Connecting Communities

Helping cities and communities with Wi-Fi Monetization Solutions

Drive community engagement, analyze movement and patterns, and boost your local economy. 

Bridge the Digital Divide with Customized Wi-Fi

Bridge the Digital Divide with Customized Wi-Fi

Simplify Wi-Fi access for visitors while creating new communication channels with a customizable captive portal. Create new advertising opportunities and support local businesses. 

Analyze Visitor Behavior with Live Analytics

With GoZone analytics, get real-time data to monitor foot traffic and trends or receive density alerts to help ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for your residents and visitors.

Create Cost-Recovery Solutions

GoZone helps you off-set network OPEX costs. Offer paid or advertisement based premium access plans. Our Ads4WiFi platform and brokerage service provides additional monetization opportunities.

Community Wi-Fi Monetization Framework

Wi-Fi Marketing Plans

Ideal for grocery stores, shops, retailers, and many other brick-and-mortar venues.

Smart WiFi SMB Plans

Starter

$0Forever!
  • Advanced Captive Portal/Splash
    Your guests connect and receive a captive portal that is completely branded to your venue. Create multiple portals for different events. Enforce time and speed limits or block abusers.
  • Touchless Menu Features
    Includes Touchless Menu builder and QR code menus which saves you printing costs and lets you make instant changes to your menu.
  • Social and E-mail Login
    Using our social login functions, you can collect e-mail addresses, age and gender demographics.
  • Guest Analytics
    See details on WiFi usage so you can make informed decisions.
  • DIY Support
    We offer a full knowledgebase of articles to show you exactly how to setup your new GoZone plan. Our support team is also available by using our ticket system.

Essentials

$39per month*
  • Everything in Starter PLUS
    This plan includes all of the Starter Plan features and you can upgrade your plan anytime.
  • Automated Marketing Campaigns
    Run automated e-mail, Twitter and SMS (optional) marketing campaigns to promote your business, get survey data, send birthday coupons and more.
  • Advanced Guest Data Collection
    Using our social login functions, you can collect e-mail addresses, age and gender demographics and other form data. Optionally you can collect mobile numbers to do SMS promotions. E-mail addresses are validated in real-time ensuring less e-mail bouncing.
  • Guest Insights
    Dive deeper on things like dwell times, busy days, busy times etc. Comprehensive reports and automated reports delivered right to your inbox. You'll be able to see data from multiple locations on a single dashboard.
  • Multi-location and support
    Displays data and analytics across multiple locations on a single dashboard view. Group locations and offer franchise, franchisee, manager-level access.Our support team is available to assist you with technical and creative assistance.
  • SMS Marketing
    Increase customer engagement, return visits, and product purchases with engaging and targeted SMS marketing campaigns. Strategically send messages out to guests using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.
  • Guest Plans
    Define and offer unique guest WiFi access levels with Guest Plans. Easily collect direct payments for access to premium WiFi levels. Integrate with existing payments systems for a turnkey solution.
  • SecurePassâ„¢
    Provide venues and guests with the ultimate turn-key secure multi-device management solution for seamless guest access quickly and easily. SecurePassâ„¢ is a simple way to securely manage the connectivity of many kinds of devices, including IoT devices in many types of environments.
Best Value

Professional

$69per month*
  • All Essential Features PLUS
    This plan includes all of the Essentials and Professional features and you can upgrade your plan anytime.
  • Reports and Exports
    Powerful reports give you detailed insight on guest WiFi usage. Take the data that the system has collected and export it into other systems.
  • Auto Sync to external mail systems
    Each day, the collected data will be sent to yur favorite mail system like Mail Chimp, Constant Contact, Fishbowl or Roby.
  • Custom Forms
    Collect additional data from your guests as they login.
  • Coupon Maker
    Create anti-fraud coupons to build loyalty and promote return visits. Our coupon reporting will show you added revenues that your WiFi marketing system is bringing you.
  • Contact Manager/CRM (You could save about 50% off your Mailchimp/Constant Contact/Robly service AND auto data collection AND SMS e-Blast capabilities!)
    Setup automated syncs to all of your Smart WiFi hotspots and import lists from external systems like a POS, another customer list management system, or from any other data source. Group all of your customers using our powerful sorting and tagging functions so you can send scheduled email, Twitter AND text message campaigns to your lists! The comprehensive reports show you the performance of your campaigns.
  • SMS Marketing
    Increase customer engagement, return visits, and product purchases with engaging and targeted SMS marketing campaigns. Strategically send messages out to guests using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.
  • Guest Plans
    Define and offer unique guest WiFi access levels with Guest Plans. Easily collect direct payments for access to premium WiFi levels. Integrate with existing payments systems for a turnkey solution.
  • SecurePassâ„¢
    Provide venues and guests with the ultimate turn-key secure multi-device management solution for seamless guest access quickly and easily. SecurePassâ„¢ is a simple way to securely manage the connectivity of many kinds of devices, including IoT devices in many types of environments.

