It’s Time to Evolve Your Brand for EV Travelers
With the rapid increase in production and consumer adoption of electric vehicles, hotels face new challenges to provide an integrated experience for their guests or risk getting left behind. EV-driving guests are looking to the hospitality industry to provide EV charging destinations along their travel routes or for extended stays. They gravitate toward simple, integrated charger booking with their room reservations.
Hotel Business Challenges
Competing for Brand Innovation
- Hotels risk losing customers without evolving their business to meet guest demands by providing a brand-integrated EV charging experience for travelers.
- Our complete EV charging solutions help businesses create the changes that enable them to adapt.
Designing a Wholistic Strategy
- Building a scalable and comprehensive business strategy that addresses the entire guest experience is essential to successfully adopting EV charging.
- Our team will guide your business to build the strategy and standard needed to roll out a program across your entire enterprise.
Integrating the Guest Experience
- EV driver guests will build loyalty to the brands that can offer EV charger reservations along with their room booking to alleviate range anxiety.
- We help hotels connect their EV chargers to the guest management, CRM, and app systems to create a seamless experience for your guests and team.
Addressing EV Driver Demand
- Offering new services such as EV charging valets for guests brings opportunities to elevate brand perception and customer retention but requires changes to standard business processes.
- Our team can help build the plan and integrations you need to make the necessary and significant changes to your operations.
Building a Scalable Charging Network
- Managing EV chargers and guest data across a single site, region, nation, or the globe can pose significant hurdles to smooth and measurable operations and maintenance.
- Our Interface software platform allows hotel chains to integrate all locations into a single screen with analytics and automatons to simplify management requirements.
It’s More than Nuts and Bolts
- Managing business energy use, costs, and EV charger controls requires significant networking and software capabilities, and the electrical infrastructure design must be expandable to accommodate future demand.
- We provide more than just installation services. We offer innovative software and connectivity with future expandability to bring greater business value.
Let’s build a scalable, integrated strategy together.
Future Energy collaborates with businesses and brands at every scale to build the strategies, standards, and programs they need. Solve the complexities of technology integrations across entire business networks with consistent, measurable, and exceptional execution.
Let Us Guide Your EV Readiness Journey
Future Energy’s EV Solutions take your hotel business through the entire EV readiness journey with our 3-phase approach to get your hotel brand EV-integrated.
Ready to Elevate Your Hospitality Brand?
Discover the opportunities of a strategically designed EV integrated brand experience for your guests with our team.
Our team of EV consultants will help identify the business risks, strategy, and plan to solve the business challenges from EV charging that affect every level of the guest experience.
- Business operations and process changes
- Identifying brand EV charging requirements
- Designing the guest experience
- Reducing EV charger installation costs
- Reducing EV charger installation costs
Get Your Connected Technology Business Plan
Calculate & Identify Business Needs
Pinpointing equipment needs can be challenging amidst uncertainties of expected EV driver volume. We collaborate with site staff, gathering operational data to precisely calculate their equipment requirements, ensuring they acquire the right types and quantities essential for their success including port count.
Learn About the Business Impacts
As hotels embrace EV charging technology, they often overlook the operational, branding, and management hurdles it may entail. Our role is to enlighten clients about these challenges and inform them about the necessary software, strategies, and requirements to navigate this transformative journey effectively.
Optimizing EV Charging Infrastructure
Incorporating EV charging infrastructure into your hotel is a strategic move in response to the rising demand from electric vehicle travelers. We work closely with clients to craft site plans that ensure the ideal positioning of EV charging equipment, aligning with operational needs, cutting construction expenses, fulfilling technical prerequisites, and more for infrastructure needs.
Streamlining EV Charger Installation
Many contractors lack the expertise needed for proper EV charging equipment installation. Our team utilizes equipment specifications to ascertain the precise power requirements for seamless operation. We evaluate factors like kW demand, electrical panel expansion, power delivery materials, and more to ensure efficient EV charger setup in your hotel.
Unlocking Financial Support for EV Charging
Investing in EV charging projects can be substantial. We specialize in uncovering often elusive financial assistance programs offered by utility companies and governments. Our expertise lies in matching project specifications with applicable programs, maximizing your chances of securing funding for your EV charging initiatives in your hotel.
Enhancing Utility Service for Smart Energy
Transitioning to smart energy solutions often necessitates robust utility service upgrades. While such requests are rare for most businesses, we pinpoint the essential power requirements for optimal operation post-installation. This includes potential upgrades to industrial-grade power like 480v 3-phase systems, ensuring seamless integration of your new integrated equipment in your hotel.
We help hotel brands get their EV chargers installed and integrated with oversight from our experienced team of EV experts who navigate the construction complexities to reduce costs and get it done right the first time.
- Meet electrical and construction requirements
- Proper EV charger installation and activation
- Perform utility service upgrades to use level 3 EV chargers
- Future-proof design considerations
- Qualified for financial program assistance
Future Energy’s EV Charger Installation Service
Tailored Project Standards
Our custom Future Energy Design Standard ensures quality and aligns with each client’s unique requirements, encompassing business processes, branding, data integration, and management needs.
Future-Ready Design
Our site design and engineering services cater to EV charging equipment specifications, providing sufficient power and flexibility for future expansions and minimizing unnecessary construction and installation costs.
