We are pleased to participate as a “Power of Infrastructure” partner at Oracle Hospitality Days. Under this year’s motto “The Power of Cloud”, industry experts and executives will inform about the latest trends around the topic “Cloud” and share their thoughts on what opportunities it offers for the hotel industry.

Our technology experts Ralf Ander and Avdo Iljazovic will be available at the event series to answer any questions about the availability of stable Internet connections with a backup concept and to provide information about what is special about our SD-WAN solution and how setting up redundant systems contributes to fail-safety.

We are looking forward to a lively exchange and to seeing you at one of the Oracle Hospitality Days near you!

07.11.22 – Berlin – Invalidenstrasse 65, Berlin
10.11.22 – München – Riesstrasse 25, München
17.11.22 – Frankfurt – Garden Tower, Neue Mainzer Strasse 47-67, Frankfurt
24.11.22 – Wien – Donau City Strasse 7, Wien
01.12.22 – Zürich – The Circle 32, Zürich

As a sponsor and participant, we are pleased to announce today the start of the Stakeholder Conference 2022 in Dubai, which is considered one of the most influential and powerful networking events in the hospitality sector. Decision makers from across the Middle East will gather over the next few days to share the latest trends and developments in hospitality technology for their upcoming projects and make relevant contacts in the hospitality industry.

Our hospitality experts Emilio Dragas, Roland Heinen and Jeroen Wisse will be on site from 18-20.10.2022 to meet the global leaders in the hospitality industry and present m3connect’s holistic solutions for the digital transformation of the hospitality industry.

We are looking forward to three eventful days, reuniting with partners, customers and familiar faces, and driving the hospitality industry of the future with our latest developments and features.

From 16-18 September, our team pitched its tents for the third time for a joint IT camping weekend. This year at the campsite in Dedenborn surrounded by the beautiful landscape of the Eifel. At this quiet and undisturbed spot by the stream, our employees spent the entire weekend in a cosy atmosphere with delicious food from the grill, fun games and good music around the campfire.

The idea of the IT camp came about almost three years ago thanks to the commitment of our developers. Our technical departments make up the majority of our staff. Every day, they take care of the development of all the necessary tools to offer our customers tailor-made product solutions, to provide them with optimal support in technical challenges and to drive the further development of the company. Since close internal networking is always of great importance, the desire for a cosy but at the same time adventurous “come together” within the framework of a camping trip arose. The original idea quickly developed into a fixed part of our annual planning, and our other departments joined in. For our camping-loving colleagues, the IT camp has established itself as an annual highlight and has since become indispensable.

As a company, we naturally like to support the strong team spirit of our employees and are always happy to spend eventful hours outside of our offices, where we can learn, laugh and also simply switch off together. This is especially easy for us in nature!

On 23 September, the starting signal was given for the ninth Aachener Firmenlauf in Oberforstbach. For more than a decade now, the traditional running event has invited regional companies to compete with other companies in a sporting event.

For us taking part in the Aachener Firmenlauf has become a company tradition. This year, our colleagues Claudia, Jennifer, Katharina, Philipp, Robin, Erik, Marvin, Lars, Philipp, Daniel and David took part in the race for a good cause and mastered both the short and medium distances.

The rest of our colleagues supported the runners at our meeting point in front of the starting line with plenty of snacks, drinks and loud cheers. We are proud of our team, our cohesion and the challenges we master together – whether at work or while running! We rounded off the successful afternoon with cool drinks at the barbecue and were able to toast once again to a successful team event and the great achievements of our runners!

This year’s Aachener Firmenlauf enjoyed a total of 6,000 runners from 400 companies who took to the starting line for a good cause. This supports various projects in the region that promote health, exercise, prevention, integration and non-violence. Thus, the event is not only fun for us, but also a meaningful cause in which we are happy to participate and which we will certainly support again next year under the motto “Running wireless by m3connect”!

Would you also like to become part of our team and do your rounds with us next year? You can find our current vacancies here.

The new training year started at the beginning of the month and we were once again able to welcome three new trainees in the area of IT for digital networking and system integration. This means that we now have a total of 10 apprentices in their 1st, 2nd and 3rd year.
As every year, the new training year began with our Trainee Welcome Day. Two of our three new trainees traveled from Karlsruhe especially for this and stayed in Aachen for the whole week to get to know the other departments and to be familiarized with the first topics. They will primarily complete their training at our location at Messe Karlsruhe. This year’s Welcome Day was planned and executed by HR, our trainers and our existing trainees. The overarching contact with all trainers and trainees, regardless of their training years and professions, is very important to us. In this way, our trainees in advanced apprenticeship years introduced the newcomers not only to our company history, customer divisions and product range, but also, in their own words and strengthened with personal experiences, to the various job profiles that are trained at m3connect. We wanted to make sure that our young talents, who are all taking their first steps in their professional life with us fresh from the school desk this year, know about the legalities of the training. To this end, we summarized the relevant laws and explained to the trainees in one sentence how m3connect implements them and to what extent we offer benefits in addition. Also the mutual expectations of the apprenticeship were discussed extensively. A tour of our company building, a slice of pizza and small talk with our CTO, who had previously met the trainees in a video interview, rounded off the day of getting to know each other. After many new impressions, we ended the Welcome Day with delicious drinks and great conversations in the old customs house next door.
Every year we invest a lot of time in onboarding so that our new trainees feel at home with us and can develop into experts in their specialist areas as quickly as possible. It is important to us to integrate them into the company by means of various measures and also to offer concrete development opportunities – and it pays off: In the past, the majority of our trainees have remained with us in the team after successfully completing their training. The training of junior staff is therefore an investment in our future that pays off and which we are constantly optimizing.

