Awera
For Hotels & hospitality

Give every camera on your property a brain.

Awera watches the cameras your property already has — lobbies, pools and back of house — around the clock, so your staff do not have to.

Try it on your own cameras for 30 days · nothing to pay before it ends

Hotels & hospitality, on the cameras already there. Everything in this film runs on your own feeds: no new cameras, no rewiring. Watch with sound

Use cases

What Awera watches for at hotels and hospitality.

Some of the things it catches on your property, day and night:

👁️

Loitering in lobbies & corridors

Someone lingering in the lobby or corridors late.

🛗

Tailgating into a guest lift or floor

Following a guest past the key-lock.

🏊

Pool or gym after curfew

Use of the pool or gym past the posted hours.

🧳

Unattended luggage

A bag left in a lobby or public area.

🚑

Guest fall or slip

In a lobby, on a stair, or on the pool deck.

🌙

After-hours intruder

Movement on the property overnight.

🆘

A person down in a corridor

Someone collapsed who needs help.

👥

Crowd or queue at reception

A bottleneck at check-in or an event.

📹

Camera tampering or blackout

A camera covered, turned away, or suddenly blind.

🔥

Fire & smoke

Smoke or flame in view, flagged in seconds.

🛑

Blocked fire exit or lane

An escape route or fire lane obstructed.

🚗

Vehicle where it shouldn't be

A vehicle parked in a lane or zone that must stay clear.

💧

Water leak or flooding

A leak spreading where it will do damage.

Custom rules

Not on the list? Tell it what to watch.

Add your own checks in plain English — Awera watches for those too.

The console

A Thursday across front of house and back of house.

The lobby, the reception queue, the pool and the restaurant on one side, and the night round, breakfast and the loading bay lock on the other.

Awera console · The Harbour HotelExample figures · the shape of the screen, not a customer's numbers

Thursday in an 88-camera hotel.

The Harbour Hotel · 88 cameras
TodayAll camerasAsk anything…
Metricswhat the cameras count here
Guests in the lobby now122 waiting at reception · under 2 min
Reception wait todayavg 3 minlongest 9 min at 15:10
Pool and gym nowpool 6 · gym 3lifeguard at post
Restaurant tonight64 seatedof 110 · 4 plates at the pass

People waiting at reception today, with the routines and automations marked on it

049now 20:4200:0006:0012:0018:0000:0002:09 Night round done06:00 Breakfast service opened11:00 Checkouts done15:09 9 waiting at reception → duty manager told17:00 Pool at its busiest20:03 Loading bay locked20:30 Restaurant22:00 Pool close23:30 Kitchen close
countedroutine doneautomation fireddue later
● LIVEReception · CAM-022 waiting · 2 staff
  • Lobby12 guests
  • Reception2 waiting · 2 staff
  • Pool6 people · lifeguard present
  • Gym3 people
  • Restaurant64 seated
  • Loading baylocked
Routineswhat must happen on a schedule, and whether it did

Today 3 of 5

3 of 5 done today · next: Pool close at 22:00
  • Night rounddone02:10 · all floors · 11 min
  • Breakfast openeddoneon time
  • Loading bay locklate20:04 · 4 min late
  • Pool closedue
  • Kitchen closedue

This week

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Loading bay lock20:00
Pool close22:00
Kitchen close23:30
Night round02:00
done on timelatemissed, someone was told
Automationswatched all the time, act the moment it happens
WhenThenToday
countMore than 6 waiting at reception→WhatsApp the duty managerfired 1×15:09 · second desk in 3 min
countPool over 15 people, or no lifeguard in view→Alert the pool attendantwatchinglast Sun 16:20
timeKitchen exit open over 3 min→Alert the duty managerwatchinglast Tue 23:52 · closed in 4 min
eventBag left alone in the lobby over 3 min→Alert the conciergewatchinglast Wed 11:14 · claimed
eventA guest falls in a corridor or by the pool→Call the duty managerwatchingnever · watched on all 88 cameras

Today, in one paragraph Highlights · sent at 18:00

Night round and breakfast on time. Check-in peaked at 15:10 with nine waiting and a second desk was open within three minutes. The loading bay was locked at 20:04 and the restaurant reached 64 covers. Pool close is due at 22:00.

