grid, and the transition to renewable energy, power interruptions are becoming a much greater risk in all parts of the country. Many will remember the highly publicized 2013 Super Bowl blackout when the power shut down the biggest game in American sports for 34 minutes, plunging the New […]