“Speed Dating Sessions”
Check below to find out exactly what they are and why you can’t miss them!
🤜 What They Are 🤛
SPEED-DATING are 2 ’60 minute’ Sessions (one per day) where:
- you pick a company exhibiting and set a meeting via the VRWS App and the Company rep explains the solution they offer
- then you ask your question, and engage with the rep.
- You repeat the process with any of the companies exhibiting for the following 60 minutes.
🤷♀️ Why 2 Speed Dating Sessions 🤷♂️
How many times did you get to the end of an event thinking you missed out on some of the solutions on the tables, just because you didn’t have time to find out more about all of them?
Or you made a list of all the things you wanted to check, to maximise your time there…only to end up talking with a handful of people simply because the conversation was too good to cut it down?
Often at conferences the encounters you do are left to chance and serendipity; yes, it very often works out amazingly well, you meet incredible people, but couldn’t you really make the most of your time there if only you could even fit in something more?
Speed-Dating Sessions are meant to give you just that! An incredible opportunity to maximise your return on the investment to join the Vacation Rental World Summit and one more way to ensure you get back home with even more tangibles to put into action immediately.
🙋♀️ What You Can Do 🙋♂️
Now that you know what Speed Dating are, you can’t miss out!
Below is a list of each Company exhibiting at VRWS, with a little description of what they do.
Shortlist the companies of your choice and prepare yourself for the sessions.
And…there will be a specific section within the VRWS App we’ll release prior to the event, so you can keep everything with you well organised on your mobile at all times!
Acquisition
Launched in 2016, GuestReady’s mission is to help landlords save time and turn their investments into a profitable source of income by using technology to bring the tradition of hospitality to the short and medium let market. We’re a globally leading short and medium let property manager.
Speed Dating at Booth # 30
👉 Check it out here: https://www.guestready.com
Advisors
AJL Atelier is a global advisory team that empowers short-term rental businesses to reach their goals with strategic guidance, actionable insights, and industry expertise.
We provide a broad spectrum of knowledge ranging from macro-level industry insights to micro-level expertise of the detailed day-to-day operations as well as deep knowledge on the technology landscape. In addition, we are ideally equipped to identify the best markets and acquisition targets within the industry.
Our core customers are Property Managers & Operators; Technology &Service Providers as well as Investors; VC´s & Financial Institutions.
Our services include (but are not limited to): Go-To-Market & STR Market Entry Strategy; Market Analysis & Expansion Plan; Competitive Analysis; Industry SaaS sales guidance; Strategic/Business Review & Operational Deep Dive; STR Guest/Host Journey Workshops; Technology/Product Reviews; Valuation Assessment; Exit Preparation & M&A Advisory services.
We tailor make our services to every customer.
Speed Dating at Booth # 36
👉 Check it out here: https://ajlatelier.com/
Automation and Technology
Guest, team and property automation solutions.
The world’s best property automation software. Streamline your operations and boost revenue with powerful technology for vacation rentals and hotels.
Speed Dating at Booth #15
👉 Check it out here: https://operto.com
Duve is a guest management platform like no other.
Increase guest happiness, generate additional revenues, and cut down operational costs – with just a few clicks.
Increase guest happiness, generate additional revenues, and cut down operational costs – with just a few clicks.
Duve’s holistic platform provides hospitality experts with a unified guest management solution, covering the entire digital guest journey from contactless check-in, through a branded guest app, an omnichannel communication hub, and an eCommerce/upselling platform offering the right service to the right guest at the right time.
Regardless of the property you manage, with Duve you can offer guests a personalized experience, tailored to their needs, in their own language, available for them 24/7 at their fingertips.
Duve currently operates in over 60 countries, and supports over 120 integration partners, across all major OTA’s, PMS’s, PSP’s, Digital Key providers and 3rd-party vendors.
Speed Dating at Booth #4
👉 Check it out here: https://duve.com
Enso Connect is a dynamic guest experience platform for vacation rentals and boutique hotels that seamlessly plugs into your property management software and helps personalize and monetize interactions all along the guest journey.
From upsells, guidebooks, smart lock-connected contactless check-in, white-labeled guest verification, AI-driven multi-channel messaging, and more, Enso Connect navigates guests through an effortless digital journey.
