When a guest enters a room, curtains automatically open, music plays, the TV activates and climate controls bring the room to a preset temperature.
The Autonomous Smart RoomĪria technicians ran primary and redundant fiberoptic networks to each of the hotel's 4004 guest rooms, allowing for extensive in-room automation. Here is a close look at some of Aria's biggest technological advances and the issues they raise. And while the technology brings many high-tech luxuries to visitors-omnipresent wireless connectivity, 3D monitors and smart touchscreen interfaces-it also crosses into potential Big Brother territory ( even by Vegas standards).
16 last year, marketing itself as a high-tech alternative to Vegas's more traditional resorts, with a data and communication system driven by 283 individual telecom rooms and a broadband antennae network covering 140 million square feet. Its mix of gadgets and cutting-edge networks blends centralized convenience with personalized luxury (and even a squeeze of energy-saving sophistication) to offer a glimpse of what all hotels could look like in the future. The Aria Resort and Casino, within MGM's new City Center complex on the Las Vegas Strip, may be the most technologically advanced hotel ever built.