Quality Assurance in Construction & Installation
We safeguard fleet business interests by overseeing equipment procurement, construction, installation, and activation, ensuring a seamless project execution.
Streamlined Utility Service Upgrades
Our utility specialists handle engineered drawings, riser diagrams, permits, and load letters, facilitating necessary service upgrades, including 480v 3-phase power for Level 3 EV charging.
Comprehensive Construction Services
We deliver construction and electrical services to adapt your facility, systems, and property for the successful installation and operation of EV charging equipment.
Efficient Equipment Installation and Activation
We professionally install, network, and activate all new EV charging equipment, ensuring seamless project completion and operational readiness.
Project Equipment
Qualified Manufacturers
We are partnered with the leading manufacturers charging the next generation of mobility. Equipment packages include level 2 and 3 EV chargers, accessories and cable management, product warranties, and cloud network plans.
Integrated EV Charging Solutions
All EV chargers seamlessly integrate with the Interface and IoT platform, optimizing operations by allowing connection to other fleet management systems and lowering operating costs charges.
After EV chargers are installed and operational, we provide the services and software needed to keep them running smoothly to sustain the guest brand experience.
- Monitor EV charger status and health
- Manage EV charger pricing and energy use
- Quickly repair or replace EV chargers when needed
- Proactive equipment maintenance inspections
- Controlling utility electricity costs
The Connected Platform for Smarter Business
Future Energy’s Interface cloud software platform offers a unified dashboard to monitor and optimize energy, equipment, and processes. Streamlined data analytics, management, and automation enhance energy efficiency, EV charging control, vehicle management, and smart device commands, elevating decision-making and hotel business processes. Interface provides alerts, notifications, and seamless integration with various business systems, centralizing data and controls.
Interface Solutions
Focus On Your Business
Managing energy use and equipment is an impractical task for business staff due to the investment of time and effort it requires. Interface automates the complex equipment controls, alerts, and data access needed to control energy and perform processes, allowing clients to focus on running their business, not their connected equipment.
Connect Other Data & Control Systems
Integrations with Interface are limitless. It can connect to virtually any business system, such as an ERP, BIP, BMS, POS, inventory management, fleet management, and CRM to keep our client’s equipment and energy running smoothly. The connection of Interface and other business data brings more possibilities with process streamlining and reporting.
Get Insights & Data Visualization
Business intelligence is a critical element to sustaining a competitive business by identifying new opportunities. Interface provides live data visualization, analytics, reporting, and alerts for far more than just energy. Clients can access equipment usage, errors, maintenance information, EV charging revenue and costs, and more across all their properties within a single screen.
Improved Business Decision-Making
Without access to data, decision-making for businesses can become a risk. Interface give our clients deep insights into energy and operational performance with real-time data analytics across all their locations to make better decisions on how to improve processes and when to take action. Afterall, you can’t manage what you don’t measure
Manage a Single or Multiple Properties
Interface is built to support any scale business from a single location to thousands of sites across the globe. Clients gain the ability to utilize platform features by site regions and groups to easily visualize and control their energy, equipment, and other operations all the way down to the front desk.
Make Maintenance Proactive
Maintenance and support tools help your team identify needs, both live and proactively, and access warranty data. Our client success team is there for you too to help you quickly coordinate maintenance solutions and get you back to operational.
Expert Technical Support
With an Interface subscription, clients have access to live Client Success experts to setup and support equipment, automations, and alerts. They serve as an extension of your team, helping manage the new complexities within your business.
Keep Your Network Independent
We connect on-site intelligent equipment to the Interface cloud platform by installing an independent network on each client property to keep business networks isolated, secure and manageable for business IT staff.
EV Charging Management
Improve charging control and reduce energy costs.
Interface’s EV Charging Management system provides our client’s businesses the controls and automation to limit EV charger energy output and their property’s total energy use to reduce energy costs. Interface also provides the charger use, cost, profit, status, and other data to make public charging more profitable, see proactive maintenance needs, and coordinate charging use for inventory vehicle and fleet management processes. Our expert team will set up EV chargers and automations during installation so our clients can utilize the full value of Interface when their service begins.
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Software with a Human Touch
Behind every Interface software subscription is a dedicated client success representative that monitors your data to provide proactive maintenance support, automation development, utility service negotiations and other cost-saving strategies.
Proactive On-Site System Inspections
Ensure optimal equipment performance with our professional multi-point inspections. Our Inspect service team conducts regular site inspections of your installed EV charging systems, meticulously examining over a hundred key points. We assess wear-and-tear, corrosion, seal and wire integrity, electrical components, and power delivery. You’ll receive an inspection report detailing any maintenance or repair needs, backed by priority customer support for hardware and maintenance issues between inspections.
Expert Solutions at Your Fingertips
Our team possesses in-depth knowledge of all aspects of EV charging systems, including equipment, accessories, warranties, software, networks, and the Interface platform. This expertise enables us to swiftly resolve system issues, allowing your team to focus on their core responsibilities.
Optimize Equipment Uptime
Maintaining operational equipment is vital for business functions and meeting financial assistance program requirements. We provide 24/7 monitoring of your system and equipment through the Interface software. Coupled with proactive site inspections, we promptly address issues to ensure compliance with business and financial program prerequisites.
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