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• Unified Platform – Dominion
• Broadband Network
• Energy
• Dominion Data Sheet - PDF

Unified Network Platform – Dominion

At the core of Blueprint RF’s network solutions is a new, distributed architecture which delivers multiple service features to improve guest and hotel connectivity and provide a complete platform for energy monitoring and management.

Dominion

Blueprint RF’s platform architecture starts with Dominion. Dominion is a cutting-edge, on-site network appliance that delivers all the features found in three separate network appliances;

• Circuit Load Balancing
• Gateway Authentication
• Packet Shaper – for policy-based Internet traffic shaping and priortization

Since Dominion is a single appliance, one OS platform allows all features to work in a seamless fashion – from end-to-end. Alternatively, when three separate appliances are used, as is commonly the case today, disparate device operating systems do not interact smoothly. Many useful features must be disabled for the entire stack to pass Internet traffic without incident. While Dominion features a single, seamless operating platform it is also far less costly than the typical “network stack” (three separate appliances) while at the same time consuming significantly less energy to operate.

Cloud-Hosted Application – "Dashboard"

Blueprint RF’s cloud-hosted application leverages data lifted from Dominion (and other sources) to create the industry’s most in-depth and comprehensive dashboard for hotel facility managers. A single dashboard provides multiple “summary” views to display critical network activities such as; trouble ticket activity and network use statistics, network health monitoring, circuit load monitoring and reporting, Internet traffic reporting by category (e.g. peer-to-peer, email, VPN, etc.), and energy consumption monitoring by each major building system (e.g. HVAC, elevators, electrical, boilers, laundry, etc.). Summary views also offer deep drill-down flexibility to examine specific category data in more detail. Dominion makes possible localized and deep data collection in real-time, while the cloud application archives all combinations of data over much longer periods - via master SQL servers. The result creates powerful views and combinations keeping hotel facility and IT managers fully informed. Today, nothing like this exists within hospitality.

Below is a sample image of the Customer Dashboard. Click to enlarge.