Hospitality
Musty rooms cost bookings and reviews. Cognituv treats the fan coils, vertical cabinet units and common areas where odors start, and tracks room air quality in Cognituv Connect.
Case studyA problem room back in service, 12 months without a complaintHospitality · Hotel · New York Downtown · New York, NYIAQ & odorRead the case study 
What’s at stake
Vertical fan coils and PTACs run wet and dark. Biofilm on the coil and drain pan is a common source of musty smells.
A room pulled for odor remediation is lost revenue.
Lobbies, fitness rooms, restaurants and corridors shape first impressions.
Fixes have to drop into existing equipment between turns.
IAQ & odor
Hospitality · Hotel · New York Downtown · New York, NY
One guest room kept drawing odor complaints that maintenance, deodorizers and new filters couldn’t fix. A FreshFilter in its cabinet unit put it back in service, rented with zero complaints since.
Read the Conrad Hotel case study →Where Cognituv fits
In the fieldReplaces the dust filter in a vertical fan coil with UV-C and photocatalytic treatment.
See FreshFilter-VCU
In the fieldCeiling air treatment for lobbies, corridors and meeting rooms.
See Overwatch 2x2Wall and mobile purifiers for fitness rooms, kitchens and back-of-house.
See Upper-air & in-room UV-CUV-C on the pool and spa filtration loop.
See Pools and spasRoom-level air quality, so you know which rooms need attention before guests do.
See Cognituv ConnectFacility types
What we look at first, the systems we usually find, the codes and standards to check and where we’d start. Codes and standards are listed for reference: a listing isn’t a compliance finding, and doesn’t mean any product, Cognituv’s included, is certified to one.
Guest rooms with restaurants, meeting rooms, pools and back-of-house, often with a cooling tower on the roof.
Includes: Full-service hotel · Resort
Guest rooms with few shared services, a small crew and a PTAC or split system in nearly every room.
Includes: Economy hotel · Select-service hotel · Extended stay
Apartment and condominium buildings, from high-rise towers to affordable housing, where residents live with the HVAC every day.
Includes: Apartment tower · Condominium tower · Affordable and workforce housing
Dining rooms and kitchens with hood exhaust, grease and heat working on the HVAC.
Includes: Full-service restaurant · Quick-service restaurant · Hotel kitchen
Gaming floors, auditoriums and exhibition halls that swing from empty to full in an hour.
Includes: Casino gaming floor · Performance venue or cinema · Convention and exhibition center
Identify · Apply · Verify™
Room sensors and guest complaints show which rooms and units are the problem.
FreshFilter or Overwatch dropped into existing equipment between turns.
Room air quality keeps reporting into Cognituv Connect, so you can see each room stay fresh.
Where we work: Full-service hotels, Select-service and extended stay, Resorts, Multifamily and senior living, Restaurants and kitchens and Fitness and spa.
Codes and standards
The list comes from Cognituv’s facility and code library, reviewed September 2026. Publication isn’t adoption: whether a document applies, and which edition, depends on your jurisdiction, its amendments and your project, and the authority having jurisdiction decides. A listing isn’t a compliance finding for your facility, and doesn’t mean any product, Cognituv’s included, is certified to it.
ASHRAE 188Consensus standard · 2021
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188, Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems
Minimum requirements for a water management program that reduces Legionella risk in building water systems.
Listed for: Full-service hotel and resort
ASHRAE 62.1Consensus standard · 2025
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality
Minimum ventilation and related indoor-air-quality requirements for the occupancies it covers.
Listed for: Full-service hotel and resort, Select-service and extended-stay hotel, Multifamily residential, Restaurant and commercial kitchen, Casino, theater and convention center
WELL v2Certification program · v2
WELL Building Standard, version 2
Certification of building features and performance that support occupant health, verified by the program.
Listed for: Full-service hotel and resort, Multifamily residential
ASHRAE 62.2Consensus standard · 2025
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings
Minimum ventilation, local exhaust and source-control requirements for indoor air quality in dwelling units.
Listed for: Multifamily residential
LEEDCertification program · v5, v4.1 and v4
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating systems
Green-building certification; the version that applies is the one the project registered under.
Listed for: Multifamily residential
NFPA 96Consensus standard · 2027
NFPA 96, Standard for Ventilation Control and Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations
Fire-safety requirements for the ventilation and exhaust systems of commercial kitchens.
Listed for: Restaurant and commercial kitchen
ASHRAE 241Consensus standard · 2023
ASHRAE Standard 241, Control of Infectious Aerosols
Planning, design and operation of air systems to reduce exposure to infectious aerosols, including an infection-risk management mode.
Listed for: Casino, theater and convention center
Start with a no-cost assessment: a call with an engineer and a written recommendation. When you want the data first, Cognituv Connect measures your own equipment, scoped and quoted for your site.
