proAV’s audio visual solution combined industry leading hardware and technology in order to create a unique guest experience.

Key features of proAV’s scheme include a background music system streaming audio through a Sonance speaker arrangement, an extensive digital signage solution distributing content throughout the restaurant, gym, reception and lift lobbies to three floors. A powerful IPTV infrastructure and Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network deliver high-performance wireless connectivity and digital content for effortless accessibility. 

A network of Philips MediaSuite display screens across all bedrooms and guest suites were equipped with a clear, customised UI and built-in Chromecast with one-touch access to the Google Play Store for easy engagement regardless of experience. 

proAV’s audio visual solution combined industry leading hardware and technology in order to create a unique guest experience.

Key features of proAV’s scheme include a background music system streaming audio through a Sonance speaker arrangement, an extensive digital signage solution distributing content throughout the restaurant, gym, reception and lift lobbies to three floors. A powerful IPTV infrastructure and Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network deliver high-performance wireless connectivity and digital content for effortless accessibility. 

A network of Philips MediaSuite display screens across all bedrooms and guest suites were equipped with a clear, customised UI and built-in Chromecast with one-touch access to the Google Play Store for easy engagement regardless of experience. 

Meeting rooms were equipped with an impressive integrated AV solution comprising Epson projection and 65” Philips displays for video collaboration, Crestron DigitalMedia switching and distribution with central control of video, audio and lighting via Crestron touch panels. Audio solutions include Shure wireless microphone kits, Sonance ceiling speakers, QSC loudspeakers and Ampetronic induction loops for hearing support. The meeting rooms are bookable and managed via Crestron room booking panels outside the rooms with ceiling mounted room availability signs to indicate use.   

Control of the AV equipment is managed centrally through a Crestron matrix distribution system and Crestron control processors with central audio processing via QSC DSP’s and amplifiers. 

Designed to project a visual feast to its guests, the hotel has an array of uniquely striking architectural and technological features, including a ‘Big Ben’ rocket sculpture, an LED fireplace with ingenious wooden installation and a central pillar in the restaurant featuring a vast pixelated LED grid ‘curtain’ that generates consistently changing moving images. 

The result

The avant-garde backdrop of the nhow London enabled us to deploy our experience of next-generation AV to stunning effect across all guest touchpoints in the hotel. The result for nhow’s first foray into the UK is a superb example of how an innovative audio visual scheme can challenge the perception of what can be achieved in a technology-led interior guest space. All bedrooms and suites have professional, vibrant displays with built-in access to engaging content and apps while the ubiquitous digital signage solution and powerful, yet very discrete background music system delivers impact, messaging, entertainment and atmosphere throughout. The hotel’s business space, meanwhile, offers everything the commercial traveller needs to deliver memorable presentation and conferencing events.

proAV is well established in the hospitality sector having transformed a number of prestigious hotel interiors with advanced AV schemes, smart meeting and presentation environments and memorable guest experiences. The Ned, The Beaumont Hotel, Sea Containers London and, more recently, the Biltmore Mayfair hotels have all experienced our dedicated approach to technology.