A private home network for every tenancy, run from one platform

Every household gets its own Private Area Network on one building-wide network, so residents can get online from the day they collect their keys without a router or broadband contract to arrange. Door entry, CCTV and sensors get a key each, and housing staff sign in with their work account. All layered on the access points you already own.

• A Private Area Network per household
• No router to install in each flat
• A private key for every building device
• ISO 27001 and UK GDPR compliant

A typical housing scheme today

• Households left offline because a broadband contract is one more bill to take on
• One communal WiFi password, shared between neighbours, visitors and contractors
• Door entry, CCTV and sensors on the same network residents use
• Housing officers and repairs teams who cannot get online when they visit a scheme

With Purple

• Landlord-provided WiFi with a private network for each household, ready at sign-up
• Every resident on their own Private Area Network, invisible to their neighbours
• Every building device on its own key and VLAN, revocable one at a time
• Staff sign in with their work account at any scheme, and leavers lose access automatically

The at-home experience, with enterprise isolation

Purple creates a Private Area Network for each household when they sign in. Their phones, tablet, laptop and smart TV can find each other and stay invisible to every other flat, all on one building-wide network secured with WPA2/3-Enterprise and 802.1X. Residents get a home network without a router, a credit check or a contract.

• Residents onboard a phone or laptop in about 60 seconds with the Purple app, with no engineer visit
• Smart TVs and consoles that cannot open a browser join with a private iPSK passcode
• mDNS reflection keeps casting and wireless printing working inside each household's bubble
• Access ends with the tenancy, so there is no router to collect and no password to change for the next household

Purple is not an internet provider. You bring the connection to the building, and Purple turns it into a private, secure network for every household.

Community rooms that help people get online, and a channel to every household

Community hubs, sheltered scheme lounges and estate offices are where digital inclusion work happens. Purple gives visitors and drop-in sessions a branded captive portal with DNS content filtering, kept apart from resident and building networks, and gives you a direct line to the people using it. Newcastle City Council uses the same platform for free public WiFi and records a 96% repeat-visitor rate.

• Branded captive portal with UK GDPR consent and a full audit trail
• DNS content filtering on visitor and community networks
• Micro-surveys and service updates at sign-in, from repairs news to welfare advice sessions
• Consented contacts sent to your housing CRM through 400+ data connectors

A private key for every device that keeps residents safe

Door entry panels, CCTV, lift controllers, fire panel gateways and damp and humidity sensors cannot sign in with a username. xPSK gives each one its own key and its own VLAN, so a leaked key exposes one device rather than the block, and none of them sit on the network residents use.

• Works under your vendor's name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi
• MAC binding ties each key to the first device that uses it, and keys can be revoked one at a time
• Time-limited keys for contractors and repairs partners, with no MDM required
• No per-device licence and no cap on devices per key

One login for housing officers, wherever they work

Housing officers, repairs operatives, support workers and scheme managers move between offices, community hubs and sheltered schemes every week. Purple syncs with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta and JumpCloud over SCIM, so staff connect with the account they already use and group membership decides their network and policy.

• Leavers lose access automatically when their account is disabled
• Staff, agency workers and contractors land on separate VLANs with their own rules
• Work laptops get EAP-TLS certificates through Intune or Jamf
• Every session logged against a named person, device, time and location

Hundreds of homes, one network to run

In one US multi-dwelling deployment, 500 apartments run on a single network fabric instead of 500 separately configured routers. Across Purple, replacing shared passwords with identity-based sign-in cuts IT helpdesk requests by 80%, so a small housing IT team can run resident, building and staff networks together.

Figures from a Purple partner deployment in a US multi-dwelling building, Purple platform data and service terms.

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• Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
• A Private Area Network per household, with mDNS reflection for casting and printing
• ISO 27001 certified, Cyber Essentials, UK GDPR compliant and a certified B Corp