With “If this then that” capabilities, Enso Connect is the Zapier of hospitality. We connect all the tools you already love and use, allowing you to better manage the operational complexity of a scaling hospitality business, while increasing profit per guest.
Speed Dating at Booth #12
👉 Check it out here: https://ensoconnect.com/
Dharma is a hospitality software technology company that offers an Operations Platform that integrates with your PMS, leveraging reservations and property data to optimize operations. Its key features include:
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Issues Management System for tracking and resolving maintenance and customer service incidents.
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Work Order System that facilitates the submission, tracking, and assignment of maintenance work orders.
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Knowledge Base that provides up-to-date information about the property, processes, and procedures.
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Centralized information repository that empowers both new and existing employees, facilitating their training, onboarding, and ongoing self-sufficiency
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Unified Inbox that consolidates messages from various platforms such as Airbnb, WhatsApp, and email, which streamlines your communication.
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AI assistant, both for staff and guests, connected to the existing Knowledge Base.
The Operations Platform enhances efficiency, improves service quality, and helps provide exceptional guest experiences in the competitive hospitality industry.
Speed Dating at Booth #28
👉 Check it out here: https://dharma-grp.com/
Yaago is an innovative hospitality technology solution that allows property managers and hoteliers to reinvent the whole guest experience while maximizing operational efficiency and connecting their preferred services.
The Yaago guest experience is a unique journey that simplifies the lives of all stakeholders in the industry: timely shared information with explanatory videos for travelers, the ability to offer additional services from the welcome booklet for property managers, and comprehensive preparation information for teams to ensure the satisfaction of all.
To automate processes, Yaago seamlessly integrates with the industry’s most popular PMS, smart lock systems, and even online deposit systems, enabling centralized and streamlined management of vacation rentals and hotel properties.
By using Yaago, you can increase profits and efficiency through centralized and automated team management, personalized upselling opportunities to enhance each stay, and delivering a truly unique experience to every traveler.
Speed Dating at Booth #29
👉 Check it out here: https://www.yaago.com/
Cleaning Platforms – Property Care – Operations
TurnoverBnB is an online platform that helps vacation property management companies with cleaning turnovers.
TurnoverBnB’s two distinct services are:
• Automate Cleanings Schedule cleaning, checklists, documentation, inventory and pay cleaners
• Global Marketplace of Cleaners Connect and get bids from experienced cleaners in one or more geographic areas
Available in English, Spanish, French & Portuguese
Speed Dating Table: 35
👉 Check it out here: https://turnoverbnb.com
Breezeway’s property care and operations platform helps coordinate, communicate, and verify detailed work, and deliver the best service experience to clients.
With tools for intelligent task scheduling, quality assurance, real-time work coordination, guest messaging, supplies management, owner reporting, and more, Breezeway helps thousands of short-term rental managers and hospitality operators increase their operational efficiency, eliminate hours of manual work, and boost service revenue.
Founded by Jeremy Gall, an industry leader with deep experience in the vacation rental space (previous founder of FlipKey, acquired by TripAdvisor), Breezeway is elevating the experience at every property.
Speed Dating Table: 59
👉 Check it out here: https://www.breezeway.io
Data Analysis
As the world’s leading provider of vacation rental data and analytics, AirDNA tracks the daily performance of over 10 million listings on Airbnb and Vrbo in 150,000 global markets.
Through a combination of scraped and source data on over 900,000 listings, AirDNA has revolutionised the short-term rental industry by accurately showcasing the daily booking activity of vacation rental properties. Property managers, investors, and hosts all rely on AirDNA’s vacation rental insights to optimise their pricing, benchmark their performance, and outperform the competition.
Through a combination of scraped and source data on over 900,000 listings, AirDNA has revolutionised the short-term rental industry by accurately showcasing the daily booking activity of vacation rental properties. Property managers, investors, and hosts all rely on AirDNA’s vacation rental insights to optimise their pricing, benchmark their performance, and outperform the competition.
Speed Dating at Booth #25
👉 Check it out here:https://www.airdna.co
Transparent track 35 million Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com & TripAdvisor listings to empower scaling property managers with market insights to optimize rate, occupancy & growth. Our PRO & BI data dashboards users report up to 25% growth in revenue.
