Case study: easyHotspot coffeeshop, restaurant or hotel


easyHotspot is perfect solution for coffeeshops, restaurants, hotels and other public spaces where there are occasional visitors who want access to the Internet wirelessly or via cable. easyHotspot provides their access to the Internet secure, easy and quick without the need for specific knowledge of your staff.


Applications


Most coffeeshops and restaurants want to offer its customers free Internet wireless access. To provide this service, you also need control on wireless access for several reasons:
  • A location needs to ensure that only their customers are their wireless connection, not also the customers of coffeeshops and restaurants nearby.
  • the free wireless connection also means is impossible to identify user, which may give him the opportunity of using access to attacks on other Internet sites, electronic fraud, other crimes for which the connection owner could be liable.
In general, free Internet access service through wireless connection is implemented in one of the following:
  • access is unrestricted, no password and no encryption. The advantage is that any connection is easy and transparent, without the need for additional knowledge from users or your staff. The downside is obvious, ie all computers within a radius of 100-200 meters around the site can get free Internet access through your equipment, and your connection.
  • restricted using encryption key (WEP, WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK). The advantage is that you control who connects to your access-point, but is a relative advantage because any wireless can be decrypted using specialized software. The timeframe for decrypting is not given by the password complexity but the amount of traffic, the more traffic the faster the decryption. Once decrypted, the connection may be used by computers in the vicinity of location (see above). Disadvantage is that your staff should be enrolled for specific settings for different types of user equipment.
As you can see, all options have drawbacks, and as of IT security and access control there either are no implementation or there is only a false and ineffective or complicated in terms of management solution.


Optimization and securing using easyHotspot


easyHotspot address precisely these situations, enabling the easy use and no need for specific level knowledge of your employees, as well as a maximum security control connections all over your visitors.

Also, you will get significant advantage due to the elegance of the solution.

easyhotspot for restaurants and coffeeshops

Thus, easyHotspot equipment will replace the existing gateway connecting directly to your Internet connection. Your client will follow three simple steps to access unbundled Internet:
  • Any connection to the wireless network will be redirected to a page the customer will be required an access code and will provide information about how to obtain that access code (the waiter, bartender, receptionist, telephone, reception, a.s.o.).
  • Following customer demand and using an unique user name and password, your staff will generate an access code. Access codes are generated according to different categories and can provide access for various time periods.
  • Custome will enter the access code and then can use Internet connection.
The system can be configured for paid Internet access packages and mixed (both free and paid packages), is up to you how have them.

You will be able to view traffic reports, the number of connections per interval time, other summary which among others can also provide better management and better business planning coffeeshop or restaurant.