ALPHA brings high-tech modular living into modern co-living communities and smart hostels. We construct individual capsule pod controls, touchless locker systems, and shared-use resource schedulers.
Modular Pod & Co-Space Infrastructure
Modular Capsule Pod Control Panels
Private sleeping pods equipped with compact touch interfaces for localized airflow, reading lamps, dimmable panels, and digital earplug modes.
Self-Checkin & Biometric Locker Keys
Seamless app-based entry codes and fingerprint check-in access points. Protects occupant security without requiring physical metal keys.
Shared Amenities Scheduling Systems
In-app booking matrices for common laundry equipment, shared kitchen ranges, workspaces, and private media preview rooms.
Group Atmosphere Scene Triggers
Automated schedule adjustments to transition shared lounge lighting and background sound systems from study focus to social lounge profiles.
The Problem
Hostels and large-scale rental housing operations face critical hurdles as utility rates and occupancy numbers escalate:
- ✓High Costs: Increasing rooms and buildings lead to skyrocketing operational expenses in large rental properties.
- ✓Manual Inefficiencies: Fixed appliance schedules for heavy duty appliances like geysers, AC’s and manual control of pumps and lights result in inefficiencies and high costs.
- ✓Operational overhead: The repetitive nature of day-to-day manual tasks builds up operational inefficiency over time.
Energy Monitoring Overhead
This is yet another problem faced at large rental properties. As the number of rooms and buildings increase, the operational expenses also skyrocket. In many rental buildings for working people and students, there are fixed operation times for heavy duty appliances. For example, water heater may be operated between 7 am and 10 am everyday.
In most buildings, ACs are switched off during the day since most rooms are vacant during that time. Operating the water pumps, corridor lights, parking area lights, etc... requires manual effort at present. Due to the repetitive nature of these jobs, employees are not always punctual and not attentive enough in their responsibilities. This can again translate into unnecessary power and water expenses and inefficient operations.
Hostel Management With Alpha
Alpha provides a fully integrated and customizable smart hostel management solution that can be tailored to meet the needs of hostels of different sizes. It connects appliances in your hostel complex with a suite of Wi-Fi enabled smart devices and allows you to control the entire hostel premises from a centralized web portal.
Our smart devices can easily fit inside a switchboard and can be connected to appliances of various power ratings, allowing you to practically control any appliance in your building with a few clicks on our web portal.
Smart Control Through Alpha Enterprise Dashboard
All Alpha smart devices work in tandem with the Alpha Enterprise web portal. After installing the devices in your hostel complex, you can login to this web portal to monitor and control all the switches connected to Alpha devices. This means, without physically being in a room or a building, you can have the complete overview of all the appliances connected by Alpha devices in the web portal at any time of the day.
The web portal provides you complete view of the total number of connected appliance switches, the number of switches which are powered on and off along with the detailed power consumption stats. Its other salient features include automation features to automate operations on various combinations of appliances and as well as employee management features to efficiently delegate building operation tasks to employees.
View Power Consumption In Real Time
By connecting our smart devices to your appliances, it becomes possible to view the power consumption of all connected appliances through our web portal. It allows you to see the power consumption in real time as they're being used.
It also shows you peak consumption areas and the times during the day when maximum power is consumed, thus helps you identify ways to reduce power consumption and maximize overall energy savings.
Turn Off Unused Appliances With Smart Key-Tags
By connecting an Alpha smart device to the central switch in every room, you get direct access to the central power point in the room.
During day-time, when majority of hostel rooms are empty, it is possible to switch off the key-tags in the rooms from Alpha web portal without even entering into the room. This ensures that even if occupants left appliances switched on in the room, they can be turned off by a building operator himself.
Cut Down Power Expenses on ACs and Geysers
In our web portal, you can create schedules to automatically turn off appliances at a preset time. This will help solve the problem of appliances operating when there is no human presence.
Let's say, the AC's are switched on at 7 pm everyday. But if the room is occupied only by 9pm, the power gets wasted for 2 hours. Using schedules in Alpha web portal, the AC's can be set to switch off automatically a few minutes after 7pm. This way, when the occupant enters the room later at night, he or she can manually turn it on if required. This way, without creating an inconvenience for the occupant, you have an effective way to avoid wastage of power.
Group & Automate Daily Repetitive Tasks
There are many tasks in the daily schedule of a hostel administration that are both time and labor intensive. Switching on lights in different corridors, verandahs, building entrances and exits in the evening and then switching them off in the morning require close attention.
All these activities can be automated together on the web portal. With the routines feature, an 'evening task' routine can be created to automate all these tasks at once, so that all the lights in the appropriate locations will turn on / off at the specified time on their own in the preset manner.
Reduce Dependency On Manual Labor
You no longer have to rely on manual labor to operate your appliances. If you need to switch on the common geyser between 7 and 10 in the morning, you can set up a schedule for it in the web portal.
The scheduling features will automatically turn on and off the heavy duty appliances without any manual interference, guaranteeing punctuality and attentiveness.
Manage Employee Roles On The Web Portal
Different employee roles with appropriate permissions can be created in the web portal. A main administrator can assign these employee roles and delegate various responsibilities to each of them.
For example, if there are 3 buildings in the hostel complex, each building's operation can be delegated to one or more employees who'll have permission to create and review all the automated tasks in that building's premises. They can also view the dynamic power consumption stats and analysis of that building in order to optimize device operation timings to save maximum power.
Deploy scalable co-living automation grids
Our modular pod control systems are pre-assembled and pre-configured in our labs to guarantee simple drop-in deployment with low onsite construction schedules.