Quartier de Naperville Park

Monétisation du Wi-Fi public pour aider les municipalités

Created by referendum in 1966, the Naperville, Illinois Park District is an independent municipal agency serving the recreation needs of its residents. The Naperville Park District’s mission is to provide recreation and park experiences that promote healthy lives, healthy minds and a healthy community.

The District maintains and operates more than 2 400 acres with 137 parks and facilities and provides more than 1 500 recreational, arts and environmental programs and special events annually. Included within the District’s operations are two championship golf courses; a multitude of playgrounds, trails, athletic courts and sports fields; Fort Hill Activity Center; Knoch Knolls Nature Center; two inline skating and skateboarding facilities; the Millennium Carillon; a paddleboat quarry; historic Centennial Beach; and the beautiful Riverwalk.

The Challenge

La couverture wireless dans de nombreux parcs était insuffisante ou inexistante. Face à des demandes fréquentes de Wi-Fi dans ses installations de loisirs et de plein air, le quartier s’est tourné vers le Wi-Fi pour deux de ses parcs les plus populaires, Centennial Beach et Rotary Hill. Le devis initial était de 72 000 $ pour l’équipement et le service Wi-Fi pour la première année seulement, une somme qui dépassait largement le financement disponible ; d’autant plus que, d’après les prévisions, seulement 4 000 appareils seraient utilisés pendant les trois mois d’été au cours desquels l’installation aquatique est la plus fréquentée.

Prérequis
  • The initial quote for just two parks was much higher than expected, and more than the Park District could pay. They decided to look for solutions that could reduce or offset the cost.
Solutions
  • Expanded the initial deployment from two parks to eight in order to create a critical mass of end users
  • Provided a turn key end to end managed Wi-Fi service featuring RUCKUS® indoor and outdoor APs managed by a SmartZone controller
  • Implemented an innovative, multi-dimensional advertising model that fully funded the Naperville Park District Wi-Fi and operating costs
Avantages
  • Naperville Park District patrons are able to spend more time at the park since they can stay connected via Wi-Fi
  • The service was deployed at no cost to tax payers
  • The RUCKUS Wi-Fi can easily be extended via meshing and can also support IP video and other applications
  • Powerful Wi-Fi analytics provide new insights to park management to optimize schedule and resource utilization, and to enhance program marketing activities
  • Planning on expanding Wi-Fi services to more parks this year
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