Maritime WiFi service for
cruise ships,
vessels, ferries…
Nowadays, a fast and reliable WiFi signal is expected everywhere, even on
the sea. Excellent WiFi is essential for any maritime vessel, cruise ship, yacht, or transport vessel.
CloudGate Enterprise WiFi system provides you with both advanced WiFi network control and a reliable
connection with all the guests.
When a WiFi network is assembled and access points installed in a planned manner, our system will ensure
excellent WiFi to the passengers and crew.
Our system can provide reliable WiFi management of the crew devices, set limits on the WiFi usage, and
provide either free or paid subscription in order to carefully manage expenses.
How Maritime WiFi works?
CloudGate platform integrates with WiFi hardware (APs, controllers)
located on each ship and vessel, and controls WiFi usage. Using devices like Cradlepoint, ships, and vessels
can failover between Starlink, VSAT, 4G/5G, and direct WiFi connection where available.
While docked, ports WiFi Internet connection can be used as the least expensive Internet source. After
leaving the port, 4G/5G can be used within range. At the sea, the connection will failover to the satellite.
Administrators can manage all crew and passenger accounts remotely, while the system automatically manages
all connections, deducts used bandwidth and time, and takes care of the payments for WiFi plan upgrades.
Maritime WiFi Features
New-gen
software with radius APs/routers
Control
smartphones, tablets, laptops
Manage
bandwidth, download and upload
Runs in a
dedicated server/VM or in cloud
Customize
Splash pages for each ship/vessel
Collect
customer satisfaction surveys
Create
vouchers with custom Internet plans
Accept credit
cards for WiFi plans
Web Customer
Portal
Automatic
Emails for marketing
Social login:
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…
Auto-login
users to increase ease of use
Tiered
Internet plans with limits/pricing
Collect
customer data for marketing
Get real-time
statistics and usage reports
WiFi
marketing with Video ads & emailing
Manage
multiple ships/vessels/yachts
API
Integration & Automation
Internet Plans
Guest Internet access will be limited by Internet plan (download/upload),
time, quota, expiration time, number of devices that can be connected.
If a guest needs higher speed, you can offer paid access posting the Internet plan charges to the guest
room.
Tiered plans may be configured to limit daily or monthly usage, while the crew can refill an account
with a credit card or voucher.
In case of free access, the Internet can be allowed for a specific time or date and the user might need
to wait a defined interval before getting a new slot.
Expensive satellite and 4G connections needs to be carefully managed
at
the sea or at the ports.
Our system can provide reliable WiFi management of the crew devices, set limits on the WiFi usage
and
provide either free or paid subscription in order to carefully manage expenses.
While at the sea, the system can grant defined Internet limits at
specific prices that correlate to the Startlink / VSAT cost.
At the ports, the system will use 4G/5G to share the Internet to the vessel crew.
Monthly/Daily Bandwidth Limits
Easily configure monthly or daily usage for desired accounts.
Limitations can be applied in different ways:
• using the Internet plan
• configure each account individually
You can set total bandwidth traffic available for Internet usage on a monthly basis. When all monthly
bandwidth is used, a user can purchase upgrade.
Additionally, you can configure available bandwidth for daily use or just limit the user session daily
time.
Centralized WiFi management
CloudGate Maritime WiFi system can be managed from any device, anywhere.
Our intuitive interface helps you configure users, wifi locations, splash pages, plans, access analytics
or create new ads.
You may create sub-admins for desired locations with partial access privileges to the management portal.
User access tickets can be created and printed in bulk amounts with configurable Internet speeds.
APs can be easily replaced with a spare one in case of any hardware error by changing associated MAC
address.
WiFi Tickets App helps you print tickets for your guests,
visitors, and users to connect to your WiFi
network.
Print vouchers or users/pass tickets
Provide tickets with different Internet plans
Print vouchers for new customer signups
Provide vouchers for a user account refill
Sell Vouchers for WiFi access billing
Create resellers and share profit from ticket sales