York City Wifi Project

1. City Centre WiFi
Mark Lowe – Strategic Director
24th February 2016

2. Brief Introduction
• Long History - 30 successful years in business
• £13m Revenue
• 95 employees – UK Wide Locations
• Pinacl hold the Silver Investors in People (IIP) Accreditation
• Our mantra : Big enough to deliver, small enough to care
• This makes us Flexible, Dynamic and Agile, whilst retaining best practises:
• British Standards commitment, ISO9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001
• Prince II project methodology
• ITIL Service Desk and NOC 24x7
• Enterprise wireless specialists for 20 years with multi vendor experience:
• Ruckus, Cisco, Meraki, Xirrus, HP, Meru, Aruba
• Strategic alignment to Ruckus and Cisco (& Meraki)
• Certification and accreditations
• Network specialists – Cisco, HP
• Understanding of networking critical in any wireless deployment:
• Design, troubleshooting, ongoing operation
• Security specialists for all public sector compliance

3. Public WiFi

4. York – The WiFi City

5. Commercial WiFi & Pinacl?
• We have already deployed two:
• City of York Council
• Newport City Council
• Another is being agreed for a pilot:
• Aberdeen City Council
• Pinacl’s learning curve
• How easy to generate revenues – wrong
• Where to generate revenues – wrong
• Marketing commitment, Council involvement key
• Our goals
• Sustainable and ethical
• Solutions need to first pay for themselves
• Make a modest profit
• Profit share
• The Pinacl ‘Alliance Partners’
• Marketing agencies, Digital Advertising, Small Cell Solutions
• We will only provide mutual commitment contracts

6. CityConnect WiFi Portal
• High Availability, Resilient & Scalable Solution
– Amazon Cloud
• Ease of User Access
– User Login options:- Social media, manual form
• Security & Content Filtering
– User Authentication/logging
• Comply with legislation
– Purple WiFi, members of IWF
– Friendly WiFi certification (RDI Online)
• Commercial Options
– Sponsorship
– Advertising
– Target marketing

7. Commercial WiFi