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, de manera que proporcione información de interés a los usuarios, además de darles acceso a los servicios municipales. El despliegue de la red incluye cámaras de vigilancia para que todos los equipos de infraestructura de telecomunicaciones estén seguros y no puedan ser manipulados.

“La apuesta de Next Comunicaciones por la tecnología inalámbrica -explica Antonio Alcaraz Prado, director de esta empresa- brinda la posibilidad a pequeños municipios de ofrecer a sus ciudadanos servicios tecnológicos, a la altura de las grandes ciudades, gracias al uso del mobiliario urbano y evitando grandes costes de obras civiles”