Speed Dating at Booth #21
👉 Check it out here:https://seetransparent.com/en/
Key Data is the most trusted data and insights platform for professional lodging operators. Key Data’s ProData product is designed to save lodging teams hours of aggregating data sources by seamlessly providing one trusted place for real-time, data-driven decision making thanks to direct integrations with reservation systems. Over 2,300 professional lodging teams around the globe are using Key Data’s expanding portfolio of business intelligence and comparative data products to save time, increase revenue & beat their competition.
Speed Dating at booth #10
👉 Check it out here: https://www.keydatadashboard.com
Guest Experience & Welcome App
Touch Stay digital guest welcome books replace printed guest information manuals with a hygienic, eco-friendly tool loved by hosts and guests.
The result?
1. You spend less time managing guests
2. Guests ask fewer questions, arrive more prepared and leave happier
3. Better reviews, more repeat bookings and recommendations
86% of users say they’ve halved the time they spend managing guests since introducing Touch Stay guidebook – a 21st-century welcome book that’s easy for you to create and intuitive for guests to use.
Give guests everything they need to know before, during and after their stay:
practical accommodation information
inspirational destination content
personal recommendations
house rules
add-ons and upsells
Brand your guidebook with your colours, logo and fonts, to present slick, on-brand guest communications every time.
Share with guests via a link sent from Touch Stay’s messaging platform ‘Memo’, or copy and paste that into your existing guest communications.
Love updating paper docs or answering the same old annoying guest questions? Nah, us neither! Add your guests to the millions around the world having happier stays with Touch Stay at their fingertips.
Speed Dating at Booth #3
👉 Check it out here: https://touchstay.com
Hostfully’s award-winning software helps vacation rental companies provide 5-star hospitality. With property management and guest experience software for short-term rentals, Hostfully helps property managers automate, streamline, and grow their businesses. Hostfully’s Property Management Platform is the most open-source software in the industry and includes dozens of integrations, pipeline management, upselling tools, owner reporting, a centralized calendar, and a platform for widespread channel distribution. Further, Hostfully’s Guidebooks Platform also allows managers to supply travelers with mission-critical property information and local recommendations, with a custom welcome message featuring their unique brands.
Speed Dating at Booth #19
👉 Check it out here: https://www.hostfully.com
Enso Connect is a dynamic guest experience platform for vacation rentals and boutique hotels that seamlessly plugs into your property management software and helps personalize and monetize interactions all along the guest journey.
From upsells, guidebooks, smart lock-connected contactless check-in, white-labeled guest verification, AI-driven multi-channel messaging, and more, Enso Connect navigates guests through an effortless digital journey.
With “If this then that” capabilities, Enso Connect is the Zapier of hospitality. We connect all the tools you already love and use, allowing you to better manage the operational complexity of a scaling hospitality business, while increasing profit per guest.
Speed Dating at Booth #12
👉 Check it out here: https://ensoconnect.com/
Guest Screening & Insurance
SUPERHOG combines intelligent guest screening with automatic damage protection and is delivered as a SaaS solution that can be integrated seamlessly within the pre- or post-booking journey.
Speed Dating Table: 17
👉 Check it out here: https://superhog.com
Distribution
Google offers an important distribution channel.
Speed Dating at Booth #21
👉 Check it out here: https://www.google.com/travel/
The largest selection of hotels, homes, and vacation rentals with over 2,5 Million accommodations in over 85,000 destinations.
Speed Dating at Booth #2
👉 Check it out here:https://booking.com
Speed Dating at Booth #7
👉 Check it out here:https://vrbo.com
Speed Dating at Booth #38
👉 Check it out here:https://airbnb.com
Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals that allows the guests to find your perfect accommodation and book for the lowest price.
They work with all the major booking portals and local specialists to offer their visitors the greatest variety of vacation rentals. They compare millions of accommodations from more than 2,000 providers so that the guest can find the ideal vacation rental quickly and easily.
It pays to compare: The same accommodation can cost up to 55% less in the same period. Their image recognition technology detects whether a vacation rental is listed on different websites and always shows the lowest price.
