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.

© Motel One

Sustainability is of great importance to our company. Therefore, we have decided to reward our employees with an attractive offer.

From now on, all our employees have the opportunity to receive an electric company car – regardless of their professional experience and position. In this way, we want to support the mobile independence and the quality of life of our workforce in both their professional and private lives. At the same time, this measure is intended to actively counteract the current challenges posed by rising costs in almost all important areas of life. In these times of crisis, it is particularly important for us as an employer to act responsibly and in favor of our employees.

The goal we are pursuing is clear: to increase the employee satisfaction through needs-based adjustments and, at the same time, to inspire greater awareness of our environment. Our employees are delighted with the new offer and the first orders have already been placed.

Other additional benefits we offer our employees include an above-average employer contribution to the company pension plan, 30 vacation days, lifelong learning and development opportunities, KiTa allowances, events such as Rock am Ring, bonuses for weddings or the birth of a child, a company bicycle and many more. Last month, we also introduced remote work as a new working model to give our employees a better work-life balance. This means that it is now possible to work flexibly in terms of location two days a week – whether at home, with a partner or even abroad.

It is important to us that our employees use their skills to the best of their abilities and that we reward their contribution to the company’s success. That’s why we are constantly optimizing our overall offering, so that our employees can realize their talents, visions and successes.

We are always looking for new talents for our team. Our open positions are available here: https://lnkd.in/dDuXwcM.

This year’s IHA-Hotelkongress will take place on June 29 and 30, 2022 at the Lindner Congress Hotel Düsseldorf. As a partner of the IHA Hotel Association, we will of course participate again. Our Sales Managers Rosaria Weiland, Avdo Iljazovic and Constantin Cremerius will be at our exhibitor table to talk about our field-tested, forward-looking solutions. They will present our unique networking concept with SD-WAN as well as our solutions for WiFi portals, room TVs and digital signage. The three of them are looking forward to two eventful days with many interesting discussions.

Located in the heart of Chiemgau, the resort DAS ACHENTAL offers a lot of free space, a magnificent golf course, the finest culinary moments of pleasure in the various restaurants, wellness and enough space for meetings. It is well-known among soccer clubs and, in addition to Bundesliga clubs, is also used by the German national team for training camps. In his hotel’s own gourmet restaurant “es:senz”, the 2-star chef Edip Sigl invites guests to enjoy inventive dishes with selected ingredients in the best organic quality.

This perfect place for a sports vacation now also shines with a completely new WiFi network on the entire resort grounds for its guests. A total of approximately 225 access points have been installed indoors and outdoors. The access points, the hotel’s own camera system, the building management system, the music and cash register systems, fitness equipment, charging stations for the e-cars and training equipment in the driving range all run via the new m3connect VLAN security concept and are managed via more than 30 switches. This enables secure and comprehensive coverage of the entire resort, including the connection of additional buildings on the site via newly laid fiber optic cables. Thanks to a symmetrical m3connect 1 Gigabit Internet connection, it is now possible for guests to surf with high-speed Internet throughout the entire complex. We are pleased about the good cooperation and look forward to further joint projects.

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After this year’s EuroCIS in Düsseldorf had to be postponed from February to May 31st to June 2nd, we are now even more pleased to be able to participate again live at a presence trade fair as an exhibitor. This year we can be found together with our partner, bintec elmeg GmbH, at our joint booth A47 in hall 9. There we will present our branch office networking solutions and show which advantages our SD-WAN concept has in store for you. Thanks to our multi-provider approach, we offer solutions that are tailored to your needs and affordable.
bintec elmeg GmbH will be showcasing scalable fixed network and VPN systems as well as future-proof SDx solutions in conjunction with secure cloud services.
Would you like to visit us at our booth at EuroCIS 2022 and learn more about our solutions, then contact us here and secure your free ticket.

This year the Altenpflege Messe takes place from 26.04.22 to 28.04.22 in presence again and we are happy to be there for the first time!

At the Altenpflege Messe every year the latest developments, products and services around the inpatient and outpatient care are presented. This year, among others, the topic of digitalization is in the spotlight. At our booth C10 in hall 6, we will be presenting our solutions for a secure and stable IT network, IoT applications and digital signage in the care sector together with our partner, Ascom Deutschland GmbH. We will show you how you can use our solutions to help reduce the workload of caregivers and create more time for the patients and residents.

The right information, at the right time, in the right place. Ascom digitization solutions for long-term care help ensure the safety, dignity and privacy of nursing home residents and those in need of care, and enable a calm, efficient working environment for mobile caregivers.

To attend this year’s Altenpflege Messe at no cost, please click on this link https://bit.ly/3Jcxtkp

and enter the following invitation code: dXtWM.

We look forward to seeing you there!