Professional Plus

$99per month*
  • All Professional Features PLUS
    This plan includes all of the Professional and Professional Plus features.
  • Guest Flows
    Guest flows allows you to create multi-level, multi-page splash pages (captive portals) as your guests connect to guest WiFi giving you the ability to promote multiple events, collect more data, sell advertising space and more.
  • Advanced API
    Populate multiple systems with data collected from your guest WiFi system through advanced API.
  • Zapier Integration
    Our Zapier tie-in allows you to integrate with more than 1600 applications.
  • Account Manager
    Your personal account manager will always be available to you to get the most out of your WiFi marketing plan.
  • SMS Marketing
    Increase customer engagement, return visits, and product purchases with engaging and targeted SMS marketing campaigns. Strategically send messages out to guests using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.
  • Guest Plans
    Define and offer unique guest WiFi access levels with Guest Plans. Easily collect direct payments for access to premium WiFi levels. Integrate with existing payments systems for a turnkey solution.
  • SecurePassâ„¢
    Provide venues and guests with the ultimate turn-key secure multi-device management solution for seamless guest access quickly and easily. SecurePassâ„¢ is a simple way to securely manage the connectivity of many kinds of devices, including IoT devices in many types of environments.

Smart WiFi Enterprise Plans

Customized plans designed for large venues. Choose from the modules below to build a plan that works best for your business.

PRESENCE ANALYTICS
Collect valuable location data including traffic patterns, proximity, dwell time, loyalty, and busy days and times. Analyze visual traffic heatmaps and receive triggered density alerts to help monitor crowds.
ACCESS
Present a branded login experience and allow guests to connect via social, email, or custom survey. Create and define unique WiFi access levels for VIPs, staff and guests. Allow access to predefined guest plans with payments or vouchers.
GUEST INSIGHTS
Analyze detailed guest data safely and securely collected through WiFi access. Gain new understanding about guest loyalty, demographics, dwell time, device type, and more. Export this data to improve overall marketing efforts.
MARKETING & AUTOMATION
Communicate with guests in real-time and leverage automated integrations and APIs. Send triggered campaigns based on guest behavior to drive on-premise purchasing and loyalty.
CONTACT MANAGER
Complete customer relationship management module includes contact import, data filtering, and customer tagging. Create and manage campaigns and reach a defined audience.
ADVERTISING
Create custom landing pages and display interactive smart advertisements with a complete campaign delivery and management system. Track online engagements and drive new revenue.
PRESENCE ANALYTICS
Collect valuable location data including traffic patterns, proximity, dwell time, loyalty, and busy days and times. Analyze visual traffic heatmaps and receive triggered density alerts to help monitor crowds.
ACCESS
Present a branded login experience and allow guests to connect via social, email, or custom survey. Create and define unique WiFi access levels for VIPs, staff and guests. Allow access to predefined guest plans with payments or vouchers.
GUEST INSIGHTS
Analyze detailed guest data safely and securely collected through WiFi access. Gain new understanding about guest loyalty, demographics, dwell time, device type, and more. Export this data to improve overall marketing efforts.
MARKETING & AUTOMATION
Communicate with guests in real-time and leverage automated integrations and APIs. Send triggered campaigns based on guest behavior to drive on-premise purchasing and loyalty.
CONTACT MANAGER
Complete customer relationship management module includes contact import, data filtering, and customer tagging. Create and manage campaigns and reach a defined audience.
ADVERTISING
Create custom landing pages and display interactive smart advertisements with a complete campaign delivery and management system. Track online engagements and drive new revenue.

