Some of the security measures taken by hotels:
Key Card Locks:
While key card locks on guest rooms are quickly becoming the standard, some hotels still don't take advantage of the added safety provided to guests. Guest room locking systems these days include punch and magnetic key cards which have locks with flash memory and other productivity linked functions. The system can directly be linked with PMS.
Security Guards:
Most hotels do not have security guards while some employ them only at night. At Best Western Sterling Inn, we have our own staff of trained security guards working 24-hours every day to provide the best in safety and security for our guests
Defibrillation Units:
A life saving device in case of heart attacks, defibrillation units are starting to be deployed among police and emergency personnel across the nation.
Security Cameras:
Few Hotels have security cameras with digital technology, intelligent access central system, software interface with CCTV for matching undesirable visitors and criminals, interfacing with motion detectors, pocket lie detectors and spy cameras and use of biometric readers like hand key reader or face recognition system etc.
Fire Alarms:
While most hotels now have smoke detectors and fire alarms, Some hotels have a state of the art alarm system with smoke detectors in each guest room and throughout the entire complex that is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days per week that pinpoints the exact point of the alarm allowing our security staff to respond immediately to the area of any alarm condition.
Emergency Power:
Very few hotels have any provision for emergency power in case of an electrical outage while a few hotels provide limited emergency stand-by power to provide elevator service and some lighting. Some hotels has a 2-Megawatt stand-by generator that provides 100% emergency power that can provide uninterrupted guest service during a power outage.
Emergency Manual:
Hotels maintain an emergency manual, detailing operations in the event of a variety of emergencies.
Employee Photo ID:
For added security, some hotels have employees wearing a photo ID nametag allowing quick identification. In
-Room Safes:
In addition to the safety deposit boxes offered by most hotels at the front desks, Some hotels provide in-room guest safes capable of holding a lap-top computer that use the guest's own credit card as the key.
Guest elevators:
Elevators may also be interfaced with a room electronic locking system, where swiping the room card key takes the guest to the floor on which he is staying