Amigopod - Visitor Management

Feature Breakdown Corporate Guest Access Solution Public WiFi Access Solution

The Amigopod family of Visitor Management Appliances (VMA) – available as hardware or software – tightly integrate into existing network equipment and broadband Internet connections to enable a simple and centralised system, based on a RADIUS database, for managing visitors to your network. Amigopod delivers cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions for managing visitor access to your enterprise and providing a “next-generation hotspot” for public access.

With the explosion in demand for network access by mobile employees/visitors, the general public and business travellers, the private and public sector are increasingly looking for simplified ways to add value, stay competitive and relevant. Amigopod provides a series of highly customisable visitor management solutions designed to integrate with the existing network access infrastructure in both corporate and public access deployments.

Amigopod solutions have been deployed to support a wide range of Visitor Management applications. The unique plugin architecture and ability to provide customised branding has ensured that customers across all industry sectors are continuing to realise the benefits enabled by this solution to their organisations.

Amigopod VMA’s provide:

• Secure, centralised, visitor access management, maintaining existing network security policies
• Simple role-based account creation and management features
• Unique consistent user experience through full customer branding and access device recognition
• Management level reporting of visitor access data, usage and performance
• Next generation hotspot & Interactive marketing platform; self-registration, advertising, merchant billing
• Unrivalled vital capture of visitor intelligence with rich location/brand specific reporting
• Promotion of premium and value added services to build end user loyalty.

• CORPORATE – Guests, Visitor & Contractor access
• RETAIL – Shopping centres & Retail chains, Targeted outlet promotions, Customer loyalty schemes
• SPORTING VENUES – VIP/Press/Public access, Conferences, Event promotion, Loyalty schemes
• EDUCATION – Student & Visitor access, Seminars, Events and services promotion
• HOTELS & HOSPITALITY- PMS integration, scratch cards/SMS receipts
• HOSPITALS – Patients & Visitors access, Information and guidance promotion
• LOCAL GOVERNMENT – Public access, Community information streams

Corporate Guest Access:

Where guest access in corporate environments still lacks a well-defined process, Amigopod VMAs bring corporate grade security and auditing to guests and contractors through a simple and effective process. The logical role-based account creation makes it easy for receptionists or secretaries to manage the day to day task of generating visitor accounts through an intuitive and personalised web interface or configure self-provisioning captive portals. The IT department benefits from saved resources, safe in the knowledge that Amigopod communicates with existing network security devices, either wired or wireless, to ensure compliance with company security policy. End users benefit from fast and easy access, which improves efficiency and productivity. Management gains reporting functionality which provides them with useful information regarding the number of users, bandwidth use, etc.

Public Access:

In the public access space, where traditional hotspot providers in sectors such as retail, leisure, health and hospitality are looking for the next generation hotspot model, Amigopod products provide an interactive marketing platform using free wireless as the market driver. This allows clients to offer value added and premium services directly to customers and build end user loyalty while gathering vital visitor intelligence. With Amigopod, customers can manage a next generation hotspot offering self-registration, merchant billing, advertising services and rich location/brand specific reporting. Amigopod also offers a series of individual software modules called plugins which can be used to add extra features and functionality to the core visitor management solution and create a unique web application. For example, the Amigopod Skin Plugin enables the customer's branding to be applied to the user interface for a consistent look and feel, ensuring amigopod becomes an invisible but invaluable tool providing enhanced functionality for any corporate or public access network.