Once again, welcome Alessio Arandelovic, Adi Damadzic and Hanan Alrifaie. We look forward to accompanying and supporting you over the next three years. We offer you great career opportunities and the best chances for the future – in this sense: We wish you a great start at m3connect and much success for your training.

 

In the current issue of Hotel Management International, we report on our solutions for the hospitality industry and explain what added value our SD-WAN concept offers for digitization in hotels.
In the course of the increasing digitalization of everyday hotel life, hoteliers have to cope with an increasing demand for bandwidth and need a stable, high-performance and secure network infrastructure. To meet these requirements, m3connect has developed an automated SD-WAN network solution. What the basis of a well-designed infrastructure in hotels looks like and the answers to many other exciting questions can be found here.

As a network specialist in the care sector, we have now successfully equipped all 82 planned sites for the home operator Korian. In the course of digitization in care, we set up a stable network for all locations and provided WLAN for residents and visitors. Previously, there was no WLAN infrastructure in most of the facilities. Now we have installed a total of 2,785 devices ranging from access points to routers and ensured that all locations are equipped with a stable network. Since structured cabling was often not in place, each site was considered individually and connected using LAN cabling, coaxial cabling or a mix of both, depending on the existing conditions. Once we had the network infrastructure in place, we added resident, visitor and employee networks to the homes. By separating the networks for the three groups, they can be customized to meet their respective needs for availability, speed and bandwidth.
With the new network infrastructure and the IoT-capable hardware installed for it, the foundation has been laid for further digitization steps.

Artificial intelligence for radar systems to support police surveillance in public places and train stations, in short KIRaPol.5G. This is one of our company’s new 5G projects, which is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the 5G.NRW competition. Together with the project partners IMST GmbH, Telefonbau Arthur Schwabe GmbH, the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and various security authorities (Federal Police, Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, Mönchengladbach Police Headquarters), we are developing a concept in which public areas can be monitored in compliance with data protection requirements by using innovative technologies.

Instead of video systems, radar technology is increasingly used. Here, radio waves can be used to detect not only individual objects, but also their position and speed. In this case, it is not possible to draw personal conclusions, as could be the case with video surveillance using facial recognition. This results in a considerable advantage in terms of data protection law. AI-supported pattern recognition will be used to read out people’s movements from the radar data, which will also make it possible to identify dangerous situations, among other things. For example, if a person is lying motionless on the ground, an alarm can be automatically triggered to the security authorities. In this way, emergencies can be quickly recognized and a correspondingly rapid response can be made.

In this project, we are responsible for the network infrastructure for transmitting the highly secured data streams. The radar systems are connected to the central components via the 5G network. The data collected there is then in turn transmitted via a highly encrypted connection to a cloud, from which the alarms are triggered to the security authorities in subsequent use cases. The pilot project will be the main train station in Mönchengladbach, including the forecourt.

We warmly welcome Emina Iljazovic, Sebastian Gerhards, Cuong Nguyen, Stephan Weber, Farras Sasono, Soufian Asabban, Alex Boos, Alexander Ritz and Andre Siedersleben to our team!
We are very happy that we are able to recruit new colleagues again and again, despite the tight situation on the job market, and we are expecting further reinforcements until the turn of the year!

Are you also looking for new and exciting challenges in a strong team? Then apply now! Here you can take a look on our latest job offers!

We are looking forward to your application!

Centrally located in the city center and just a few meters from the cathedral and city hall, a new Motel One hotel opened in the imperial city of Aachen at the end of March. The design hotel impresses not only with rooms, a mini spa and comfortable box spring beds but also with its individual interior in reference to Aachen’s history and present.
As a long-time partner of Motel One, we are very excited about the new location, which is just a few minutes’ walk from our headquarters. We have provided high-speed Internet lines for the property, expanded the WLAN across the board and installed 259 new smart TVs from Samsung. The use of the WLAN as well as the TVs runs via our self-developed platform conn4. So nothing stands in the way of a future stay with first-class WLAN connection as well as a wide selection of entertainment via the room TVs. We welcome the Motel One Aachen in our imperial city and wish a good and successful start.

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