Enterprise Feature Matrix

  • Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure
    Scaleable platforms on the Amazon AWS cloud provides carrier-grade uptime.
  • Multi-Location Data Views
    An aggregated view of your data giving you visibility to all of your locations or drill-down to specific locations.
  • User Access Control
    Allows your administrator to control and limit access, features and data visibility among users.
  • Advanced Captive Portal Engine
    A complete toolset to design and build dynamic captive portals, guest flows and custom privacy controls. Includes our Touchless Menu features.
  • Guest Forms, Vouchers and Payments
    Collect guest data, surveys, on-line or offline payments and offer different access levels.
  • Customized login methods
    Choose how guests are able to access your network including social login, emails and SMS login, advertisements or a combination.
  • Data Export
    Full guest profile export to CSV allowing you to use collected data in third party systems.
  • Detailed Location Data Analytics
    Analyse detailed information about your locations like busy days, busy times and location comparisons.
  • Demographics and Device Information
    Make informed decisions based on detailed demographics and perform location comparisons.
  • Data Sync to other systems/API
    Save time populating other systems as guest profile data can be sent to external systems on timed intervals.
  • Triggered Campaigns
    Engage with your guests without the manual work by creating personalized email, SMS or Twitter campaigns.
  • Coupons and Loyalty
    Increase spend and promote repeat visits by creating incentives for guests or their friends to come back.
  • Import external data
    Bring in contact data from other systems to consolidate your marketing efforts into a single comprehensive platform.
  • Contact segmenting and lists
    Build contact groups to send personalized messages to your guests based on automatic segmentation and your own critera.
  • Scheduled Campaigns
    Communicate with your contacts to drive awareness through email, SMS or Twitter.
  • Traffic Counts and Statistics
    Monitor your venue and events with real-time and recorded traffic counts and patterning.
  • Heatmapping and Traffic Flows
    Visualize crowd density and how people flow in, out and through your venue to see where people congegrate.
  • Alerting and Reporting
    Create automated alerts to help control crowds or to monitor abnormal trends.
  • Intelligent Landing Page Builder
    Simple to create pages that support multiple campaign types and can easily be modified and re-purposed for other venues or events.
  • Campaign Management Tools
    Offer your advertisers options to suit their advertising needs such as A/B testing, ad weights, flexible scheduling and more.
  • Reporting and Attribution
    Analyse detailed information about the campaigns and creatives to get the best campaign targeting.

  • Access


  • Insights


  • Automation


  • Contacts


  • Presence


  • Advertising

Smart WiFi SMB Plans

Starter

$0Forever!
  • Advanced Captive Portal/Splash
    Your guests connect and receive a captive portal that is completely branded to your venue. Create multiple portals for different events. Enforce time and speed limits or block abusers.
  • Touchless Menu Features
    Includes Touchless Menu builder and QR code menus which saves you printing costs and lets you make instant changes to your menu.
  • Social and E-mail Login
    Using our social login functions, you can collect e-mail addresses, age and gender demographics.
  • Guest Analytics
    See details on WiFi usage so you can make informed decisions.
  • DIY Support
    We offer a full knowledgebase of articles to show you exactly how to setup your new GoZone plan. Our support team is also available by using our ticket system.

Essentials

$39per month*
  • Everything in Starter PLUS
    This plan includes all of the Starter Plan features and you can upgrade your plan anytime.
  • Automated Marketing Campaigns
    Run automated e-mail, Twitter and SMS (optional) marketing campaigns to promote your business, get survey data, send birthday coupons and more.
  • Advanced Guest Data Collection
    Using our social login functions, you can collect e-mail addresses, age and gender demographics and other form data. Optionally you can collect mobile numbers to do SMS promotions. E-mail addresses are validated in real-time ensuring less e-mail bouncing.
  • Guest Insights
    Dive deeper on things like dwell times, busy days, busy times etc. Comprehensive reports and automated reports delivered right to your inbox. You'll be able to see data from multiple locations on a single dashboard.
  • Multi-location and support
    Displays data and analytics across multiple locations on a single dashboard view. Group locations and offer franchise, franchisee, manager-level access.Our support team is available to assist you with technical and creative assistance.
  • SMS Marketing
    Increase customer engagement, return visits, and product purchases with engaging and targeted SMS marketing campaigns. Strategically send messages out to guests using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.
  • Guest Plans
    Define and offer unique guest WiFi access levels with Guest Plans. Easily collect direct payments for access to premium WiFi levels. Integrate with existing payments systems for a turnkey solution.
  • SecurePassâ„¢
    Provide venues and guests with the ultimate turn-key secure multi-device management solution for seamless guest access quickly and easily. SecurePassâ„¢ is a simple way to securely manage the connectivity of many kinds of devices, including IoT devices in many types of environments.
Best Value

