56|CUADERNOS Energy efficiency in the hotel sector with LED technology The hotel industry, like all other economic sectors, is required to improve energy efficiency and provide its customers with a quality of service increased. This trend is marked by European legislation, but above all for A greater awareness among hotel owners who see an opportunity to achieve significant cost savings in an- nual electricity bill, at the same time they can modernize its facilities and add value. The advantages of LED lTamps over other technologies are overwhelming. his movement would not And all the good work to do in all this, be possible without the in- it enables the image of a hotel as an novative lighting solutions ’efficient hotel’. that manufacturers like But how do you accomplish this? Havells-Sylvania develop Analysing the main factors involved and day by day and which they offer to the that can be summarized as: type of hotel the actual lighting aspects, such as the tone of light to choose and its colour reproduction, and the types of auxiliary equipment to which you have to connect. On the other hand, we must analyse the cost of maintenance, lifetime and energy consumption. In this sense, we can see that the advantages of LED lamps over other technologies are overwhelming. Up to today in many hotels they have installed halogens in receptions and 24 hours use zones. Currently this imple- mentation is a mistake because LED technology can provide energy savings of up to 85%, plus a maintenance savings and improve the quality of lighting. Let’s see a real example. market. Starting with the basic premise that the goal of any luminaire manufacturer is to enlighten, to Havells-Sylvania, a sustainable hotel is achieved through four objectives: to illuminate, create am- biance, maximum efficiency and design. It is necessary a perfect combination between the rational and the emotional, that is to say, what could be defined as artistic lighting and industrial lighting. (urban, beach hotel or rural tourism), seasonality (weekend / summer), design (providing the lighting we need), appli- cations (visual needs), time switched on (hours of use and number of starts), power of the luminaire and lamp, and maintenance. When installing a luminaire that achie- ves maximum efficiency we must start by the luminous flux need, and once the choice is made, we must evaluate