Tag Archives: San Francisco Wireless Solutions

Hospitality Wireless Solutions

What are business and vacation travelers looking for the minute they arrive at a hotel.. The quality of the wireless network. Guests with mobile devices are ever increasing the demand for ubiquitous coverage, stable connections, consistence performance and network bandwidth.

Oceano Hotel and Spa
Oceano Hotel and Spa

The Oceano Hotel and Span in Half Moon Bay understands the need for guest internet services and contacted SF WiFi for a wireless solution.
Oceano Hotel and Spa, Half Moon Bay’s premier luxury hotel, is a place to bask in the exquisite beauty of the Northern California Coast. Situated right beside Pillar Point Harbor, Oceano features magnificent views of the coast, incredible harbor sunsets, and lavish accommodations.
This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms, meeting rooms and common areas. Design challenges included supporting a large capacity of users in the ballrooms and meeting rooms. Also the spacious rooms and layout offered coverage challenges.
Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, capacity and ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports over 50 San Francisco Bay area hospitality wireless networks.
Not just limited to downtown San Francisco SF WiFi also has wireless clients in Santa Cruz, Oakland and most of the bay area tourist hot spots.
SF WiFi also supports enterprise business clients, apartment wireless, site surveys and continued support.

July – Whew!

July has been a busy month for SF WiFi. Our July projects included:

Downtown San Francisco Point to Point bridge
Big Box store (unnamed) wireless site survey
Parking garage wireless installation supporting POS wireless applications
Hotel wireless installations (several)
Enterprise wireless installation
Support to all of our existing clients

Also attended the WordPress 2013.

Downtown Berkeley Public Wifi

The Downtown Berkeley Association represents downtown property owners and venues, merchants and organizations. The DBA contacted SF Wifi for the installation of a public wireless network at the Shattuck Avenue outdoor plaza. The outdoor plaza is located at the Shattuck BART station and is home to  shops, restaurants, business and outdoor markets.

Project description:
The DBA wanted to upgrade the user experience at the plaza so that anyone with a wifi enabled laptop or mobile device can log into the free public wireless network.

Features:
Extended outdoor wireless coverage, managing per user bandwidth, system stats reporting guest usage, secure, high user capacity and interference avoidance from neighboring wireless networks.

Solution:SF WiFi designed and installed a wireless network offering high speed internet access and simple system monitoring. This system also offered a hot spot portal to redirect users to a “what’s new” web page for event announcements.

Shattuck BART Plaza

The Economy Inn – San Francisco

The Economy Inn Lombard St San Francisco

The Inn commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network. This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms, pool and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, capacity  and ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 10 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.

The omnipresence of wireless networks is here to stay and the appeal of smartphones and tablets is undeniable. Tech-savvy consumers are buying mobile devices in record quantities and now more than ever demand that same sense of flexibility and ease-of-use at Hot Spots.

Recognizing this need, SF WiFi is currently offering a low cost solution for Bay Area hoteliers, property managers and apartment owners who need to provide reliable and secure mobile internet access for their clients.

Contact SF WiFi for more details

iPhone 5 and 5GHz

iPhone 5 will support 5GHz wifi – That has us excited.

What is 5GHz Wi-Fi?
5GHz is the “other frequency” that Wi-Fi client radios can use, besides 2.4GHz, to connect to an access point or hotspot. This will increase network user capacity and throughput. No presentation is complete without graphics:

802.11g,n has become a crowded network
5ghz more channels – capacity and speed

Recent Project: Sanctuary Beach Resort – Marina California

The Sanctuary Beach Resort is Monterey Bay’s most prestigious coastal retreat. This haven of serenity offers its guests stunning views of the sparkling Pacific Ocean, the undulating sand dunes and spectacular coastline from every viewpoint. The resort commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network.

This project entails wireless network design and installation for the properties 20 guest buildings. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage and ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 7 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.

Recent Project: Red Cottage Inn Menlo Park

The Red Cottage Inn & Suites is conveniently located within minutes of world-renowned Stanford University and prestigious downtown Palo Alto

The Inn commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network. This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms, pool and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, capacity  and ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 7 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.

Outdoor Seating area

Recent Project – Ocean Park Motel

The Ocean Park Motel is located in the Sunset district of San Francisco just blocks from the San Francisco Zoo and Ocean Beach.

The Ocean Park commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network. This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user.
SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 7 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.

Recent Projects – Travelodge by The Bay

The Travelodge by The Bay is located just 5 blocks from Fisherman’s Wharf, 2 blocks from the Cable Cars and The Crookedest Street in the World

The Travelodge commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network. This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 6 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.Travelodge by the Bay

Wireless Trending

We’ve read many articles this week about wireless offloading–802.11ac, 802.11u, in general, the future of wireless. This caught us reflecting on our clients’ wireless progressions.

We have a hotel client in San Francisco supporting wireless at their 16 story/120 room property. In the past year alone we have seen their guest wireless usage increase to more than double.

In 2011 we would see stats of 20-25 users passing 8GB of data. We now see 80 concurrently connected devices, passing 25-40GB of data a day. That’s practically a four fold increase of data in just a little over a year and these numbers are consistent across all our wireless hotel clients.

Our Take on Wireless Trending:
User capacity increases: mobile device driven
Bandwidth usage increases: video driven
Cell phone offloading: hasn’t occurred too much, this is the next trend
Coverage: everywhere. WiFi is not just in the lobby anymore
User expectations: system uptime, stability, ease of use, free
Customer expectations: coverage, stability, support WMM (data voice video),
Management features: simple dashboard view of system and usage stats.