Professional

$69per month*
  • All Essential Features PLUS
    This plan includes all of the Essentials and Professional features and you can upgrade your plan anytime.
  • Reports and Exports
    Powerful reports give you detailed insight on guest WiFi usage. Take the data that the system has collected and export it into other systems.
  • Auto Sync to external mail systems
    Each day, the collected data will be sent to yur favorite mail system like Mail Chimp, Constant Contact, Fishbowl or Roby.
  • Custom Forms
    Collect additional data from your guests as they login.
  • Coupon Maker
    Create anti-fraud coupons to build loyalty and promote return visits. Our coupon reporting will show you added revenues that your WiFi marketing system is bringing you.
  • Contact Manager/CRM (You could save about 50% off your Mailchimp/Constant Contact/Robly service AND auto data collection AND SMS e-Blast capabilities!)
    Setup automated syncs to all of your Smart WiFi hotspots and import lists from external systems like a POS, another customer list management system, or from any other data source. Group all of your customers using our powerful sorting and tagging functions so you can send scheduled email, Twitter AND text message campaigns to your lists! The comprehensive reports show you the performance of your campaigns.
  • SMS Marketing
    Increase customer engagement, return visits, and product purchases with engaging and targeted SMS marketing campaigns. Strategically send messages out to guests using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.
  • Guest Plans
    Define and offer unique guest WiFi access levels with Guest Plans. Easily collect direct payments for access to premium WiFi levels. Integrate with existing payments systems for a turnkey solution.
  • SecurePassâ„¢
    Provide venues and guests with the ultimate turn-key secure multi-device management solution for seamless guest access quickly and easily. SecurePassâ„¢ is a simple way to securely manage the connectivity of many kinds of devices, including IoT devices in many types of environments.

Professional Plus

$99per month*
  • All Professional Features PLUS
    This plan includes all of the Professional and Professional Plus features.
  • Guest Flows
    Guest flows allows you to create multi-level, multi-page splash pages (captive portals) as your guests connect to guest WiFi giving you the ability to promote multiple events, collect more data, sell advertising space and more.
  • Advanced API
    Populate multiple systems with data collected from your guest WiFi system through advanced API.
  • Zapier Integration
    Our Zapier tie-in allows you to integrate with more than 1600 applications.
  • Account Manager
    Your personal account manager will always be available to you to get the most out of your WiFi marketing plan.
  • SMS Marketing
    Increase customer engagement, return visits, and product purchases with engaging and targeted SMS marketing campaigns. Strategically send messages out to guests using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.
  • Guest Plans
    Define and offer unique guest WiFi access levels with Guest Plans. Easily collect direct payments for access to premium WiFi levels. Integrate with existing payments systems for a turnkey solution.
  • SecurePassâ„¢
    Provide venues and guests with the ultimate turn-key secure multi-device management solution for seamless guest access quickly and easily. SecurePassâ„¢ is a simple way to securely manage the connectivity of many kinds of devices, including IoT devices in many types of environments.

Smart WiFi Enterprise Plans

Customized plans designed for large venues. Choose from the modules below to build a plan that works best for your business.

