Source: https://frontierbv.nl/case-studies-en/dagelijks-leven-en/?lang=en
Dagelijks Leven is working throughout the Netherlands on the realization of small-scale residential care centers right in the neighborhood with the right specialized care. The small-scale residential care locations are found throughout the Netherlands and there are more to come.
Our Peplink partner, Negotica offered them an affordable and automated solution to reduce the fixed costs. Negotica is a Dutch system integrator and developer of smart building, energy and healthcare solutions. Combining and cleverly cooperating products in the domotics market, building and care world is what characterize them.
Challenges
The goal is to deliver a reliable WiFi network for their home automation equipment and evacuation plan with a guaranty that enough bandwidth is available for the system and for the employees and residents. It was important that both of these networks won’t interfere with each other.
Solutions
To deliver a reliable WiFi network Negotica choose the Pepwave AP One Enterprise as WiFi solution.
Benefits
With the AP One Enterprise we managed to reduce the fixed costs of Dagelijks Leven. By providing a complete automated system there are less employees needed in the small-scale residential care centers.
“So far, we have applied our Peplink solution at 24 locations of ‘Daily Life’, with each location having at least 6 access points.”Previous
WiFi in the care center
The care locations are pleasant, detached houses with a spacious garden. Here, people with dementia, Alzheimer or other forms of memory loss can live like home, in a cozy, familiar environment, close to family and friends.
Dagelijks Leven offers them a safe, trusted and social place where attention and quality of life comes first. Living with intensive care for people with memory loss can be better, more experience and more quality at lower costs. They realize this by associating good employees, realizing beautiful locations and organizing efficiently and effectively.
Negotica with a winning solution
In the care centers sensors have been placed to measure and map out the behavior of the residents. If a resident opens the door it will trigger the sensor and this data will be send over WiFi to the server where it all comes together on Negotica’s software. Alerts will be visible on the dashboard and employees will receive the alerts over WiFi on their smartphones.
To deliver a reliable WiFi network Negotica choose the Pepwave AP One Enterprise as WiFi solution. The simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi on the AP One Enterprise gives you two independent networks (5GHz and 2.4GHz) that work together, so all the devices can connect without clashing.
This way both of these networks won’t interfere with each other where employees have a stable connection for their alerts and residents can enjoy using their devices without losing their internet connection.
AP One access points support up to 16 SSIDs, each with independent bandwidth limits and web blocking. Ideally if you want to have control over the bandwidth and usage in the care centers.
In an average care center 6 à 7 AP One Enterprise are placed for the whole coverage. The plenum-rated, flame-resistant AP One Enterprise is designed with ceiling mount, so it fits just about anywhere in the care centers. With 802.3af PoE input – you can say farewell to power cables.
With the AP One Enterprise we managed to reduce the fixed costs of Dagelijks Leven. By providing a complete automated system there are less employees needed in the small-scale residential care centers.