Your meeting room panels are on right now. Even when nobody's in the building.
It's easy to overlook the devices that quietly hum away in the background of a modern workplace. Meeting room door panels — used for booking, check-in, and availability — are typically always on, always drawing power. Individually, the consumption seems trivial. But across an office estate, it adds up to a surprisingly significant energy cost.
The good news? A simple, automatic feature can change that.
Sleep Mode in Morbit Studio intelligently reduces power consumption on door panels during periods of inactivity. Outside business hours the screen dims and background activity is minimised.
The result is a device that consumes significantly less energy — without requiring any manual intervention from your IT team or facilities staff.
Morbit Studio's Sleep Mode is also designed to be responsive rather than disruptive. Panels automatically wake up an hour before business hours begin, so the experience is seamless from the moment the first person walks through the door.
Analysis of commonly deployed meeting room panels shows that Sleep Mode can deliver:
Up to ~45% reduction in power consumption during idle periods
Typical draw dropping from ~10–11W down to ~6W on higher-power panels
Consistent savings of 10–20%+ even on lower-power devices
To put that in context, consider a modest office with 20 meeting rooms, an average saving of 5W per panel, and roughly 12 hours of low-usage time each day. That equates to approximately 1.2 kWh saved per day — or 438 kWh per year from a single site.
Scale that across multiple offices or a managed estate, and the impact on both energy costs and carbon footprint becomes substantial.
For facilities and workplace managers, energy efficiency is increasingly tied to broader sustainability targets. Smart building strategies don't always require expensive infrastructure overhauls — sometimes the most effective wins come from the technology you already have, configured to work smarter.
Sleep Mode is a prime example: a passive, automatic optimisation that runs quietly in the background while you focus on everything else.
A common concern with energy-saving features is that they introduce friction. With Morbit Studio, that trade-off simply doesn't exist.
Users retain full functionality at all times:
Instant room booking from the panel
Check-in and check-out without any delay
At-a-glance availability whenever they need it
The panel wakes automatically when needed. For the end user, nothing changes — except that the building around them is working more efficiently.
Energy efficiency in smart buildings shouldn't require complex configuration or dedicated projects. Features like Sleep Mode represent a broader philosophy at Morbit: that technology should reduce waste and improve the workplace experience at the same time, without asking anything extra of the people using it.
If you manage meeting room technology across one site or many, it's worth asking: are your panels working as efficiently as they could be?
Explore how Morbit Studio can support your smart building goals — get in touch with our team today.