PRESENCE ANALYTICS
Collect valuable location data including traffic patterns, proximity, dwell time, loyalty, and busy days and times. Analyze visual traffic heatmaps and receive triggered density alerts to help monitor crowds.
ACCESS
Present a branded login experience and allow guests to connect via social, email, or custom survey. Create and define unique WiFi access levels for VIPs, staff and guests. Allow access to predefined guest plans with payments or vouchers.
GUEST INSIGHTS
Analyze detailed guest data safely and securely collected through WiFi access. Gain new understanding about guest loyalty, demographics, dwell time, device type, and more. Export this data to improve overall marketing efforts.
MARKETING & AUTOMATION
Communicate with guests in real-time and leverage automated integrations and APIs. Send triggered campaigns based on guest behavior to drive on-premise purchasing and loyalty.
CONTACT MANAGER
Complete customer relationship management module includes contact import, data filtering, and customer tagging. Create and manage campaigns and reach a defined audience.
ADVERTISING
Create custom landing pages and display interactive smart advertisements with a complete campaign delivery and management system. Track online engagements and drive new revenue.
PRESENCE ANALYTICS
Collect valuable location data including traffic patterns, proximity, dwell time, loyalty, and busy days and times. Analyze visual traffic heatmaps and receive triggered density alerts to help monitor crowds.
ACCESS
Present a branded login experience and allow guests to connect via social, email, or custom survey. Create and define unique WiFi access levels for VIPs, staff and guests. Allow access to predefined guest plans with payments or vouchers.
GUEST INSIGHTS
Analyze detailed guest data safely and securely collected through WiFi access. Gain new understanding about guest loyalty, demographics, dwell time, device type, and more. Export this data to improve overall marketing efforts.
MARKETING & AUTOMATION
Communicate with guests in real-time and leverage automated integrations and APIs. Send triggered campaigns based on guest behavior to drive on-premise purchasing and loyalty.
CONTACT MANAGER
Complete customer relationship management module includes contact import, data filtering, and customer tagging. Create and manage campaigns and reach a defined audience.
ADVERTISING
Create custom landing pages and display interactive smart advertisements with a complete campaign delivery and management system. Track online engagements and drive new revenue.

Enterprise Feature Matrix

  • Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure
    Scaleable platforms on the Amazon AWS cloud provides carrier-grade uptime.
  • Multi-Location Data Views
    An aggregated view of your data giving you visibility to all of your locations or drill-down to specific locations.
  • User Access Control
    Allows your administrator to control and limit access, features and data visibility among users.
  • Advanced Captive Portal Engine
    A complete toolset to design and build dynamic captive portals, guest flows and custom privacy controls. Includes our Touchless Menu features.
  • Guest Forms, Vouchers and Payments
    Collect guest data, surveys, on-line or offline payments and offer different access levels.
  • Customized login methods
    Choose how guests are able to access your network including social login, emails and SMS login, advertisements or a combination.
  • Data Export
    Full guest profile export to CSV allowing you to use collected data in third party systems.
  • Detailed Location Data Analytics
    Analyse detailed information about your locations like busy days, busy times and location comparisons.
  • Demographics and Device Information
    Make informed decisions based on detailed demographics and perform location comparisons.
  • Data Sync to other systems/API
    Save time populating other systems as guest profile data can be sent to external systems on timed intervals.
  • Triggered Campaigns
    Engage with your guests without the manual work by creating personalized email, SMS or Twitter campaigns.
  • Coupons and Loyalty
    Increase spend and promote repeat visits by creating incentives for guests or their friends to come back.
  • Import external data
    Bring in contact data from other systems to consolidate your marketing efforts into a single comprehensive platform.
  • Contact segmenting and lists
    Build contact groups to send personalized messages to your guests based on automatic segmentation and your own critera.
  • Scheduled Campaigns
    Communicate with your contacts to drive awareness through email, SMS or Twitter.
  • Traffic Counts and Statistics
    Monitor your venue and events with real-time and recorded traffic counts and patterning.
  • Heatmapping and Traffic Flows
    Visualize crowd density and how people flow in, out and through your venue to see where people congegrate.
  • Alerting and Reporting
    Create automated alerts to help control crowds or to monitor abnormal trends.
  • Intelligent Landing Page Builder
    Simple to create pages that support multiple campaign types and can easily be modified and re-purposed for other venues or events.
  • Campaign Management Tools
    Offer your advertisers options to suit their advertising needs such as A/B testing, ad weights, flexible scheduling and more.
  • Reporting and Attribution
    Analyse detailed information about the campaigns and creatives to get the best campaign targeting.

