LogicFlow: Automating WiFi Events and Triggers

Welcome to the Purple Technical Briefing. I'm your host, a Senior Solutions Architect here at Purple. In this session, we're going to give you, the IT leaders and network architects, a practical, no-nonsense overview of one of our most powerful platform features: LogicFlow. Our goal today is to move beyond the marketing brochure and give you the kind of technical grounding you need to evaluate, deploy, and get real value from WiFi event automation this quarter. Let's set the scene. You've invested in enterprise WiFi infrastructure. You have access points deployed across your venue, whether that's a hotel, a retail chain, a stadium, or a conference centre. Every day, hundreds or thousands of visitors connect to your network. And right now, for most organisations, that connection event is just a transaction. A user connects, they get online, and that's it. The network has done its job. But here's the question I want you to sit with: what if every single connection event was an opportunity? An opportunity to personalise the experience, to gather intelligence, to trigger an operational response, or to drive a business outcome? That is precisely what LogicFlow is designed to enable. So, what is LogicFlow? At its core, it is an event-driven automation engine. It's a visual, drag-and-drop workflow builder that sits at the heart of the Purple platform. It listens for triggers — events happening on your network in real-time — and it executes actions based on rules you define. The architecture is elegant in its simplicity: an event happens, a decision is made, and an action is delivered. Event, Decision, Action. That's the fundamental grammar of every workflow you will ever build in LogicFlow. Now let's get into the technical specifics, because this is where it gets genuinely interesting. The Events layer is the data source. And the richness of this data is what sets LogicFlow apart from a simple marketing automation tool. We're not just talking about a user connecting. We're talking about a comprehensive dataset that spans several categories. First, there are visitor demographics. From the captive portal login, you can capture age, gender, language preference, email address, and visit count. That visit count is particularly powerful. It tells you whether you're looking at a first-time visitor, a regular, or a loyal VIP. And you can define those thresholds yourself. Second, there's device and network data. LogicFlow can identify the operating system — whether that's iOS, Android, or Windows — the browser being used, the specific SSID the visitor connected to, and even the name or MAC address of the access point they're associated with. That last point is crucial for location-aware automation, which I'll come back to. Third, there's environmental context. This is one of the more innovative aspects of the platform. LogicFlow can pull in real-time weather data based on your venue's coordinates. Is it raining? Is the temperature above 25 degrees? You can use this as a trigger. And you can also trigger based on the day of the week, the time of day, or a specific date. This opens up a whole category of time and context-aware automation. Fourth, and perhaps most valuable, is user behaviour data. This includes responses to NPS surveys, answers to micro-surveys, the login method a visitor chose, and whether they've signed up for a paid WiFi plan. This is real-time feedback that you can act on immediately. So that's the Events layer. Now let's talk about Decisions. Decision Nodes are where the intelligence lives. Using a simple visual interface, you create branching logic. The two primary logic types are True/False and If/Else. True/False is binary: does this condition hold? Yes or no? If/Else is more nuanced: if this condition is met, do this; otherwise, do that. What makes this powerful is the ability to combine conditions. You can use AND logic, where all conditions must be true, or OR logic, where any one condition is sufficient. And you can nest decision nodes, creating multi-level branching paths that segment your audience with incredible precision. For example, you might have a decision node that checks: Is the visitor's age between 18 and 35? AND Is their operating system iOS? AND Is their visit count equal to 1? If all three are true, you've identified a first-time young adult iPhone user. That's a very specific segment, and you can deliver a very specific action to them. Which brings us to Actions. Action Nodes are context-dependent, meaning the actions available to you depend on which phase of the connection journey you're in. There are three phases: Pre-Authentication, Post-Authentication, and Online. Pre-Authentication is the stage before the visitor has logged in. At this point, the only action available is to change the Splash Page. This might seem limited, but it's actually very useful. You can dynamically serve different branded pages based on the venue, the time of day, or the SSID. A conference centre could show a different branded portal for each event it hosts, all from a single network infrastructure. Post-Authentication is where the action really opens up. Once a visitor has logged in, you can present an NPS survey or a micro-survey, show a video, fire a webhook to an external system, or assign them to a paid WiFi tier. That webhook capability is a game-changer for integration. You can push data to your CRM, trigger an alert in your operations team's Slack channel, or even instruct a building management system to take an action. The possibilities are essentially unlimited. The Online phase covers what happens once the visitor has full network access. Here, you can redirect them to a specific URL, send an email or SMS campaign with a configurable time delay, or display a different splash page on their next visit. Now, let me walk you through