They work with all the major booking portals and local specialists to offer their visitors the greatest variety of vacation rentals. They compare millions of accommodations from more than 2,000 providers so that the guest can find the ideal vacation rental quickly and easily.
It pays to compare: The same accommodation can cost up to 55% less in the same period. Their image recognition technology detects whether a vacation rental is listed on different websites and always shows the lowest price.
Speed Dating Booth #5
👉 Check it out here: https://www.holidu.com
HomeToGo has the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals and is the fastest-growing vacation rental booking channel in the world, offering property managers a direct booking experience. If you’re not on HomeToGo, join them to expand your reach to millions of new guests. Fast payout, direct guest communication and fast integration – that’s how HomeToGo helps property managers maximize bookings and diversify their revenue streams.
📈Founded in 2014, HomeToGo employs more than 380 people and manages 23 local apps & websites across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Tripping.com, CASAMUNDO and Wimdu.
Speed Dating at Booth #39
👉 Check it out here: https://www.hometogo.com
If you’re looking to expand your reach to more than 160 million travellers that are part of the Marriott Bonvoy travel programme make sure you get a seat at Marriott’s Speed Dating Table to join Homes & Villas by Marriott International’s strong network
Speed Dating at Booth #26
👉 Check it out here: https://homes-and-villas.marriott.com
Traum was founded in Bremen in 2001 and has been part of OYO Hotels & Homes since 2019, one of the world’s largest providers of hotels, holiday rentals and residences. Around 45 million holidaymakers use Traum’s vacation rental portal (https://www.traum-ferienwohnungen.de) every year and make them the 1st choice for German holidaymakers.
Traum by OYO offers exclusive conditions to all participants of the Vacation Rental World Summit. Check it out here: https://rent.traum.com/vrws/
Speed Dating at Booth #37
👉 Check it out here: https://www.traum-ferienwohnungen.de
Founded in London in 2012, TravelStaytion is one of the world’s top performing holiday rental providers, offering a curated selection of sought-after accommodation options and remarkable stay experiences. TravelStaytion is a unique platform for premium, quality-assured stays, always aiming to meet the highest standards in service and consistency of experience. Supported by a leading, cutting-edge, and advanced technology system, TravelStaytion is on a mission to upgrade the holiday rental experience for travellers and property managers alike – setting the standard for service and quality. TravelStaytion showcases more than 90,000 professionally managed rental properties in over 700 destinations worldwide.
Speed Dating at Booth #35
👉 Check it out here: www.travelstaytion.com
Luggage Storage
LUGGit is a luggage pick-up, storage and delivery service.
Guests always ask for early check-in or late check-out due to luggage storage issues. By partnering with LUGGit (for free), they will collect your guest’s luggage where they are, store it for as long as needed, and deliver it back to the apartment or airport, depending on the situation.
You automatize and solve all luggage communications while offering your guests a premium experience.
LUGGit operates in 6 European cities, has already more than 50,000 bags carried and a 4.9 out of 5 rating in more than 1,500 verified reviews.
Booth #33
👉 Check it out here: https://luggit.app/
PMS – Channel Managers
Avantio allows you to use Business Intelligence tools, manage your time effectively and provide the best guest experience with powerful vacation rental management software that makes you diversify your distribution strategy with a Channel Manager connected to 50+ different global and local channels.
Speed Dating at Booth #1
👉 Check it out here: https://www.avantio.com
Guesty is an end-to-end property management platform providing professional hosts, owners, independent hotels and property management companies with two core solutions to automate and streamline the complex operational needs of managing flexible inventory: Guesty For Hosts and Guesty For Pros. With these offerings, users can manage listings from multiple online travel agencies including Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and more, and utilize the company’s guest-centric tools including: Unified Inbox, Automation Tools, Staff Management Solutions, Reporting Capabilities, and more.
Speed Dating at Booth #8
👉 Check it out here: https://www.guesty.com
Hostfully’s award-winning software helps vacation rental companies provide 5-star hospitality. With property management and guest experience software for short-term rentals, Hostfully helps property managers automate, streamline, and grow their businesses. Hostfully’s Property Management Platform is the most open-source software in the industry and includes dozens of integrations, pipeline management, upselling tools, owner reporting, a centralized calendar, and a platform for widespread channel distribution. Further, Hostfully’s Guidebooks Platform also allows managers to supply travelers with mission-critical property information and local recommendations, with a custom welcome message featuring their unique brands.