Example figures, shaped like a real week. The screens are the product’s own.

The same product, set up for your place.

1 · Your cameras

No rip-and-replace. Awera runs on the CCTV you already have.

2 · The brain

Every feed is understood in plain language and checked against the rules above, 24/7.

3 · The alert

Only what matters reaches your people — in seconds, on WhatsApp or a call.

Teams and sites

One account for every site you run, with a role for each person.

The night manager sees the back of house. The duty manager sees the property. The owner sees every property.

A role for each person

Nobody opens footage that is not theirs.

ShiftMgrYou
Their own area✓✓✓
The whole site·✓✓
Every site··✓
Add people··✓

Set once, per person, per site.

Every site on one login

Several properties on one account, so the group sees which hotel had the long queue at check-in.

The Harbour Hotel88 cameras
Lakeview Lodgeneeds you
Market Street44 cameras
Beach Road Suites36 cameras

Alerts follow the rota

Until a real person has it.

1
The person on dutycalled 22:14 · no answer
2
Two minutes latermoved down the list
✓
The manager answered22:16 · handled
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FAQ

The questions people running hotels and hospitality ask.

Does the duty manager get a web console, or is it all on a phone?

Both. The duty manager and the front office use the web console at the desk: guests in the lobby, people waiting at reception, the pool and gym, and whether the night round and the loading bay lock happened. The alerts, more than six waiting at check-in or a kitchen exit propped open, go to the phone of whoever is on shift, by WhatsApp or a call.

Can the GM, the duty managers and housekeeping share one account across two properties?

Yes. One account, one login, roles for each person, every property under it. A duty manager sees their property and their shift. Housekeeping sees the corridors and the back of house. The general manager sees everything, and a group operations lead can look across all properties on one screen without changing anything on any of them.

Can it tell us how many guests are in the hotel right now?

It tells you how many people are in each area right now: the lobby, the queue at reception, the pool, the gym, the restaurant. Those are live counts and they are the ones a duty manager acts on. A total for every guest in the building would need counting at every door and drifts within hours, so we do not claim it. Your PMS already knows the occupancy.

Will it confirm the night round was done and the pool was closed on time?

Yes. You set the routines you expect, the night round at 02:00, the pool close at 22:00, the loading bay lock at 20:00, and Awera watches for them on the cameras. Each shows done on time, late or missed for every day of the week, and a missed one reaches the duty manager while it can still be done.

Guests expect privacy. What does it record about them?

Nothing about individual guests. It watches public areas for moments you have set, a queue building, a bag left alone, the pool used after curfew, and it counts people in an area. The footage stays on your recorder, as it does today. Only a clip of a flagged moment leaves, encrypted, and faces can be blurred on the device before it goes. Corridors can be included or left out.

We have cameras from two different installers over the years. Will it run on all of them?

In nearly every case, yes. The Awera device sits beside your recorder and takes the feeds it already records, from Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, CP Plus and any ONVIF or RTSP camera, whatever installer fitted them. On day one of the trial we check every camera, tell you which ones give a usable view, and start with ten of them.

Will the duty manager be interrupted for every guest who lingers in the lobby?

No. People sitting in a lobby are normal and stay quiet. The rules are yours: a bag alone for more than three minutes, more than six waiting at the desk, someone in the pool after close. Each is tuned to your property during the trial. On the rare critical event, a guest down in a corridor, a person still makes the final call.

Can it help with the check-in queue?

Yes, in two ways. Live, it tells the duty manager when the queue passes the number you set, so a second desk opens before guests start looking at their watches. Over the week, the console shows the queue by hour, which is usually one predictable peak, and that is the hour to roster for. Most properties find that the second desk at the right time costs less than the reviews.

30 minutes, on footage like yours

Book a demo for hotels and hospitality.

We show Awera running on a place like yours, map your top scenarios to the console, and give you an indicative price for your camera count. Then, if you want it, a 30-day trial on your own cameras.