Convention Centers
Unwiring the convention center
Opportunity
Conventions and conferences are hotbeds of communication needs. All day long, hundreds or thousands of attendees need to keep in touch with their clients and colleagues while in meetings and trade show halls, even while roaming often vast distances, indoors and out. Attendees also need convenient and immediate access to conference schedules, meeting locations, agenda changes and event information. At the same time, conference administrators need to process thousands of registrants and coordinate presentations, workshops, meetings and food service--all while attending to the needs of presenters and participants. And multiple events may be going on simultaneously in the same building, requiring the partitioning of areas for individual networks.
Objective
Leverage existing wired networks by quickly and inexpensively installing wireless access throughout your conference center’s open areas, conference rooms, lounges, and even large vehicles parked outside containing media-related and other conference equipment. The benefits, in a business that relies on communication as its mainstay, can be huge and immediate.
For Administrators in the Wireless Convention Center
- Wired and wireless communications can be made available across a multi-building complex, from the main structure, tradeshow halls to portable rooms to the trucks outside and more.
- Temporary networks can be set up in a few hours; make it easy and economical to put-up, tear down, and relocate networks to best suit each conference.
- Long lines at the registration counters can be alleviated by temporary wireless registration kiosks.
- Administrators can stay in touch with staff at all times, no matter what their location, for faster responses to problems as they arise.
- It’s easy to accommodate structural changes to the physical environment, including moving walls and increasing or decreasing the sizes of open areas. It’s also easy to adapt to portable rooms and outdoor trucks serving the convention.
- For significant savings, adding wireless communications makes any convention center significantly more attractive to organizations planning future events.
For Atendees in the Wireless Convention Center
- Attendees can stay on schedule by registering at temporary wireless registration kiosks.
- Attendees can be kept informed about schedule or agenda changes, workshop locations, food service, receptions, special entertainment and other conference events by simply checking the conference intranet for updates.
- Attendees can easily keep in touch with the office all day long, make travel plans, dinner re s e rvations and more, from any location, via their own laptops or PDAs.
Outside the Wireless Convention Center
- Wired and wireless communications can be made available from the main structure to portable rooms to the trucks outside.
- It’s easy to accommodate growing demands of the physical environment, with easily adapted portable rooms and outdoor t rucks serving the convention.