Care home WiFi for residents, staff and patients, kept apart
Residents in elderly care get a private network each, staff authenticate on certificates, and patient devices run on their own keys. St George's Healthcare NHS Trust saves £12k a year on patient iPads for family calls.
- £12k a year saved at St George's
- ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
Your three networks
Three SSIDs for care settings
Identity decides the VLAN inside each network, so one SSID carries many groups.
Network 1
Open
Visitors and families sign in through the captive portal.Network 2
Secure
Staff on EAP-TLS with your MDM. A leaver loses access at every site when their account is disabled.Network 3
xPSK
A private network per resident, and a key per patient iPad, sensor and door controller.
Visibility and reporting
Every authentication across your care sites, in one place
Accepts and rejects with the reason, by resident, member of staff and patient device, streamed to your SIEM and ready for the auditor.
- One estate-wide query, no per-building exports.
- Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic or Datadog over webhook or syslog.
- Occupancy and footfall by site, hour and day, with MAC addresses anonymised.
Proof
In the NHS
- £12k
- a year saved on patient iPads for family calls, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
Add-on: Purple Shield
Add protective DNS with Purple Shield
Purple Shield bolts onto Access or runs standalone, with a DNS policy per VLAN and by time of day, so each group on your three networks gets the filtering that fits it. Page loads up to 500% faster and 20 to 40% less web traffic. Try it free for 30 days.
FAQ
Common questions
Can each resident have their own network?
Yes. Each resident gets a private area network on the xPSK SSID that follows them across the building.
Do we need new access points in our care homes?
No. Purple Access is a cloud overlay on the access points your care homes already run: Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet, and mixed estates are supported.
Keep residents, staff and patient devices apart
Book a 45-minute design session and leave with the plan for your sites.
- Get your three-SSID plan in 45 minutesTell us what runs on your WiFi today, and a Purple network engineer maps it with you.
- Map your SSIDs onto threeOpen, secure and xPSK, on the access points you already own. You leave with the plan.
- Prove it on one site firstJudge the result on tickets and audit evidence, then roll out.
Your design session
45 minutes. Your estate. A plan you keep.
Led by a Purple network engineer. No slides. You keep the plan.