  • Access


  • Insights


  • Automation


  • Contacts


  • Presence


  • Advertising

Discover how cities and communities are using Ads4WiFI to revolutionize public Wi-Fi with GoZone.

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Marketing4WiFi Features

Integrated Ad Spaces

Integrated Ad Spaces to allow sponsorship opportunities and flexible access methods. Promote sponsors, upcoming events and even app downloads.

Guest Plans & WiFi Payments

Offer guest WiFi access levels with Guest Plans. Collect payments for access to premium Wi-Fi levels. Integrate with existing payments systems for a easy solution.

Drag-and-Drop Splash Page Builder

Create stunning and creative captive portal pages in a matter of minutes. Choose from a variety of social sign in options such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more.

Form Builder

Create and display custom guest surveys on any splash page or guest flow. Collect feedback and gather additional data points to create smarter marketing.

SecurePassâ„¢

Provide the ultimate multi-device management solution for seamless access. Securely manage the connectivity of many devices in many types of environments.

Hotspot Scheduler

Specify days and times that Wi-Fi is available to guests. Hotspot Scheduler offers smarter Wi-Fi control by allowing venues to run their guest Wi-Fi during business hours.

Guest Insights

Comprehensive tool helps to provide key insights from your guests to tell you how to improve business operations and increase customer engagement.

Smart and Scheduled Campaigns

Delight guests and build loyalty with personalized messages using custom codes. Strategically send emails using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.

Guest Flow

Turn guest Wi-Fi into a digital billboard with Guest Flow. Display multiple splash pages to your guests to enhance the captive portal experience and engage with customers.

SMS Marketing

Grow customer engagement, return visits, and purchases with targeted SMS marketing. Strategically send messages using action-based triggers or scheduled campaigns.

Survey Builder

Understanding your guests is the key to better service, smarter marketing, and stronger loyalty. Our advanced survey builder makes it easy to collect valuable feedback and insights—no technical skills required.

Seamless Connectivity

GoZone WiFi makes guest connections simple and automatic—so your customers stay happy, connected, and coming back for more. No more Wi-Fi headaches, just seamless experiences that drive revenue.

We Work With Your Existing Hardware

Don’t be held hostage with hardware hurdles. GoZone offers a wide variety of step-by-step configuration guides that work with your existing Wi-Fi hardware.

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Results-Focused Success

Our team of experts works as an extension of your team and offers a hands-on experience to align with your goals.

gozone WiFi Marketing and Captive Portal support

Dedicated Support Team

More than just another vendor, our team acts as a dedicated partner committed to your community’s success.

gozone Wifi Marketing and Captive portal partnerships

A True Partnership

Leverage our marketing and technical support teams to make getting started and continued success a breeze.

Customized Marketing

We work with communities of all shapes and sizes, and are ready to help you achieve measurable results.

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Integrated Ad Spaces

Ad Space Integrations is a powerful feature for venues who want to promote products, deals and specials, online shopping, loyalty programs and other signups, or third-party advertisers all on a pre-authenticated Splash Page.

Increase impressions and clicks for advertising opportunities by showcasing AdSpaces before requiring a guest to connect to WiFi.

Have an app that needs more downloads? The URL redirect function will navigate guests to the app store specific to their device as soon as they click on the advertisement/call-to-action button.

No more will guests have to wait to connect to WiFi to reach interactive ads. Ad Space Integrations takes Ads4WiFi smart advertising tools and places it our smart marketing environment powered by Marketing4WiFi.

WiFi Payments and Vouchers

Offer premium guest WiFi access and promote WiFi upgrades with comprehensive payment and voucher modules. Payments can be used to offer guests varying speeds of WiFi access, while vouchers are great for venues that want to utilize a captive portal that also requires a voucher code for WiFi access.
WiFi payments and vouchers

Guest Plans

Venues can now offer multiple levels of guest WiFi access with our Guest Plan feature. Guest Plans are defined by specific upload and download speeds and session time limits. Brick-and-mortar businesses can offer guest WiFi access and promote WiFi upgrades with our new payment and voucher modules.

