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Smart Cities
Public spaces, libraries, cultural centres, sports centres…: a new Wi-Fi service for residents and tourists, and a direct digital channel to reach them.
Wi-Fi for a smarter city
Digital inclusion is now a priority: cities want to become smart cities by offering digital services and better understanding how their residents behave.
With Octopus Wifi you can offer secure public Wi-Fi across your municipality, communicate with residents and visitors, and manage all your municipal facilities from a single platform.
How the Octopus Wifi platform helps you
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Connectivity and security
- A new connectivity service in your town or city for residents and tourists, and an incentive to encourage the use of public spaces.
- User account management with self-registration and confirmation, to verify users’ identities.
- Integration with the residents’ database.
- Management of connectivity for IoT devices deployed throughout the town or city.
- Content filtering, so users cannot access unwanted or malicious content.
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Marketing
- Enrich your residents’ information and gather data from tourists and visitors.
- A new digital channel for communicating with residents.
- Engage with residents and automate the sending of announcements and news about the town or city.
- Satisfaction surveys to rate public services.
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Management
- Manage each facility independently, such as libraries, cultural centres, parks and squares, with separate or aggregated statistics.
- Flexible permissions to access the platform for different public sector employees.
- Full visibility and connection logs for everything connected to the network.
- Legal guarantee: connection traceability through custom queries when required by a court order, and a record of each user’s consents for the use of personal data.
- WiFi4EU: compliant with the portal requirements and the grant agreement.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Octopus Wifi platform meet the requirements of the European WiFi4EU programme?
Yes. The platform is adapted to meet all the technical requirements for the portal, visual identity and grant agreement that the European WiFi4EU programme sets for municipalities.
Can different municipal facilities be managed independently?
Yes. You can manage multiple locations, such as libraries, parks, squares, sports and cultural centres, individually or together, with separate statistics and flexible access permissions for public sector employees.
What are the benefits for communicating with residents and for municipal security?
It works as a new digital channel to send municipal announcements and service surveys, and to collect data from tourists. On the cybersecurity side, it includes DNS filtering of malicious content, control of urban IoT devices and connection traceability when required by a court order, with the consent records required by the GDPR.
Connect to Octopus, connect to the Wi-Fi of the future
Tell us what your municipality needs and a specialist will help you offer secure public Wi-Fi that brings you closer to your residents.