Roomzilla is for reserving conference rooms.
Cambridge Innovation Center created Roomzilla for its own use in a fit of frustration with other means of booking and managing conference rooms. With over 40 conference rooms shared amongst nearly 300 startup companies, CIC needed a low-cost, automated means to enable everyone to efficiently share conference rooms. CIC's leaders, Geoff Mamlet and Tim Rowe, teamed up with close friend and past CIC team-member John Norman to create a better answer. The result is Roomzilla. We look forward to incorporating your feedback and making this into a better tool for everyone to utilize shared facilities better.
The typical experience of organizations with their conference rooms is that they are often booked by someone, using some sort of system (e.g. a piece of paper taped to the conference room door), but they are frequently in fact empty, either because plans changed, or because the room was booked "just in case." This leads many organizations to build more conference rooms than they actually need -- or simply to have fewer rooms seem available than really are. The cost to heat, cool, and power conference rooms, let alone pay the rent for the space they use, can add up. In addition, it is often a lot of work for someone in the office to keep track of conference room bookings. Roomzilla solves this problem in an elegant and friendly way. Its automated email reminders with one-click cancellation help people remember to release a room they don't really need, freeing up the resource for others.
Room reservations are displayed on an iPod Touch. Attach the Touch outside of your conference room, and you'll be able to see at a glance who has the room booked right now:
You can also add, update, and delete reservations from the web:
As the day progresses, the Touch will update its display.
If the room is free, you can make a "local reservation" immediately by tapping "Use Now":