Custom Splash Page Builder

A custom splash page helps give a captive portal the branded look it needs to stand out from the crowd and give guests the peace of mind they’re accessing the network associated with the venue they’re visiting.

Versatile Form Builder

Create and display custom guest surveys on any splash page of your guest flow. Collect feedback and gather additional data points to create smarter marketing.

Hotspot Scheduler

Determine the specific days and times that WiFi is available to guests. Hotspot Scheduler offers smarter WiFi control by allowing venues to run their guest WiFi during business hours.

Enhanced Guest Flow

Guest flow gives venues complete control over the guest WiFi experience. Guest flows help keep a visually pleasing captive portal experience by preventing clutter of multiple marketing assets. Keep it simple, or turn your WiFi into a digital billboard.
WiFi splash page with survey social login

Coupons

Unlock new revenue streams with Smart WiFi’s automated coupon campaigns—create unlimited, customized offers that are instantly delivered to your guests via email or SMS when they connect to your WiFi. Effortlessly boost engagement and drive repeat business, while tracking every redemption to see real results for your venue.

Splash Page Scheduler

Take control of your guest experience with our Splash Page Scheduler! Effortlessly plan and customize splash pages for any day or special event—whether it’s a weekly promotion or a one-time announcement. With flexible scheduling, you’ll always deliver the perfect message to your guests, exactly when it matters most.

How Does OpenRoaming Work?

OpenRoaming is a groundbreaking framework designed to provide seamless and secure Wi-Fi connectivity across multiple networks without the need for users to repeatedly log in or manage credentials. This simplifies user experiences while enhancing security and interoperability. Here’s how OpenRoaming operates:

  1. Automatic Device Authentication: OpenRoaming enables devices to automatically authenticate to participating networks using trusted identity providers, such as service providers, educational institutions, or enterprise systems.
  2. Federated Trust Framework: It leverages a global federation of identity providers and access networks. This ensures secure communication between the user’s device and the Wi-Fi network, allowing for trusted and seamless connections.
  3. Encryption and Security: OpenRoaming employs advanced encryption protocols to ensure secure data transmission and user privacy.
  4. Seamless Handover: When moving between participating networks, OpenRoaming allows for uninterrupted connectivity without requiring users to re-authenticate or reconnect manually.
  5. Standardized Deployment: Networks participating in OpenRoaming adopt a consistent framework, ensuring compatibility and ease of deployment across diverse environments.

Advantages of OpenRoaming

  • Effortless Connectivity: OpenRoaming eliminates the need for repeated logins or managing passwords, delivering a frictionless experience for users.
  • Improved Security: By using identity federation and encryption, OpenRoaming ensures user data is secure, reducing risks associated with public Wi-Fi networks.
  • Global Interoperability: OpenRoaming’s federated framework allows users to connect seamlessly across a vast ecosystem of participating networks, enhancing mobility and convenience.
  • Enhanced User Retention: Businesses benefit from providing an uninterrupted user experience, encouraging longer visits and repeat engagements.

Challenges with OpenRoaming

  • Initial Setup Requirements: Participating networks must implement the OpenRoaming framework, which may involve technical setup and coordination with identity providers.
  • Network Participation: OpenRoaming’s effectiveness depends on widespread adoption by networks and identity providers, limiting availability in areas where participation is low.
  • Compliance and Maintenance: Ensuring compliance with OpenRoaming standards and maintaining infrastructure can require ongoing effort and investment.

OpenRoaming for Businesses

 Businesses that adopt OpenRoaming, which allows guests to connect automatically, gain a competitive advantage by providing a secure and effortless Wi-Fi experience for customers. From improving customer satisfaction to creating opportunities for engagement and loyalty, OpenRoaming transforms Wi-Fi connectivity into a strategic asset. By joining the OpenRoaming ecosystem, businesses can become part of a global network that keeps users connected wherever they go.

How Does CAPPORT Work?

