Your coworking software integrates with IronWiFi and allows you to:
Automate giving and revoking access to Wi-Fi.
Grant access only to customers: members, visitors, and guests on different conditions.
Make it easy to people to connect to Wi-Fi without any passwords.
Know who is online, how often, and how long with IronWiFi's built-in analytics tools.
Prerequisites for connecting IronWiFi
Install the Wi-Fi routers that IronWiFi supports. You may see the list of supported vendors on the IronWiFi website. Please get in touch with IronWiFi if you have any questions about hardware or their cloud-based RADIUS servers.
Create captive portals inside IronWiFi global region, and not your local one:
Sign in to the Console
Switch to the global region - non-regional (button in the top right corner)
On the Networks page, click "Create new."
Connect and configure the IronWiFi integration
You will need to have your andcards and IronWiFi accounts ready to enable the integration. Ensure you have connected all your networks and created all necessary captive portals in the IronWiFi account. Then follow these steps:
Open your app and go to Locations > Settings > IronWiFi >
Connect.Enter your API Key and press
Save. Where to find the IronWiFi API keyOnce your IronWiFi account is connected, you will see the "Captive Portals" section.
Press the "Connect Captive Portal" button > select the network from the dropdown > choose the captive portal that was preliminary created in your IronWiFi account > set unconditional or conditional access options.
Wi-Fi access criteria
It is possible to set up Wi-Fi access in a way that allows certain individuals to use it. This can be based on specific conditions such as having a subscription or booking.
Your app allows to grant network access based on such criteria:
Subscription
Desk Booking
Room Booking
Switching on any requirements for conditional access allows users that meet these conditions to go online.
How users connect to Wi-Fi
When users arrive at your coworking space and open a list of Wi-Fi networks on their devices, they can go online in a few simple steps:
Choose the open Wi-Fi network from the list of available options on their device. It's important that users select the network that matches the one you set up in IronWiFi and has a captive portal.
Authenticate through the pop-up window (captive portal). Users must use the same email they have used with your app to sign up or book.
The integration will check if the user with the email meets Wi-Fi network access criteria and grant access according to your settings.
To authenticate, users must enter their email address and the one-time login code. To receive this code, users must have the internet on a secondary device (e.g. a smartphone with a cellular data connection), which works for most people. If you have clients that don't have a secondary device and/or access to the internet without your Wi-Fi network, use Twilio to send Wi-Fi login codes by SMS.
Disconnect the IronWiFi integration
To disconnect a captive portal, go to Locations > Settings > IronWiFi > select a captive portal > press "Disconnect Captive Portal."
To disconnect the entire integration, go to Locations > Settings > IronWiFi > "Disconnect."