Infrastructure & Device Forum
The Infrastructure & Device Forum addresses infrastructure, device, and hardware issues, including wired and wireless networking, guest-room entertainment, telephony, building automation systems, and other applications where the bulk of the cost relates to physical devices or networking.
Below you will find a summary of workgroups that are currently active or in maintenance mode, and that operate within the Infrastructure & Device Forum. It also includes the Infrastructure Resource Team, which is not a workgroup but rather a standing team conducting primary research on infrastructure technologies that are potentially applicable to many workgroups. This table provides a high-level summary for each workgroup, as well as a link for more information, the workgroup's current status, its admission policy for new members, and its voting members and ibusiness advisors.
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Workgroup Details & Participants
Cellular CoverageAddressing cellular phone coverage issues for hotels, by creating a specification for an IP connected device with the appropriate RF interface for both licensed cellular and WiFi services. More Info: Wiki Status: Maintenance Admission Policy: This workgroup admits new members based on a majority vote of a quorum of voting members. Current members:
Device Controls IntegrationSimplified low-level communications among guest-room devices (electrical controls, consumer electronics, HVAC, minibars, safes, door locks, etc.) by standardizing key aspects of inter-device messaging. More info: Wiki Status: Maintenance Admission Policy: This workgroup admits new members based on a majority vote of a quorum of voting members. Current members:
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Entertainment Device ControlCreating an interoperable solution for remote-controls with hospitality functionality, built on HDMI'S CEC standard. More info: Wiki Status: Maintenance Admission Policy: This workgroup admits new members based on a majority vote of a quorum of voting members. Current members:
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Infrastructure Resource TeamThis group develops best practices for the deployment of new and existing infrastructure technologies within hospitality as well as the ongoing evaluation of those technologies. Their ultimate goals are to reduce the cost of infrastructure, to provide greater reliability for interfaces to in-room devices, to enable guests to easily connect their own devices, and to provide infrastructure guidelines to support future hotel applications. More info: Wiki Status: Active (Permanent Coordinating Body) Admission Policy: This team admits new members upon application. Voting members:
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Intelligent Guest RoomTaking advantage of remote addressability of guest-room devices to proactively monitor their health and react appropriately before the guest discovers a problem. More Info: Wiki Status: Active (Chartered) Admission Policy: This workgroup admits new members based on a majority vote of a quorum of voting members. Current members:
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Fiber to the RoomCreating a series of best practice documents and webinars to describe how to effectively deliver and deploy a fiber network to and within a hotel. The documents/webinars will cover an introduction to fiber and PON technology and design guides for a new builds and retrofits. More information: Wiki Status: Active (Chartered) Admission Policy: This workgroup admits new members based on a majority vote of a quorum of voting members. Current members:
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Mobile Device Identification and AuthenticationIdentify a set of best practices for registering and authenticating a device once (for example, within a hotel, or group of hotels, such as a brand) so that the device and it's user can be recognized automatically. This would employ methods and standards that currently exist or are under development and would allow a user to obtain services, such as access to a hotel network or application. It could also enable a hotel network or application to recognize that a certain device and user have entered the premises. More information: Wiki Status: Active (Chartered) Admission Policy: TBA Current Members:
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