Free WiFi in a market, a library, a bus stand or a temple courtyard is easy to switch on and hard to run well. Here is what a public WiFi network needs - identity, fair use, records and someone watching it - and how iberry provides it.
A hotel knows its guests. A public hotspot does not: anyone in range can join, most stay for minutes, and a few will try to misuse it. So public WiFi needs three things a home router does not have - a login that identifies each user, limits that stop any one person taking the line, and a record of every session that can be produced when the police ask.
In India, public WiFi has to verify users: the Department of Telecommunications' direction on public Wi-Fi describes a login by one-time password sent to the user's mobile, with the number kept as their identity. Under PM-WANI, public data offices work through a registered provider. iberry is a registered PM-WANI PDOA and PDO - see PM-WANI.
Markets, parks, civic centres and city squares, run from one dashboard with per-site limits and usage reports.
Member or visitor logins, time limits per day, and filtering suited to a public, family space.
Short free sessions for waiting passengers, with a cap that keeps the line usable at rush hour. See also airport WiFi.
Free WiFi for pilgrims and visitors, with adult content blocked and limits that suit festival crowds.
Visitor WiFi with a login page in the site's own branding and languages, at the gate, café and gardens.
Free WiFi as a draw for shoppers, with a time limit per day per mobile number.
SMS OTP to the user's mobile where the country's SMS route is confirmed; printed vouchers or PINs everywhere else. No social media login and no email capture.
Free time per mobile number per day, a speed cap per user and a device limit, all set per site.
Users isolated from each other, adult and malicious sites blocked, and the hotspot kept apart from any office or CCTV network on site. See web filtering.
Mobile number or voucher, device, IP address, login and logout times and data used for every session, sent to iberry's log servers in India over an encrypted tunnel. See WiFi log compliance.
Every site's router is watched from the iberry cloud; a dead line or a failed access point is seen before anyone complains.
Hardware is MikroTik, TP-Link Omada or Ubiquiti UniFi, with outdoor-rated access points where needed. 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.
By a one-time password sent to their mobile number, which becomes their identity for that session, or by a printed voucher or PIN. Each login gets its own time, speed and device limits.
Yes, with user verification and records. The DoT direction on public Wi-Fi requires users to be identified - an SMS OTP login does that - and records to be kept. Public data offices can also run under PM-WANI through a registered PDOA; iberry is one.
Yes. Every hotspot connects to the iberry cloud, so a hundred sites are run from one dashboard with per-site limits, reports and monitoring. Each site still needs its own internet line and access points.
The login page can carry the city's or a sponsor's branding and notices. iberry does not sell user data or capture emails for marketing.
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 places, how many people pass through each, and the internet available there. See also how to start a WiFi hotspot business.
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