Public WiFi That Connects Citizens and Tourists — and Powers Smart-City Services

Citizens and tourists connect once through a branded captive portal and reconnect automatically with Passpoint and WBA OpenRoaming across public spaces. Cloud4Wi handles secure onboarding, consent, and data while your existing access points carry the traffic — so a city can offer reliable, free public WiFi without standing up new infrastructure or a help desk.

Free, reliable WiFi in public spaces — squares, transit stops, libraries, community centers — gives residents and visitors who lack home or mobile data a way to get online for services, work, and study. Cloud4Wi makes that access secure and easy to onboard, and lets the city offer digital services on top, widening connectivity for everyone.

Yes. Cloud4Wi is hardware-independent and runs on the access points and controllers you already own — Cisco, Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Extreme, and more — via standard protocols. There's no rip-and-replace and no proprietary hardware. You manage every zone and site from one dashboard and roll out neighborhood by neighborhood without disruption.

Cloud4Wi's Network Access Control gives municipal staff identity-based access through your IdP, assigns per-device PPSK credentials to smart-city IoT and headless devices like sensors, signage, and cameras, and grants vendors scoped, time-limited access. This isolates operational systems from public WiFi, reduces breach risk, and lets administrators grant or revoke any device or person instantly.

Yes. Cloud4Wi is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR-native, with granular consent management, configurable data-retention policies, localized privacy notices, and a MyData Portal for data-rights requests. Citizens and tourists opt in explicitly before any data is captured, so the public body collects only what it needs and handles personal data to public-sector privacy standards.

During WiFi onboarding and in a connected city app, Cloud4Wi can surface location-aware content: maps, attractions, transit info, event promotions, and support for local businesses. Real-time, location-based messaging engages people where they are. It turns public WiFi from a basic utility into a channel for civic communication, tourism, and local economic development.