WiFi for Airports

Purple sits as a cloud overlay on your existing access points and creates separate SSIDs and VLANs for each zone — departures, arrivals, lounges, retail concessions, and airside operations. A single Purple Hub dashboard gives airport ops visibility across all zones, while concession operators see only their own analytics.

Purple provides terminal dwell-time heatmaps, peak-hour footfall, passenger flow between zones, new vs returning device ratios, and marketing campaign performance. These signals support operational decisions — gate assignment timing, F&B staffing, and retail promotion targeting.

Yes. Purple supports Passpoint (802.11u / Hotspot 2.0) and OpenRoaming, enabling compatible devices to connect automatically without a captive portal. This improves the passenger experience for frequent travellers while the captive portal path remains for all other devices.

Purple uses VLAN segmentation to isolate concession guest traffic from airside operations and corporate networks at the AP level. Each concession can have its own branded portal and analytics without any visibility into adjacent zones or the airport backbone.

Airport WiFi operates across international jurisdictions, but GDPR applies to EU-based airports and any processing of EU resident data. Purple records consent at the point of sign-in, stores it with a timestamp, and supports right-to-erasure requests. Data residency options (EU hosting) are available for airports requiring local data storage.

Yes. Purple can present a loyalty sign-in option on the captive portal and pass validated sign-in events to an airline loyalty platform via webhook or API. Frequent flyer status can be used to tier WiFi access — for example, waiving the sign-up step for gold and platinum members.