The City Council of Serón opts for a wireless IP network to manage security services

This town in Almería has joined the so-called Club of Smart Municipalities thanks to the project developed by Next Comunicaciones with the technology of Cambium Networks and MikroTik.

The Almerian municipality of Serón, known for its Nasrid fortress and its hams, is part of the select club of Spanish smart towns (smart towns) thanks to the deployment of a wireless IP communications network that allows its town hall to have a network of surveillance and traffic control cameras, streaming public address services and offer free WiFi to its more than 2.000 residents.

The project, developed by Next Comunicaciones, is set up with twelve sites, equipped with antennas of Cambium Networks, that provide the entire town with streaming public address 24/7/365 and that unify the network with a guaranteed service level of the 90% of the contracted bandwidth.

This network uses radio equipment on the 5GHz frequency (free) of Microtik with the standard protocol 802.11 N, which supports rates of up to 400 Mbps, as well as all kinds of protocols and services to guarantee video streaming traffic.

For your part, the system hotspot installed it offers Internet access through a wireless network in public and private places, which is made up of several access points distributed throughout the town that connect wirelessly with the municipal network backbone, offering WiFi connectivity to citizens and passersby in public spaces.

The access portal is customized for the Serón Town Hall, so that it provides information of interest to users, in addition to giving them access to municipal services. The network deployment includes surveillance cameras so that all telecommunications infrastructure equipment is safe and cannot be tampered with.

'Next Comunicaciones' commitment to wireless technology - explains Antonio Alcaraz Prado, director of this company- provides small municipalities the possibility of offering their citizens technological services, at the level of large cities, thanks to the use of urban furniture and avoiding large civil construction costs'