Tentpole-grade WiFi. Auditorium-grade silence.
One platform for opening-night lobby crush, in-seat F&B during trailers, post-credits engagement, and the loyalty-app moments that make a Marvel night feel premium.
Tentpole. In-seat. Dwell. Dark-room reality.
Cinemas live in a punctuated rhythm — quiet for hours, then 1,200 phones associate at once. Concrete walls kill cellular. Auditoria are dark on purpose. Purple is built for every one of those edges, not designed-around them.
The cinema network is the cinema experience.
Modern cinema is a connected business — Genie+/Limitless apps, mobile e-tickets, AMC Stubs and Odeon Limitless tiers, sponsor-branded splash, in-seat ordering, post-show analytics. Purple is the network and presence layer that runs them all on the access points your CTO already approved.
1,500 phones associate in 20 minutes. Lobby APs don't collapse.
An opening Friday for a major release puts 800-1,500 guests through your lobby in a 20-minute window — every one of them refreshing the ticket app, scanning a QR, joining WiFi. Lobby APs designed for steady-state foot traffic fail under simultaneous-association storms. Purple's high-density profiles and presence-load balancing turn association into a non-event.
Order during the trailers. Delivered before the feature starts.
F&B is 30-40% of cinema profit. Long concession queues during trailers cause walkaways and abandoned carts. Purple's auditorium-edge AP enables in-seat ordering during the 15-20 minute pre-show window — order on the cinema app, runner delivers to row E seat 12, kitchen sees the order routed by auditorium.
Marvel fans stay through the credits. Reward the ones who do.
Post-credits dwell tells you which films retain the room and which clear in 30 seconds. It's also the moment to reward your highest-engagement fans. When your AP shows a member's device still associated five minutes after scheduled end, fire double-points + a discount on next booking — the loyalty moment a generic email blast can't replicate.
Punctuated demand. Premium dwell. Profit in the popcorn.
The top 25 theme parks and the global cinema box office both run on the same fact: revenue is concentrated in moments. Lobby crush, trailer F&B, post-credits dwell. Purple is built for the moments, not the steady state.
The auditorium isn't a dead zone. It's a presence sensor.
Concrete walls and lead-lined projection booths kill cellular. That's a feature, not a bug. With a low-power auditorium-edge AP, you control exactly when guest phones can reach the network — at entry for the ticket scan, during trailers for the F&B order, suppressed during the feature, re-enabled at the credits. The cinema team chooses, not the carrier.
- Per-auditorium AP profiles by show-time window
- Anti-piracy presence logging — phones active mid-feature flagged to ushers
- Trailer-window F&B ordering with auto-close before feature start
- Post-credits engagement analytics per film, per screen
Recognise the AMC Stubs A-List member at the gate.
AMC Stubs, Odeon Limitless, Cineworld Unlimited, Vue Pass — your members already pay for tier recognition. Purple knows the moment their phone associates with the lobby AP, which screen they're booked into, and how long they've stayed past the end credits.
A 'screen 7, gate on the right' nudge before the queue forms. A trailer-window concession order one tap away. A post-credits double-points hit for the Marvel-tier fan. Loyalty engagement that doesn't depend on the carrier, the queue manager, or the front-desk till.
Box office is the headline. F&B and dwell are the P&L.
Box-office data tells you how many tickets sold. Purple tells you how many of them stayed through the credits, how many ordered Coke + popcorn during the trailers, and how lobby capacity actually played out on tentpole night. The numbers ops have always wanted but never had.
Which films keep the room? Which empty in 30 seconds? Cleanup-window timing, per-screen, per-show.
How many guests in screen X turned trailer dwell into a Coke + popcorn? Which screens convert highest, and why?
Replay every tentpole night by association timestamp. Plan the next opening with real data, not a steady-state design.
Common cinema network questions, answered.
How does Purple handle a 1,500-guest tentpole night?
High-density AP profiles, association load balancing, and per-AP capacity headroom — designed exactly for the 20-minute opening-night crush. We've deployed for IMAX premieres, Marvel openings, and Bond launches; the lobby AP fleet doesn't degrade under the storm.
Can we offer in-seat F&B without lighting up phones during the feature?
Yes. Auditorium-edge APs run a per-window profile — open during the 15-20 minute trailer block for ordering, suppressed during the feature, re-enabled at the credits for the loyalty hit. Customers get the F&B ordering, the auditorium stays dark when it should.
Will it work with our cinema CRM (Movio / Vista / Veezi)?
Yes. Movio is the dominant cinema CRM and Purple is designed to feed it presence and dwell signals via webhook. Vista and Veezi POS integrations let you tie F&B orders to the auditorium and the member account.
Do we need new APs to get auditorium coverage?
Usually no. Cisco Meraki, Aruba, and Extreme estates already run in most multiplexes — Purple sits as a cloud overlay on top. The auditorium-edge AP is a single low-power addition per screen, not a fleet rip-and-replace.
How does anti-piracy presence detection work?
If a guest phone is active on the auditorium AP mid-feature (the AP profile *should* be suppressing client traffic), it surfaces as an alert to the duty manager — the moment to send an usher, not a forensics team. We don't jam, we don't decrypt traffic; we just see association.
Ready to ship the tentpole night that doesn't drop?
Speak to a cinema specialist who's deployed Purple across multiplex chains and independent venues. We'll scope a single-cinema pilot, prove the lobby capacity and F&B conversion lift, and roll out from there.
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