Wireless coverage project for five-star hotels along the Hanchuan Lake in Hubei Province​

With the rapid development of current mobile networks, tablets, smartphones, notebooks and other devices have become widely used. As a temporary residence for business travelers and tourists, hotels have become an integral part of hotel services.

1. The demand analysis for wireless coverage in large hotels is as follows:

a The hotel has a relatively regular layout, which requires full wireless coverage in each guest room and no blind spots;

b It needs to be able to automatically switch access points during the movement of wireless terminals and keep the network offline, that is, wireless roaming;

c The hotel should be decorated with high-end decoration, and the AP should be beautiful in appearance and need to support PoE power supply to meet fire protection and wiring requirements;

d AP supports unified management and configuration, and real-time monitoring of the working status of each AP, making operation and maintenance simple;

2. Installation and deployment

The lobby is relatively empty with few obstructions. Ceiling APs can cover a diameter of 20 meters in an open environment. Small and medium-sized hotel lobbies can arrange 2-3 APs according to the specific structure. Large hotel lobbies can add more as appropriate, as shown in the figure below. :

Lobby AP layout

The hotel restaurant is relatively empty with few obstructions. It can be deployed as appropriate according to the size of the restaurant and the coverage of ceiling-mounted APs. The points are evenly distributed, as shown in the following figure:

Restaurant AP layout

Guest rooms have a dense access environment and many wall barriers, which cause relatively large attenuation of wireless signals. It is recommended to deploy one panel AP in each room. As shown below:

Guest room AP deployment

3. Features of the plan

The solution requires the use of commercial wireless products to achieve coverage, and deployment using wireless AP controller AC and FIT AP. It has the following characteristics:

High availability: The AP uses professional antennas with linearly adjustable transmit power. The AP transmit power can be reasonably adjusted according to the actual environment to meet the coverage needs of different areas.

Flexible roaming: FIT AP wireless deployment architecture allows different APs to transmit the same SSID. When wireless terminals move between different APs in the same VLAN, they can quickly switch between different APs to achieve fast cross-AP Layer 2 roaming.

Easy to deploy: The AP supports 802.3af standard PoE network cable power supply, which can directly replace the original network panel without rewiring, does not destroy the original decoration of the room, and is simple to construct.

Ease of management: FTT APs are uniformly managed by the wireless controller AC, which automatically discovers and manages APs in a unified manner. The AP running status can be viewed in real time to facilitate network management and maintenance. 

The following is an analysis of wireless coverage solutions for large hotels based on actual cases.

4. Project Introduction

Hubei Hanchuan Binhu Hotel is the leading five-star hotel in Hanchuan City. The hotel is strategically located to the west of Hanchuan Passenger Terminal, echoing the Municipal Party and Government Office Building, Hanchuan No. 1 Middle School, Municipal People’s Hospital, etc. It is Landmark hotel project in Hanchuan City. Hotel design and decoration    The style is fashionable, novel and majestic. It integrates accommodation, catering, leisure, entertainment and health care. It has 19 floors above ground and 1 floor of underground parking. There are a total of 229 single rooms, standard rooms, business suites, luxury suites, and theme rooms; 6 banquet halls of various types that can accommodate 100-600 people at the same time, 6 luxury private rooms for Chinese food, and special restaurants, Large, medium and small multi-functional conference rooms, constant temperature swimming pool, cinema, KTV, gym, VR experience hall, chess and card room, foot massage club, etc.

5. User needs

a requires full coverage of rooms, elevators, public spaces, and front desks without blind spots, and stable signals

b can provide a large number of people with access to the Internet,

c requires cloud management to ensure seamless roaming, load balancing, and automatic power adjustment.

d. Equipment selection requires well-known domestic brands, conforms to international standards, industry standards and other relevant standards, and product performance is stable.

e is stable and reliable, with guaranteed after-sales service.

Shenzhen Fengrunda Technology Co., Ltd. provides product and solution support for this project

6. Scheme topology diagram

Wireless coverage topology

Equipment selection

The wireless coverage project of Hanchuan Binhu Hotel adopts Fengrunda’s overall wireless coverage solution to ensure network stability and reliability.

The AP controller is Fengrunda AC100, and Fengrunda cloud management platform can manage thousands of wireless APs and supports cloud remote viewing of AP status. It is convenient, fast, simple to operate, and free to use .

Ceiling AP RD-W60AP. 300M wireless rate, maximum 100mW power, good wall penetration effect. A single AP can satisfy 30 wireless clients to access the Internet.

The elevator network bridge RD-S350CPE saves the material cost of elevator dedicated lines, saves labor costs, and shortens the construction period.

7. Program features

a RD-W60AP perfectly solves the wireless coverage needs of five-star hotels.

b All WiFi signals have a unified SSID to achieve wireless roaming.

c Implement port isolation to prevent ARP attacks and loop protection.

d. The entire WI-FI design solution is cost-effective and easy to manage and maintain.

e The high-standard solution design enables WiFi coverage in the entire hotel without blind spots.

f RD-S350CPE wireless bridge comprehensively solves elevator monitoring problems.

8. Customer value

a Meets customer needs: This wireless coverage project can provide stable and comprehensive wireless WiFi coverage for hotel public spaces and rooms. Moreover, the wireless WiFi coverage project provided by Fengrunda can ensure that multiple people are online at the same time, and can also ensure the smoothness of their Internet access and provide them with stable wireless WiFi services. Wireless bridge makes the elevator no longer a blind spot for hotel monitoring.

b Fengrunda’s cost-effective WiFi solution ensures that users’ wireless networks are safe, stable and fast. Fengrunda cloud platform realizes AP intelligent management.

c Helps customers achieve the unification of wireless SSIDs, which greatly improves users’ online experience and facilitates customers’ scientific management of wireless WiFi.

d. The overall network operates smoothly and quickly. The services provided by Fengrunda far exceed the initial needs of customers for our company.