Hotels · Seamill, West Kilbride

The Glen Rosa Suite, Seamill Hydro: RTI control, media and lighting for a hotel suite on the Clyde coast

Seamill Hydro’s owners wanted their flagship suite to have the media, lighting and comfort a guest expects, run from a branded touch panel anyone can use. Lairds designed and installed the systems in the Glen Rosa Suite on RTI control, and the project was later showcased on RTI’s global website.

Control

RTI, with room touch panels and a locked-down iPad

The building

Seamill Hydro sits on the Ayrshire coast at Seamill, near West Kilbride, looking across the Firth of Clyde to Arran. The family-owned Victorian hotel has been transformed over the past decade for weddings and family holidays, and the owners wanted technology that added to the experience without compromising the look and feel of the rooms.

The Glen Rosa Suite was formed from three existing bedrooms and three bathrooms: a 35 square metre master bedroom, a 20.5 square metre lounge, a 12.5 square metre bathroom and a hallway, with large bay windows on to the coast and the hills of Arran. Media throughout, controlled by a guest who has never seen the system before, was the brief.

What we designed

The lounge has a wall-mounted thin-bezel large screen with surround sound, blind and mood-lighting control, telephony, guest Wi-Fi and scheduled actions. The master bedroom has its own surround sound system and large screen, with lighting and blind control, bar and coffee facilities, Wi-Fi and telephony. The bathroom has an Aquavision television with built-in speakers, mood lighting and blind control. A games console and DVD player are part of the system and can be reached from any room.

The control system had to carry the hotel’s branding, be easy enough for a guest to operate on their own, and survive constant use and the addition of new devices over time. That led the owners to RTI. Guests use room-based touch panels or a locked-down iPad, with an interface designed around the hotel’s own signage. RTI later featured the suite on its global website.

Lairds also designed and installed the Firth Pavilion at the same hotel. See more of our commercial work.

The suite

What went in

• RTI control with room touch panels and a locked-down iPad
• Large thin-bezel screens with surround sound in the lounge and master bedroom
• Aquavision bathroom television with built-in speakers
• Lighting and blind control, scheduled actions
• Games console and DVD player available in every room
• Telephony and guest Wi-Fi

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