CAPPORT (Captive Portal API) streamlines the process of connecting users to Wi-Fi networks by creating a seamless and user-friendly experience. When a user accesses a CAPPORT-enabled network, they are guided through an efficient flow for authentication and internet access:

  1. Connection Initiation: The user’s device requests internet access when attempting to connect to the network.
  2. DHCP and CAPPORT State Interaction:
    • The device communicates with the DHCP server to obtain an IP address.
    • Along with the IP, the DHCP server provides a URL to the CAPPORT State endpoint.
    • The device queries the endpoint to determine whether it needs redirection to a captive portal.
  3. Captive Portal Engagement: If required, the user is redirected to the portal, where they can complete actions such as accepting terms, entering login credentials, or providing other validation.
  4. Authentication and Access: Upon successful validation, the network grants the user internet access, and redirection ceases for the duration of the session.
  5. Browsing and Session Extension: Users can browse without interruption. CAPPORT also supports seamless session extensions, allowing users to extend their session without re-authentication.

 

This standardized process ensures a smooth connection and consistent user experience across networks and devices..

Advantages of CAPPORT

  • Standardized Connectivity: CAPPORT ensures uniform communication protocols, delivering consistent network behavior and enhancing the user experience.
  • Improved Browsing Experience: Avoids common HTTPS redirection issues, reducing errors and streamlining the login process.
  • Seamless Session Management: Enables session extensions without re-login, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity for users.

Challenges with CAPPORT

  • Implementation Complexity: Setting up CAPPORT requires a robust network infrastructure, which may challenge businesses lacking technical expertise.
  • Local DHCP Server Requirement: CAPPORT relies on a local DHCP server with an API, necessitating specific configurations and potential cost considerations.
  • Device Compatibility: As of 2023, CAPPORT support is not universal, limiting functionality on some devices.

By addressing these challenges, businesses can leverage CAPPORT to enhance connectivity, improve user experiences, and create opportunities for Wi-Fi monetization and marketing.

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Smart WiFi Suite Enterprise Feature Matrix

  • Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure
    Scaleable platforms on the Amazon AWS cloud provides carrier-grade uptime.
  • Multi-Location Data Views
    An aggregated view of your data giving you visibility to all of your locations or drill-down to specific locations.
  • User Access Control
    Allows your administrator to control and limit access, features and data visibility among users.
  • Advanced Captive Portal Engine
    A complete toolset to design and build dynamic captive portals, guest flows and custom privacy controls. Includes our Touchless Menu features.
  • Guest Forms, Vouchers and Payments
    Collect guest data, surveys, on-line or offline payments and offer different access levels.
  • Customized login methods
    Choose how guests are able to access your network including social login, emails and SMS login, advertisements or a combination.
  • Data Export
    Full guest profile export to CSV allowing you to use collected data in third party systems.
  • Detailed Location Data Analytics
    Analyse detailed information about your locations like busy days, busy times and location comparisons.
  • Demographics and Device Information
    Make informed decisions based on detailed demographics and perform location comparisons.
  • Data Sync to other systems/API
    Save time populating other systems as guest profile data can be sent to external systems on timed intervals.
  • Triggered Campaigns
    Engage with your guests without the manual work by creating personalized email, SMS or Twitter campaigns.
  • Coupons and Loyalty
    Increase spend and promote repeat visits by creating incentives for guests or their friends to come back.
  • Import external data
    Bring in contact data from other systems to consolidate your marketing efforts into a single comprehensive platform.
  • Contact segmenting and lists
    Build contact groups to send personalized messages to your guests based on automatic segmentation and your own critera.
  • Scheduled Campaigns
    Communicate with your contacts to drive awareness through email, SMS or Twitter.
  • Traffic Counts and Statistics
    Monitor your venue and events with real-time and recorded traffic counts and patterning.
  • Heatmapping and Traffic Flows
    Visualize crowd density and how people flow in, out and through your venue to see where people congegrate.
  • Alerting and Reporting
    Create automated alerts to help control crowds or to monitor abnormal trends.
  • Intelligent Landing Page Builder
    Simple to create pages that support multiple campaign types and can easily be modified and re-purposed for other venues or events.
  • Campaign Management Tools
    Offer your advertisers options to suit their advertising needs such as A/B testing, ad weights, flexible scheduling and more.
  • Reporting and Attribution
    Analyse detailed information about the campaigns and creatives to get the best campaign targeting.

  • Access


  • Insights


  • Automation


  • Contacts


  • Presence


  • Advertising

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