Patients stay for days, families wait for hours, and every one of them expects WiFi. Here is how hospitals give patients and visitors reliable internet without letting it near the clinical network.
A hospital already runs a clinical network: the hospital information system, lab and imaging systems, nurse-call, billing and, increasingly, connected medical devices. The guest network for patients and visitors has to sit completely apart from it - a separate network on the same cables (VLANs), with a firewall between them that lets nothing from the guest side through.
iberry runs the guest side: the login page, the limits, the records and the firewall rules that keep it apart. We do not manage medical devices or your hospital information system, and we do not need access to them.
Printed with the admission papers, valid for the expected stay and extendable at the desk. Ends at discharge.
Visitors log in with a one-time code sent to their mobile, valid for a few hours. Where SMS routes need confirming abroad, a short visitor voucher does the same job.
Doctors, nurses and admin staff on their own personal logins for internet use, separate from the clinical systems.
A speed cap and device limit per login, so a long-stay patient streaming films does not slow the visitors' lounge.
Adult and malicious sites blocked on the guest network - a hospital is a family space. See web filtering.
Which login, which device, when and how much - available when the police or an auditor ask. In India, kept to the 180-day CERT-In period. See WiFi log compliance.
Thick walls, lead-lined imaging rooms and long corridors mean wards need more access points than the floor plan suggests. Private rooms in concrete buildings often need one per room or per two rooms.
The busiest WiFi in a hospital is in outpatient waiting halls: dense, short visits. Plan these like a small event hall.
Families spend hours here. Outdoor access points can cover a garden or drop-off area.
Residents live there, so their WiFi works like a home's: a personal login per resident that does not expire, and a simpler visitor code.
Running a medical college or a campus with hostels as well? See hostel, PG and campus WiFi. In India our own engineers survey and install. Elsewhere a local electrician or IT partner fits the cabling and access points to our plan, and iberry configures, monitors and changes everything remotely.
Yes, if it is a separate network. Patient and visitor WiFi runs on its own VLAN with a firewall between it and the clinical network, guest devices are isolated from each other, and nothing on the guest side can reach the hospital information system or medical devices.
Most now do, and patients increasingly choose hospitals by it. Long-stay patients use it for video calls with family, work and entertainment; it also cuts the number of visitors asking staff for help.
Yes. A voucher per bed or admission is issued for the expected stay, can be extended at the desk, and is cancelled or simply expires at discharge.
No. iberry runs the patient and visitor WiFi and the separation from your clinical network. Your clinical systems stay with your IT team or vendor.
Published plans in India start at ₹30,000 one-time with ₹15,000 yearly maintenance; outside India every project is quoted on its own, because the hardware is usually bought locally.
Tell us the number of beds, floors and buildings, the waiting areas and your internet line, and whether you already have access points. We will plan the guest network around your clinical one.
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