Speed Dating at Booth #19
👉 Check it out here: https://www.hostfully.com
Icnea is an all-in-one PMS + Channel Manager for vacational rentals property managers, with all the OTAs and integrations that you need, such as smartlocks or dynamic pricing solutions, as well as apps for your users, owners and guests, and many more features to boost your vacation rental business!
Speed Dating at Booth #6
👉 Check it out here: https://icnea.com
Lodgify is an all-in-one solution that simplifies short-term rental management. Individual hosts and property managers can create a bookable website, efficiently handle reservations and instantly synchronize calendars, property data and rates with external portals
Speed Dating at Booth #17
👉 Check it out here: Lodgify
Octorate is the easy-to-use All-in-One Hospitality Software that enables you to manage, improve and automate the processes related to your accommodation in an intuitive way.
Online property exposure improvement, effective price strategy, income management, bureaucratic and fiscal duties, guest communication management before, during, and after their stay.
Octorate takes care of everything.
Speed Dating at Booth #11
👉 Check it out here: https://octorate.com/
From managing your reservations to ensuring a perfect guests/host communication and planning housekeeping, RentalReady packs a suite of features to manage a wide range of activities while maintaining quality control. On top, it also includes payment processing, pricing algorithm and channel management. Last but not least, the origins of RentalReady separate it from any other PMS: first developed by and for GuestReady, it truly is a “by Property Managers, for Property Managers” software, fully designed from a user needs’ perspective.
Speed Dating at Booth #30
👉 Check it out here: https://www.rentalready.io
Smily (formerly BookingSync) helps vacation rental owners and managers to increase their revenue by 40% in as little as 30 minutes.
At Smily we believe that property owners and managers should not risk their entire business on a single marketplace. This is why we created Smily, your partner to list your properties on 1000+ marketplaces including Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia. We also centralize guest communication, collect and secure payments, and increase your revenue.
In September 2021, with a team across 17 countries, Smily has been nominated by Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia, as the world-leading connectivity platform from the entire hospitality industry.
Smily is really a partner for an easy, safe and more profitable vacation rental business.
Speed Dating at Booth #24
👉 Check it out here: https://smily.com/
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when trying to make all the technologies available for vacation rental professionals work well together?
BookingStudio is a property management system that is a joy to use. Our solution contains everything for your vacation rentals business with excellent tools and expert advice. Put together the tech stack you need leveraging the many existing integrations with the best tools and services in the market.
Discover why Scandinavian property managers of all sizes prefer BookingStudio. Focus on what makes your vacation rentals business great with joy and confidence in a solution and a team that works for you.
Speed Dating Table: 29
👉 Check it out here: https://www.bookingstudio.com
Revenue Management
Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing) is a complete revenue management solution for short-term rental managers and owners to get, grow, and keep revenue. Beyond easy-to-use platform includes a dynamic, demand-driven pricing tool with extensive market data that pairs with OTA distribution and a best-in-class booking engine.
Beyond has helped thousands of property managers and property owners like Island Realty, Royal American Beach Getaways, and Coquet Cottages, get the most out of their listings. To date, they have supported over 340,000 properties in more than 7,500 cities worldwide.
Founded in 2013, Beyond is headquartered in San Francisco.
Speed Dating at Booth #22
👉 Check it out here: beyondpricing.com
PriceLabs is a revenue management solution for the vacation and short-term rental industry that combines human control with best-in-class algorithm, market data, and customizability to maximize revenue. This helps property managers increase revenues and save hours in the process.
The team is the unique sauce. They have several years of experience in revenue management, travel distribution, technology, and analytics. They have put all that experience into making a leading revenue management solution for the vacation and short-term rental industry. Founded in 2014, PriceLabs has priced over 150,000 listings in 100+ countries globally.
