Public Sector & Education
WiFi built for Care Homes & Senior Living
- ✓Simple WiFi for residents and families, not just staff
- ✓Reliable connectivity for nurse call and monitoring systems
- ✓Deploy fully managed so small care teams don't need in-house IT
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Care Homes & Senior Living by the numbers
Challenges & fixes
Residents need WiFi that's genuinely easy, not just technically available
Elderly residents and their families often struggle with typical guest WiFi logins — a captive portal built for a hotel guest doesn't work the same way for someone unfamiliar with smartphones.
- ✓Captive Portal supports simplified, low-friction login flows
- ✓PPSK issues a standing key per resident room instead of repeated logins
- ✓OpenX Gateway keeps sessions persistent so residents don't re-login constantly
Nurse call and monitoring systems can't compete with guest streaming for bandwidth
Family members streaming video calls and shows on the same network as nurse call buttons and health monitoring devices creates a real risk if the network can't prioritize correctly.
- ✓OpenX AAA prioritizes and isolates care system traffic
- ✓OpenX Gateway bandwidth policy protects monitoring systems from guest usage
- ✓OpenX Switch give PoE reliability to nurse call infrastructure
Our solutions
OpenX Gateway is the controller underneath Wifi-Soft's guest and staff networks — hotspot management and AAA authentication in one place, whether you run one site or a few hundred.
OpenX WiFi is the OpenWiFi-based access point firmware behind every Wifi-Soft deployment — Wifi-Soft doesn't manufacture access points. Instead, OpenX WiFi runs on a growing list of supported ODM hardware, so you pick the AP that fits your budget and site instead of being locked into one vendor's box, all managed centrally through OpenX Gateway or OpenX Cloud.
OpenX Switch is built on OpenLAN Switching (OLS) — the Telecom Infra Project initiative that extends OpenWiFi's cloud-native, disaggregated management model to wired switches. Wifi-Soft doesn't manufacture switches: OpenX Switch runs on supported white-box switch hardware with a modern, SONiC-compatible network OS, so your switching layer stays as vendor-neutral as your WiFi already is.
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