WiFi is the foundation required for every community. From working and paying bills to streaming music and connecting with others digitally, WiFi is vital to many facets of an individual's life, especially where they reside.

Community-wide WiFi has quickly become a necessity for modern apartment communities. Whether it's to streamline the leasing and maintenance processes or to enhance the resident and associate experience, WiFi is a prerequisite for modern living standards and is a true amenity that creates a positive resident experience.

WiFi is just one piece of a community's connectivity foundation. There is more to creating seamless, efficient experiences than just providing a stable and reliable connection.

The connectivity foundation

Modern connectivity requires a true understanding of the built environment. Every community has its own needs and intricacies associated with its digital communication and connectivity goals, and those can only be met by setting the right digital groundwork that allows for adaptation as technology continues to evolve.

Through a backhaul network connection, these updates allow properties to guarantee not only high speeds and low latency to its residents and associates, but also a WiFi signal that follows them wherever they are located within a community. Seamlessly integrable into an existing infrastructure, a connectivity foundation delivers a secure WiFi connection via dedicated fiber connectivity throughout the entire property.

Furthermore, it enables operators to future ready all of their PropTech and smart feature investments.

Today's tech stacks and smart features are becoming increasingly sophisticated and depend on robust capabilities for the built environment. When that is securely in place, the lifeforce of those revolutionary amenities and services, community-wide WiFi, can flow consistently and uninterrupted.

Only as strong as the foundation

Various PropTech and smart home amenities are at the center of both resident and associate satisfaction. For things like automated and self-service solutions, as well as onsite communication and data collection, WiFi is a crucial component. However, many operators think they can get by just offering WiFi services at their communities, when in reality, they lack adequate connectivity that can support community-wide connectivity.

As the unified backbone of community operations, a connectivity foundation goes beyond simply providing a WiFi service. WiFi may be the most important component of a property's digital infrastructure, but there is more to it. By using an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), a cloud computing model that provides on-demand access to computing resources, operators gain valuable insights that help them adjust and scale as needed.

A connectivity foundation seamlessly integrates into a new or existing infrastructure and offers connection support that reaches the entire community. Of course, It's not only about what works now when it comes to ensuring a community-wide WiFi connection. Operators need to be looking ahead and thinking about what will work in five or 10 years, and a best-in-class foundation for encompassing a reliable WiFi connection accounts for the unknown. With the average resident having approximately 17 devices online at any given time, a stable, reliable infrastructure is no longer optional, it's a mandate!

Built for the future

Almost every piece of technology found in today's communities is WiFi dependent. Operations running on outdated WiFi services will continue to experience avoidable WiFi interruptions until they address the root of the problem - the foundation.

By rethinking how communities stay connected, operators are finding that laying the most capable, fundamental groundwork is needed to optimize the community-wide WiFi experience and meet both modern residents' and associates' expectations. A foundation that supports property-wide WiFi elevates a community from being just another built environment to being a truly connected environment that drives occupancy and NOI.