The money side

An empty room heating itself for six hours.

Every operator knows it happens and nobody can police it. Here is what it costs, on your numbers rather than an industry average.


Empty, and everything off. Radar confirms no movement and no still, breathing person — then the infrared emitter shuts the air conditioning and television down.
14:02 · Room 118
Guest leaves for the day. Air conditioning left at 18 °C. Television left on standby-defeating loop.
14:02 – 14:07
Radar confirms the room is genuinely empty — no movement, and no still, breathing person. A PIR would have given up the moment somebody sat still to read.
14:07
Five minutes clear. The sensor's infrared emitter fires the same codes as the room's own remote controls — air conditioning off, television off.
19:40
Door opens, radar picks the guest up immediately, air conditioning restored to their setting. They never know it was off.
Presence panel showing: in the room — detected; distance — 208 cm; movement — detected; still person — detected.
Why radar, not a motion sensor. "Still person — detected" is the line that matters. A PIR loses someone the moment they sit still; this doesn't, so the room only ever switches off when it is genuinely empty.
Controls panel showing TV power last used 11 minutes ago, and IR learn mode off.
The infrared side. The same box that measures the room also drives it.

The bit that pays for itself

An empty room heating itself for six hours.

Every operator knows it happens and nobody can police it. Key-card power switches were the old answer, and guests defeat them with a loyalty card in about four seconds.

Pulse has a built-in infrared emitter and learner. Point your existing remote at it once, and it can drive that unit forever after — the air conditioning, the television, anything with an infrared remote. No new air-conditioning system, no rewiring, no per-room electrician visit.

Empty for five minutes, everything off. Someone walks in, everything back. The delay is yours to set, and the rule only ever runs when the radar is certain the room is empty — which is exactly why a radar and not a motion detector.

It also learns the codes you already use, so a mixed estate of three different air-conditioning brands is not a problem.


What the status quo costs

Put your own numbers in. We haven't guessed for you.

Every figure below is your own arithmetic on your own estate — no industry averages, no survey nobody can find. Change anything you disagree with.

Annual cost of not knowing
£0
— per room, per year
Energy burnt heating and cooling empty rooms
£0
Recovered by the five-minute empty-room rule. This is the line that usually pays for the hardware on its own.
Revenue lost to rooms out of service
£0
Nights you couldn't sell after an incident — before you count the refunds to neighbouring rooms.
Damp and water repairs
£0
Early warning doesn't remove this, but catching it in week three rather than month six changes the size of the job.
Your own figure to add
Reviews
One "we couldn't sleep, the room next door had a party" review sits on your listing for years. We've left it out of the total because it's real and we can't price it honestly.

Assumptions you can check: energy = rooms × occupancy × wasted hours × load in kW × price per kWh × 365. Lost revenue = incidents × nights out of service × nightly rate. Nothing is discounted, marked up or annualised in a way that flatters us. All figures in £ GBP, dates dd/mm/yyyy.


Availability

Coming soon.

Pulse is in final testing ahead of its first hundred-room rollout. Leave your details and we'll be in touch when units are available — with a live dashboard, a walk through exactly what is and isn't captured, and a rollout costed against the numbers you put in above.