All-Optical as Brush: AINOPOL Revitalizes Nanjing Zhuangyuanlou Hotel into a Smart Venue

Zhuangyuanlou Hotel is located at the heart of the Qinhuai Scenic Belt adjacent to Nanjing Confucius Temple, directly across the street from Jiangnan Imperial Examination Hall and China Imperial Examination Museum. In operation since 1991 for over three decades, it ranks among Jiangsu’s first batch of Golden Tripod-rated cultural-themed tourist hotels. The “Zhuangyuan (Top Scholar)” cultural motif permeates every detail from horizontal inscribed boards to interior furnishings, earning its iconic brand positioning: “Overnight by the Qinhuai River to experience ancient imperial examination culture.” Nevertheless, amid the sweeping smart transformation across the hospitality sector, the legacy network infrastructure has gradually become a major bottleneck for this time-honored cultural landmark.

I. Legacy Network Constraints: Roadblocks to Intelligent Upgrade

Two critical challenges hampered digital renovation.Network Limitations: The original copper-based cabling featured messy routing, constrained bandwidth and high latency, failing to support emerging applications including in-room smart guest control and public-area robot delivery services.Isolated Smart Devices: TVs, air conditioners, lighting and curtain systems operated as standalone silos without centralized management platforms, making voice control and automated scene linkage impossible. Compounding difficulties, the hotel sits within the protected Confucius Temple scenic precinct governed by strict heritage preservation regulations. Construction work is forbidden to alter historic architectural appearances, rendering conventional copper renovation largely unfeasible.

II. All-Optical Solution: Single Fiber Powers Smart Future

Tailored to the hotel’s core requirements, AINOPOL delivered an integrated all-optical upgrade to revamp both network and terminal infrastructure fundamentally.Replacing multi-layer traditional wiring, a single optical fiber converges data, IPTV and voice services, slashing cabling consumption and construction complexity by 60% while doubling long-term operation & maintenance efficiency.Full-property Wi-Fi 6 coverage was deployed to deliver multi-gigabit bandwidth and millisecond-level latency, enabling seamless roaming between guest rooms and public zones with persistent stable connectivity for all smart terminals.Boasting inherent outstanding scalability, the all-optical architecture accommodates incremental service expansions over the next 30 years without large-scale reconstruction.Built upon the robust all-optical backbone, AINOPOL enabled deep ecological integration between the guest room control system and hotel PMS (Property Management System), rolling out end-to-end smart hospitality throughout guests’ entire stay. Visitors enjoy facial recognition check-in, voice-activated control over lights, curtains and air conditioning, plus precise in-room delivery by service robots.

III. Core Equipment Deployment List

The following key hardware was implemented to complete the dual upgrade of all-optical network and intelligent room control at Nanjing Zhuangyuanlou Hotel:

1× Firewall (AINOPOL ZH-M1)｜Unit Price: CNY 28,519

1× Egress Router (AINOPOL ZH-AC500 Ultra)｜Unit Price: CNY 26,668

1× IPTV Server (AINOPOL ZH-H200 Ultra)｜Unit Price: CNY 37,942

1× Core Switch (AINOPOL ZH-5530TGX-SI)｜Unit Price: CNY 18,810

1× All-Optical Switch (AINOPOL ZH-CS6512X-SI)｜Unit Price: CNY 8,400

1× 24-Port Cloud Switch (AINOPOL ZH-CS5228P-LI)｜Unit Price: CNY 6,270

9× 24-Port PoE Cloud Switch (AINOPOL ZH-CS5228P-PWR)｜Unit Price: CNY 9,075｜Subtotal: CNY 81,675

1× Voice Gateway (AINOPOL ZH-IAD32S)｜Unit Price: CNY 17,020

16× Ceiling-mounted AP (AINOPOL ZH-AP30006S-M)｜Unit Price: CNY 2,194｜Subtotal: CNY 35,104

110× Optical AP (AINOPOL ZH-F416W)｜Unit Price: CNY 1,647｜Subtotal: CNY 181,170

2× OLT Optical Access Equipment (AINOPOL ZH-4GS Ultra)｜Unit Price: CNY 24,445｜Subtotal: CNY 48,890

2× SFP STICK Module (AINOPOL ZH-SFPX)｜Unit Price: CNY 1,380｜Subtotal: CNY 2,760

14× Gigabit SFP Transceiver (AINOPOL ZH-SFP-10KM-SM1310)｜Unit Price: CNY 400｜Subtotal: CNY 5,600

4× 10G SFP+ Transceiver (AINOPOL ZH-SFP+-10KM-SM1310)｜Unit Price: CNY 640｜Subtotal: CNY 2,560

1× 8-Port PoE Switch (AINOPOL ZH-CS5210P-PWR)｜Unit Price: CNY 3,668.5

4× Wall Plate AP (AINOPOL ZH-APX2)｜Unit Price: CNY 1,470｜Subtotal: CNY 5,880

Total investment for all core equipment: approximately CNY 462,000

The investment of over 460,000 RMB has delivered a comprehensively upgraded all-optical network. Fiber cabling has replaced legacy copper wiring to deliver gigabit bandwidth with millisecond-level latency, completely eliminating lagging and stuttering issues of the old network.

Full-property Wi-Fi 6 deployment enables seamless wireless roaming across the premises. Deep integration between the in-room guest control system and hotel PMS realizes end-to-end smart hospitality services, ranging from facial recognition check-in and voice-activated room control to autonomous in-room delivery by service robots.

Crucially, thin and flexible fiber cables are routed through existing pipe shafts without damaging historic architectural features in the core Confucius Temple scenic zone, fully complying with cultural heritage protection regulations. All devices are centrally manageable via the EAAS cloud platform; field troubleshooting can be completed remotely via mobile terminals to drastically cut daily maintenance workload.

Benefiting from the inherent scalability of the all-optical architecture, no large-scale reconstruction will be required for new service expansions over the next three decades.

Elevated from a thirty-year-old cultural tourism landmark to a benchmark smart hotel with AINOPOL’s technological empowerment, Nanjing Zhuangyuanlou Hotel takes on a brand-new look. It perfectly blends time-honored imperial examination culture with cutting-edge all-optical communication technology, pioneering a brand-new cultural hospitality model for Jinling (Nanjing).