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4Control is a managed automation layer for hospitality operators. We connect air-conditioning, locks, lighting and energy monitoring directly to your property management system — so every room runs itself, costs drop, and your guests barely notice the technology working.
A guest pulls up to your property. The path light outside their cabin is already on. They tap the lock — the entry light comes up to a warm welcome level. The air-con, which has been quietly idling all afternoon to save energy, has stepped into comfort mode in the last fifteen minutes. The room feels expected. That's the difference between a property guests remember fondly and one they merely tolerated.
Behind the scenes, the same intelligence is trimming HVAC runtime, watching for abnormal loads, and ensuring nothing is being wasted while no-one is in the room. Guests never see the savings happening. They just feel the comfort.
Hospitality operates 24/7 — but most properties have no real-time picture of what's running, where, and for whom. Air-con cools rooms with the balcony door open. Lights stay on between guests. HVAC failures are discovered only after a complaint. For independent operators, the cost of all that quiet waste is enormous.
Between check-out and the next arrival, rooms typically sit empty for hours — often with air-con and standby loads running as though someone were home. The waste compounds quietly across the entire property, every single day.
Without sensors, compressor strain, refrigerant loss and airflow drops only surface once a guest is uncomfortable. Reactive maintenance costs more — and damages reviews.
Without door and window sensing, compressors quietly run flat out trying to cool the outdoors. Nobody knows until the bill arrives — and by then the damage is months deep.
A guest plugging an electric vehicle into a standard room outlet can draw 50+ kWh in a single overnight stay — energy the room tariff was never priced to cover. Across many bookings it adds up, and without circuit-level monitoring nobody sees it happening.
We don't believe guests should download an app to turn on a light. The familiar wall switch is still the best interface ever designed for a hotel room. We keep what guests already know — and put the intelligence behind the wall, where it belongs.
Wall switches and panels — not phone apps — keep guest interactions exactly where expectations already are. Real tactile feedback. Zero training required.
Check-in, check-out, do-not-disturb, no-show — every event in your property management system fires a predefined scenario. Nobody has to remember to do anything.
No bespoke on-site software. No locked-in hardware controller. We deploy off-the-shelf, electrically certified devices — and manage the brains in the cloud.
The big chains have had this technology for years. We exist to bring the cost of implementation — and ongoing management — down to where small and mid-size operators can actually justify it.
Guests want a room that feels right the moment they walk in. Operators want a property that costs less to run while the lights are off. There's no reason those two things should be in tension — and with the right wiring, they aren't.
A guest's check-in is the trigger. From the moment your PMS confirms the booking, 4Control composes the room around them — and reverses everything the moment they leave.
Your existing property management system stays the source of truth. We listen — we don't replace.
A time-bound code is generated through TTLock and delivered however you already handle guest comms — SMS, email, kiosk.
15 minutes before check-in time, the air-con shifts from setback to comfort. No energy wasted overnight; no cold room on arrival.
The smart lock event fires the entry scene: entry light on, climate confirmed, an unmistakeable sense the room was expecting them.
Shelly EM modules track real-time draw at the circuit level. Abnormal loads — including EVs being charged from a standard outlet — alert your team within minutes, not at the next bill cycle.
Reed switches on doors and windows talk directly to the air-con. The moment a balcony slider goes open, the compressor stops working against the outdoors.
Lights off. Climate to setback. Lock credential revoked. The next preparation cycle is already queued. The cleaner walks into a room that has been waiting for them, not running unsupervised for six hours.
We don't make you choose a single vendor's locked ecosystem. Each integration is a proven, electrically certified product chosen for reliability, price and openness.
PMS-integrated, battery-free smart remote replacing existing AC remotes. RCM certified, 240V wall-mounted, 65 mA standby. Works with any make of split-system air-con.
Time-bound digital credentials issued from your PMS workflow. No keys to cut, no cards to magnetise, no late-night front-desk lockouts.
Circuit-level power monitoring that watches what's actually being drawn — not just what was billed at the end of the month.
Our own range of presence detectors and light switches — lower cost than incumbent options, every bit as well-built and properly certified for Australian wiring.
The whole system listens to events you already generate: bookings, check-ins, check-outs, do-not-disturb, no-shows. Predefined scenarios trigger automatically — exactly when they're expected, without staff intervention. No bespoke middleware. No on-site PC quietly aging in a back-office cupboard.
These are the kinds of numbers operators see once a managed automation layer is doing its job — quietly, in the background, while guests are simply enjoying their stay. Your specifics will depend on your property, your climate and your starting point.
Industry-accepted ranges for hospitality smart-room deployments. Your numbers will depend on tariff, climate, baseline behaviour and which integrations you choose — these are figures that make the conversation worth starting.
The hotel chains have had room automation for the better part of a decade. They could afford the integrators, the bespoke software, the seven-figure rollouts. Independent hotels, motels, and caravan parks with cabins have been priced out — until the underlying hardware got cheap, the protocols got open, and the cloud got reliable.
4Control exists in that gap. We've taken the same architectural ideas the chains use and rebuilt them on commodity, certified hardware managed centrally. The result is a system you can justify on a 30-room property, that pays for itself in energy savings, and that you don't need an IT department to keep running.
Get a property assessmentTell us a little about your site and we'll come back within one business day with a tailored estimate — including projected energy savings based on your current usage and a sensible deployment plan.