Speed Dating at Booth #9
👉 Check it out here: PriceLabs
Wheelhouse is a best-in-class revenue management software for the short-term, vacation rental & mid-length rental markets. Our platform won DARM’s “Innovation of the Year”. Wheelhouse offers a comprehensive suite of tools including Dynamic Pricing, Market Intel, CompSet Intel, Booking Analysis & more. Recently, Wheelhouse launched Hybrid Pricing, enabling complete control over your revenue management strategy.
Speed Dating at Booth #20
👉 Check it out here:Wheelhouse
Security Deposits
💰 Swikly is the specialist of security deposits.
Swikly protect your rentals, secure your reservations and simplify your bookings, with an online security deposit request.
Swikly is designed for short and medium-term rentals, as well as any other rental property, so you can protect your rentals without the constraints of checks, cash, transfers or credit card prints on Eftpos terminals.
Speed Dating at Booth #34
👉 Check it out here: https://www.swikly.com
Smart Locks – Keyboxes – Keyless Entries – Property Technology
Homeit is a technological Portuguese company dedicated to develop smart access control solutions, since 2016.
Homeit main goal is providing customers, businesses or individuals, advanced smart access control solutions that enable them to increase their business, automate recurring tasks and enhance comfort and safety on a daily basis.
That’s why Homeit invited Nuki to join the VRWS this year. Nuki is an Austrian company and European market leader for electronic retrofit Smart Locks. As of today, their smart access solutions have been sold over 200,000 times and they are preferred partner of leading companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb. With their Nuki Smart Lock, Nuki makes key handovers smart, simple and digital.
With over 3.000 customers and more than 6 million door openings Homeit is present in 14 European countries, in South America (Brazil) and Africa (Mozambique).
Speed Dating at Booth #13
👉 Check it out here:https://homeit.io/
👉 Check it out here:https://nuki.io
Minut: the all-in-one solution that cares for your rooms, homes, guests, and community.
The Minut sensor monitors noise, occupancy, temperature, motion and cigarette smoke, helping you prevent parties and enhance guest experience while being 100% privacy-safe.
With powerful automation and integrations, Minut empowers property and hotel managers to grow their businesses while keeping operations lean.
Speed Dating at Booth #12
👉 Check it out here: https://www.minut.com/
Speed Dating at Booth #16
👉 Check it out here: https://roomonitor.com/
For nearly 20 years SALTO has been synonymous with innovative solutions, including stand-alone, cloud-based and mobile applications, that set new standards in security, manageability, flexibility and design that bring real-world benefits to virtually any door and building type. Across a broad range of industries and applications, SALTO is widely recognised as a global market leader in smart electronic access control solutions.
Speed Dating Booth #32
👉 Check it out here: https://saltosystems.com/en/
Smart home products that do more with less. No keys, no hassle, no fuss. Igloohome lets you do more with less. You can focus on your day-to-day activities while our smart locks keep the right ones in and wrong ones out of your home.
Enjoy the convenience of smart security today.
Speed Dating Table: 50
👉 Check it out here: https://www.igloohome.co
Tedee is the producer of Europe’s smallest, strongest, and most innovative smart lock. By combining the latest IT technology with classical mechanics, Tedee offers a smart digital access system that works perfectly in a short-term rental.
Tedee smart lock is an electronic device that can be installed on the inside of a door, no matter if a residential building or a flat, in minutes – without screws, drilling, or running cables. With the adapter, you don’t even have to replace the existing lock cylinder.
The mobile app and web portal are tools that successfully replace traditional keys – allowing to grant access to guests, employees, cleaning staff, and others – remotely, from anywhere. Access permissions can be easily managed and given to guests for a specific period.
The API enables the property management platform to integrate access control for Tedee smart lock directly into the booking processes. This integration allows hosts to remotely manage access permissions to their properties. It results in significant time and money savings: no need for handling time-consuming and costly key handovers.
Speed Dating at Booth #27
👉 Check it out here: https://tedee.com/it/home-7/
Vikey is a complete hardware and software solution for guest reception allowing you to save time and money. The services offered range from automating all stages of check-in, remotely and with apps opening doors and gates via smart locks, to energy saving and noise control thanks to home automation.
Speed Dating at Booth #18
👉 Check it out here: https://vikey.it/en/home-page/