Project Background
Chengdu is one of the 6 key cities in China which is famous for its tourism. Besides those well-known tourist attractions such as Dujiangyan irrigation, Qingcheng Mountain, Kuanzhai Alleys and Jinli, there are still 31 characterized small ancient-towns around Chengdu attracting many tourists.
Customer Requirements
This project aimed to deploy free Wi-Fi for tourists, merchants and residents in these small ancient-towns, and the scope of deployment would be over 3,000 APs. Wi-Fi signal would completely cover more than 1 square kilometer of central area in each town, and it would extend to other 180 ancient towns in phase II.
This project was to build a Wi-Fi operation platform with unified authentication and management. It would also build video surveillance system to detect tourist traffic in important intersections; meanwhile, over 90 information display terminals would be built in important towns in order to help users to inquire town information, and share their experiences.
Solution of SKSPRUCE
- SAC700E was deployed locally with the roles of DHCP server, portal server and other value-added services.
- ISM private cloud provided a unified management platform, data collection analysis, advertising and other services.
- Multi-service gateway supported 1:1 redundancy, and achieved carrier grade reliability of the entire Wi-Fi network.
- Outdoor APs and video cameras were deployed in each town.
- The user data was forwarded to original operator network.
- The configuration and management of all APs unified with a locally deployed SAC700E.
The project value
- Government: met people's livelihood demand for a beautiful life, improved the image of the government and its effect on governance.
- Stores: accurate marketing services helped merchants enhance business value.
- Tourists: had excellent network service experience, convenient and safe journey, experience of consumption service.
- Carrier: improved the network quality and subscriber stickiness, increased the operation value.
- Operator: collected user data, and realized profit from the value of data operation quickly.