Run a clinic or salon on its opening hours: aircon by zone, lighting scenes, a staff door that logs who came in, and alerts behind the scenes.
📍 We serve KL, Selangor & Putrajaya.
Clinic and salon automation puts the premises on the opening hours: the aircon, the lighting scenes and the staff door follow one schedule, and the owner gets an alert if a leak, a door or an after-hours entry needs attention. It covers the building, not the treatment: medical and salon equipment, fire systems and the building's central aircon stay with their own suppliers and consultants. Lighting and door power supplies are electrical work. For homes, see smart home installation.
A neighbourhood clinic, a dental or aesthetic practice and a hair or beauty salon share the same daily rhythm: the first person in switches everything on, the last person out switches everything off, and in between the rooms are busy one hour and empty the next. Most of the waste and most of the worry sit in those transitions.
Automation here is modest. Schedules that know the opening hours, aircon that runs where people are, lighting scenes for opening, cleaning and closing, a staff door that records who came in, and a few sensors behind the scenes. None of it touches how patients are treated or how a stylist works; it only takes routine switching and checking off the staff's list.
Everything else hangs off one weekly schedule. Home Assistant's schedule helper, for instance, is built from time blocks with a start and an end; the schedule turns active when a block starts and inactive when it ends, and automations can use it as a trigger or a condition. Consumer apps have simpler versions of the same idea.
Clinics and salons rarely have tidy hours. Split shifts, a late evening once a week, Sunday sessions and public holidays all need to be in the schedule, or the aircon will start for an empty shop. Keep one master schedule and let each zone follow it, so a change of hours is made once.
| Zone | During opening hours | Outside opening hours |
|---|---|---|
| Reception and waiting area | Lights and aircon on; door chime active | Off; door alerts to the owner |
| Consultation or treatment rooms | Aircon and lights on when a room is in use | Off |
| Salon floor and stations | General lights on; station lights left to the stylist | Off |
| Staff room and store | Lights by presence sensor | Off; store door alerts to the owner |
| Signboard and window | Off in daylight | On from dusk to a set closing time |
Aircon is where a schedule pays back first. The waiting area needs to be comfortable when the doors open, so start it a little ahead. Treatment rooms and private rooms can run only while they are in use, which a presence sensor or a simple button at the door can signal. A salon full of dryers warms up fast, so its aircon may need a cooler setting during busy hours than first thing in the morning.
Wall-mounted split units are easy to schedule with IR controllers, and the smart aircon control guide explains how they work with existing remotes. Ducted, cassette and building-wide systems usually need their own controller and the aircon supplier's advice. In a mall, the landlord may run the cooling for you; ask before buying anything.
Think of the premises in zones rather than switches: reception, waiting area, rooms or stations, back of house and frontage. Each zone gets a few scenes. Opening brings up reception and the waiting area. Cleaning puts everything on bright for the evening team. Closing switches off all but a low light and hands the frontage to the night schedule.
Wikipedia's occupancy sensor entry describes sensors that adjust lights, temperature or ventilation to the people present, and vacancy sensors where a person switches the light on and the sensor switches it off once the room is empty. Vacancy mode suits staff rooms, stores and toilets, where nobody wants the light to come on by itself but everybody forgets to switch it off.
Leave the task lighting that staff rely on, such as a stylist's mirror light or a practitioner's examination light, under their own switch. Automation should never darken a room in the middle of someone's work.
A staff door that opens with a code, card or fingerprint ends the problem of spare keys, and its log shows who opened up and when. Give each person their own credential and remove it on their last day. For readers, maglocks, exit buttons and the power supply behind them, the door access system guide explains what one door involves, and the face recognition versus fingerprint guide compares the two readers.
A contact sensor on the front door can sound a soft chime in the back room when a client walks in while everyone is busy. Any door on an escape route must still open easily from inside; settle the lock type for those doors with your fire consultant or Bomba before anything is ordered.
Salons run many basins and clinics often have sinks in several rooms. A small leak under a basin or a washing machine can soak the floor overnight, and in a shoplot it may drip onto a neighbour below. Battery leak sensors under each basin, with an alert to the owner, are a cheap safeguard; the water leak sensor guide also covers automatic shut-off valves.
Store rooms holding towels, linen, retail products and paper records can turn musty when the aircon is off for the night. A temperature and humidity sensor shows the trend so you can decide whether the store needs ventilation or a dehumidifier; the temperature and humidity sensor guide explains what to watch.
Treatment rooms, consultation rooms, changing areas and toilets are private spaces. Keep cameras and microphones out of them entirely, and choose sensors that report only occupied or empty. If you use a camera at reception or the entrance, put up a notice and check your obligations under the PDPA with your adviser; the PDPA guide for CCTV and biometrics sets out the questions to ask.
Door logs and fingerprint templates are personal data about your staff as well. Limit who can see them, keep them only as long as you need them, and keep the admin account in the owner's name.
Some things should never be on a smart plug, a schedule or a shared app: medical and dental equipment, sterilisers, lasers and other treatment devices, anything the manufacturer says must stay on, and the building's fire alarm, emergency lighting and exit signs. Their suppliers and your consultant decide how they are powered and controlled.
The same goes for anything shared with other tenants, such as a building's central aircon or a common corridor light. Automate only what belongs to your unit.
Staff must be able to open, close and run the premises by hand. Keep physical keys or a manual override for the staff door, know what the lock does when power fails, and make sure wall switches still work without the app. The power cut and UPS guide explains how a small backup keeps a hub and router running.
Choose a hub that runs schedules locally so a dropped internet line does not stop the aircon or the lights following the opening hours. Put the smart devices on their own network, away from the appointment system and the payment terminal.
Putting room or signboard lighting on smart switches, adding a relay to a zone, powering a door access lock and adding a socket for a hub are all electrical work, even in a small unit.
For smart switches and anything wired into the mains, we supply the devices and set up the app, and the switch or wiring work is done by an electrical contractor registered with Suruhanjaya Tenaga that we coordinate.
Any mains electrical work, such as a new power point, a change at the distribution board or a hardwired switch that needs new wiring, must be done by an electrical contractor registered with Suruhanjaya Tenaga.
| Settle first | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| The real weekly opening hours, holidays included | Every schedule follows this one list |
| Which zones each aircon unit serves | Rooms in use get cooled; empty ones do not |
| Which lights staff must control themselves | Task lights are never switched off by a scene |
| Who gets a staff credential and who is admin | Leavers can be removed on the day |
| Which doors are on an escape route | Lock choice for those doors goes to your consultant or Bomba |
| What must never be automated | Treatment equipment and fire systems stay separate |
| Where the leak and humidity sensors go | Under basins, machines and in the store |
If the premises are still being fitted out, plan the zones and switching with the ceiling and partitions; the salon interior design guide and the shop fit-out service cover the build.
We map the zones with you, install the IR controllers, presence, door, leak and humidity sensors and the hub, supply the smart switches and door access hardware that suit the premises, and set up the opening hours schedule, the scenes, the staff accounts and the owner's alerts. We do the smart device, app and low-voltage side of the job. Tell us whether it is a clinic or a salon, how many rooms or stations there are and how the aircon is controlled today.
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