Navoo And Shelly Bringing Smart Automation To Hospitality

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Shelly already has an established presence in hospitality - three-layer power monitoring across a property, TRV-based room climate control, motion-sensor lighting in common areas. Navoo, an Italian software company, adds a different piece to that picture: a reservation-synced automation and guest-facing software layer that ties Shelly hardware directly to a property's booking calendar, instead of a fixed schedule a property manager sets up and maintains by hand.

Navoo built its business around exactly that problem, a digital guest guide and property-management platform for hospitality operators, and Shelly devices became one of the hardware layers underneath it.

Navoo's Smart Controller connects directly to Shelly relays, switches, thermostats, and sensors already installed in a property, and ties their behavior to the property's own reservation data rather than a manual schedule:

  • Check-in/check-out-driven automation - lights, climate control, and heating/AC turn on or off automatically based on each room's actual reservation dates, synced directly from the booking system, instead of a property manager manually flipping switches between guests.

    One dashboard for every device - every Shelly device across a property, or a whole portfolio of properties, is visible and controllable from a single Navoo Console, rather than switching between separate apps per device type.

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Separately, Navoo's Digital Guide extends control to the guest themselves: from their own phone, a guest can adjust the lights, temperature, or curtains in their room during their stay, without needing the Shelly app, an account, or any setup of their own.

Navoo's own compatibility page lists a fairly broad slice of the Shelly catalog, not a narrow, single-purpose integration:

That breadth matters for the pitch: a property doesn't need a bespoke hardware kit for Navoo - if it's already running standard Shelly relays, dimmers, sensors, and a TRV or Wall Display for climate, Navoo's Smart Controller can sit on top of what's already installed.

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  • A guest checks in, the reservation syncs to Navoo, and the room's Shelly relay/dimmer turns the lights on and the Shelly TRV or Wall Display sets the room to a comfortable temperature, following rules that can trigger both before check-in and after check-out - no property staff involved.

  • A guest checks out, the same sync triggers the opposite: lights off, heating/AC dropped to an energy-saving setpoint, until the next reservation begins.

  • Guest self-service control: during the stay, the guest opens Navoo's Digital Guide on their own phone and adjusts lights, temperature, or curtains directly and no Shelly app or account needed on the guest's side.

  • Unoccupied-period savings: between bookings, or during long gaps in a property's calendar, climate devices (Shelly TRV/Wall Display) and non-essential relays stay in a low-energy holding state automatically, rather than a staff member remembering to adjust every room manually.

  • Post-checkout security monitoring: Shelly door/window sensors and motion sensors let a property manager see real-time alerts if a door or window was left open after checkout, or if motion is detected in a room that should be empty, helping distinguish staff or the owner from someone unauthorized.

  • Voice control crossover: in properties also running Navoo's Alexa Smart Properties setup, guests can control the same Shelly-backed devices by voice.

  • Less manual staff work per turnover - lighting and climate no longer need a person walking each room between checkout and the next check-in.

  • Energy savings from occupancy-aware climate control - heating/AC isn't left running at full comfort settings in empty rooms between bookings.

  • A single, standard hardware base - properties don't need proprietary hospitality-specific hardware; existing Shelly relays, dimmers, sensors, and thermostats already cover the automation Navoo builds on top of.

  • Guest-facing convenience - control moves into the guest's own phone (or voice, via Alexa Smart Properties) without requiring them to install or configure anything Shelly-specific.

What makes Navoo more than a "works with Shelly" device-compatibility line item is a confirmed, real, two-sided relationship: a joint webinar - "Amazon Smart Properties - Amazon and Shelly Solutions for Hospitality facilities and RBnB Arbitrage" (June 2025) - brought Shelly, Navoo, and Amazon Smart Properties (ASP) together around the same hospitality use case.

Navoo is itself an Amazon-certified Alexa Smart Properties solution provider for hospitality and senior living, which opens a natural crossover angle: Shelly hardware, Navoo's automation layer, and Alexa voice control, combined for a single hospitality property.

Short-term rentals and small hospitality operators sit in a similar gap to the one home security occupies for renters: a bespoke, expensive property-management hardware install usually isn't cost-effective at their scale, yet consumer smart-home products built around a single permanent household don't quite fit either. Navoo's approach (reservation-synced automation on top of standard Shelly devices) shows the same pattern that makes Shelly's other bridge-style integrations work: reuse existing, affordable hardware, and let the software layer on top do the work specific to the vertical.

The short-term-rental sector itself is exactly the kind of fragmented, fast-growing market where this pattern compounds: individual hosts and small property managers each run their booking and automation a little differently, and a dedicated hospitality-hardware vendor rarely makes sense until a portfolio grows quite large. A software layer like Navoo's, built on commodity hardware Shelly already sells at consumer prices, can serve a single-apartment host and a multi-property manager with the same underlying devices - the software scales, the hardware doesn't need to change.

Navoo shows what a dedicated software layer can add on top of Shelly's existing hospitality hardware: the same relays, switches, sensors, and thermostats already used to automate a property get tied directly to its booking calendar, and extended into the guest's own hands through the Digital Guide. The hardware doesn't need to change, what changes is who's making the decisions, and when.

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