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Are you looking to improve the TV consumption experience in your hotel? In this service, making it easier for the guest to enjoy their own content in a fast, comfortable and safe way is key. The new Chromecast WiFi solutions for hotels respond to this need. Next, we tell you everything you need to know about this technology. 

The current ones hyperconnected guests, who enjoy their favorite content during their stay at the hotel, need exceptional WiFi quality, as well as making it easy for them to watch their favorite series with the click of a button from their mobile or tablet. 

This process goes through avoiding them having to enter their own passwords or connect their own Chromecast devices to the televisions. That is where new technological solutions come into the scene that streamline and improve this service.

 

What is a WiFi Chromecast for hotels?

It is the Chromecast solution created specifically for the hospitality market. It has a special configuration at the network level so that the user can share their content and enjoy on-demand television just by accessing the WiFi network. 

 

WiFi Chromecast for Cerium Hotels

Enhance the TV viewing experience. Make sure your guests can enjoy their own content in a fast, comfortable and secure way. 
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  • On a technical levelThrough a Chromecast WiFi solution for hotels, each device is preconfigured to connect to the network, and is only visible to the guests in that room.
  • A level of user experience, the guest, through a simple validation system (QR or Login), links their mobile or tablet to the device in their room, launches their favorite video application on the television connected with Chromecast (exactly the same as if they were at home) and starts to enjoy your favorite content.

In summary, In order to offer this service, a professional approach is necessary to provide security and functionality to this service in a hotel establishment. The Chromecast was born for private consumption but today there are solutions on the market and technology integrators dedicated to the deployment of this type of high value services for the hotelier.

Why incorporate a content streaming solution in your hotel?

The entertainment offer in the hotel room is an element that is increasingly in demand and valued by guests. Having the necessary technology so that guests can comfortably enjoy their favorite content platform is already a differentiating factor. 

Currently, hotel guests have three ways to watch streaming content on the TV in the room: through applications on the television itself, by trying to install their own chromecast device or by direct transmission or casting from a device staff.

In the first option, the user must use the remote control and type his name and username, typing without a keyboard, and then make sure that his credentials are deleted when he leaves. 

The second option is complex. In the vast majority of cases, the WiFi network is limited or very unstable and does not allow us to configure our own Chromecast. 

The third is the most comfortable and secure for the user and only requires a small technological integration by specialized companies. 

Chromecast Wi-Fi or IPTV?

All the IPTV for hotels They are a solution with a greater functional scope, which not only facilitates the agile sharing of content from devices, the main functionality of Chromecasts, but also allows greater interaction with the guest and a superior experience. 

 

 

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Specifically, from IPTV the hotelier can improve his communication and the guest can obtain useful information about the hotel and its services, which can help improve direct sales and build customer loyalty. 

Keep learning: What benefits do IPTV solutions for hotels provide?

In any case, when choosing between an IPTV or Chromecast, it is important to study different criteria such as the size of my hotel, to study the economic outlay of each technological solution; the complexity of the installation, how is my network infrastructure or what I really want to offer my guests. 

What four aspects should I study when choosing between one option or another?

1. Functional scope

All the IPTV the following advantages at this point:

Interaction and communication

    • They allow you to make purchases, reservations and orders for any service you wish to offer your guests.
    • Complete communication panel, with extensive menus and useful information on hotel services. Guests can search for and book services such as spa treatments, order room service, reserve a table in the restaurant or sports facility or request a later check-out time, and much more. 

Room management or operational management

Through IPTV, room service can indicate that the room is ready, connect this information with the PMS and speed up processes such as room reservation

2. Marketing and loyalty

    • With an IPTV television it is possible to generate surveys during the guest's stay to improve their experience, encourage reviews or, depending on their interaction with the promoted content and services, extract interesting statistics on the profile of visitors and their preferences or needs.
    • For their part, Chromecasts are more limited at a functional level, although they are increasingly closer to IPTV, with simple message or video promotion channels connected to a management portal, personalized welcome messages for the guest or certain information to level of customer interaction with the content.
    • Keep in mind that in addition to facilitating streaming, little by little they are evolving and will allow offering more functionalities in the future. 

3. Installation complexity

    • La IPTV It may require running a specific cable to connect this service to the network and transmit data or intercommunicate with our PMS, loyalty software and other technological solutions. In this sense, it is recommended that, in order to undertake these projects, the hotel already has fiber optic FTTR (Fiber to the room).

It may interest you: Difference between conventional wiring and fiber optics in hotels

    • In the case of Chromecast, the installation is much simpler, it is not necessary for the hotel to have a specific network wiring to be able to incorporate this service. 

4 Price

IPTV systems have a cost that can double in many cases that of a Chromecast WiFi system. As we have commented, the Chromecasts are going to evolve towards interaction and the improvement of corporate communication, so for hotelsis independent or small chains are the most competitive option.

Benefits of the hotel Chromecast in the guest experience

    1. Access convenience: sIt is only necessary to make a pairing, via QR code or password and you will always be able to enjoy its benefits without any interruption of service during the stay.
    2. Contents at a single click: The great advantage is that, through private WiFi, the user only has to click a button to share their content on demand. 
    3. Chromecast security: Since it works with a private WiFi network in the room, no other room can connect to the content platforms and no one can sabotage the chromecast and view the contents. 
    4. New functionalities at the communication level: lhe hotel technology integrators have developed new functionalities such as the possibility of having a welcome screen with personalized messages or the generation of interfaces with images, videos, and some promotional content. 

How to install a WiFi Chromecast

Technology integration companies such as Cerium they create the necessary infrastructure to be able to offer this high-value service to the guest and hotelier. 

    • Step 1. You will only need a cast controller with a dedicated server to manage all the hotel's Chromecast devices. Obviously, this hardware is configured and secured to ensure data protection and avoid interaction between different Chromecast devices in different rooms. 
    • Step 2. A Chromecast dongle is installed in each HDMI port in the rooms. These devices incorporate certain anti-tamper accessories.
    • Step 3:. All that is left is for the guest to connect to the hotel's WiFi network, and pair their device with the Chromecast in their room, to start enjoying this exclusive service.

Conclusion, IPTVs are more interesting in large hotel establishments that seek to offer maximum interaction and have more resources to offer the best at a technological level.

Chromecast WiFi for hotels is the perfect option for independent hotels and small chains that are looking for quick differentiation in a service as basic as television.  

Cerium, an integrator specializing in hotels, has extensive experience implementing both technological solutions. Talk later?