two real-world implementation scenarios to make this concrete. Scenario one: a 500-room luxury hotel. The IT Director wants to improve guest satisfaction scores and drive more positive online reviews. They've identified two key segments: first-time guests and returning VIP members. The workflow is triggered on the Post-Authentication event. The first decision node checks whether the visitor has a VIP tag in the system. This tag can be synced from the hotel's Property Management System via the API. If the visitor is a VIP, they're redirected to a personalised welcome page with exclusive offers, and an email campaign is triggered with a one-hour delay, inviting them to book spa treatments. If they're a first-time guest, they're presented with an NPS survey immediately. A second decision node then checks the survey score. If it's a 9 or 10 — a promoter — the system sends an email 24 hours later with a direct link to leave a review on TripAdvisor. If the score is 8 or below, a webhook fires an immediate alert to the Front Desk Manager's Slack channel with the guest's name and room number, enabling proactive service recovery. That last part is the key insight. You're not waiting for a bad review to appear online. You're intercepting the problem in real-time and giving your team the information they need to fix it before the guest checks out. Scenario two: a large retail shopping centre with over 200 stores. The Head of Digital Marketing wants to drive downloads of the new loyalty and wayfinding app. The workflow is triggered on the Online event. The first decision node checks if the visit count is less than three, targeting newer visitors who are less likely to have the app. The second decision node checks if the operating system is iOS or Android, filtering out laptops and other non-mobile devices. If both conditions are true, the visitor is redirected to a custom, mobile-friendly landing page that explains the app's benefits and has prominent, one-click buttons to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Visitors who don't meet these criteria — returning customers or laptop users — simply get a standard browsing experience. No interruption, no annoyance. This is the principle I want you to take away: automate, don't annoy. The power of LogicFlow is in its precision. Use the rich decision logic to ensure your actions are always relevant to the specific user in that specific context. Now let me give you some implementation recommendations and flag the common pitfalls. My first recommendation is to start with a single, clear business objective. Don't try to build a 50-node workflow on day one. Pick one problem: service recovery, app downloads, loyalty engagement. Build a simple, single-purpose flow. Measure its impact. Then expand. My second recommendation is to use webhooks aggressively. They are your integration layer. Every time you find yourself thinking, 'I wish the WiFi system could talk to our CRM,' or 'I wish we could get an alert when something happens,' that's a webhook use case. My third recommendation is to build compliance into the logic from the start. Before any marketing action, add a decision node that checks whether the visitor has consented to receive communications. The platform has a built-in 'emailable' flag for exactly this purpose. This is not just good practice; it's a legal requirement under GDPR. Don't treat compliance as an afterthought. The most common pitfall I see is what I call 'automating for the sake of it.' A redirect to an app download page is valuable for a new mobile user. For a returning VIP on a laptop, it's an interruption. Always ask: does this action add value for this specific visitor at this specific moment? The second pitfall is neglecting the validation step. LogicFlow has a built-in validate function that checks for incomplete nodes, missing connections, and invalid logic. Use it every time before you publish. And always test on a non-production SSID before rolling out to your live environment. Let me do a quick rapid-fire round on questions I hear frequently. Can this integrate with our existing CRM? Yes. The webhook action node is your gateway to any platform with a REST API. Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics, custom systems — all accessible. Is it GDPR compliant? The platform provides the tools to build compliant workflows. The responsibility for compliance lies with you, the data controller. Build consent checks into every marketing workflow. How is this different from a standard email marketing tool? The trigger source. LogicFlow reacts to real-world presence and network behaviour, not just online clicks. It knows a visitor is physically in your venue right now. That immediacy and context is what makes it fundamentally different. To summarise: LogicFlow is an event-driven automation engine that transforms your WiFi network from a passive utility into an intelligent, responsive business platform. By leveraging the rich data from your venue — demographics, location, behaviour, and environment — you can build workflows that enhance guest experience, improve operational efficiency, and drive measurable business outcomes. Your immediate next step is to identify one key process in your venue that is currently manual and could be automated. Is it service recovery? Is it loyalty engagement? Is it compliance enforcement? Start there. Build a simple flow, measure the result, and iterate. The WiFi infrastructure you've already invested in is capable of so much more than just providing connectivity. LogicFlow is how you unlock that potential. Thank you for joining this Purple Technical Briefing. For deeper technical documentation, visit our support portal. To speak with a solutions architect about your specific deployment, contact your account manager. We look forward to helping you build the future of intelligent venues.