COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

MOTION NO. 4

MOTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

"That this Area Committee calls on the Council to introduce free WiFi in Lucan Village."

REPORT:

It is proposed that free public Wi-Fi may be rolled out as part of the Village Renewal Scheme by South Dublin County Council subject to technical and logistical considerations.  The proposed solution will provide the facility to initially drive users of the service to a single webpage – customisable for advertising or local events.

The objective is to provide free wireless public internet access to the general public and customers of businesses in the main trading area thereby ultimately benefiting businesses, traders and local people.

The technical considerations will include;

• The ideal solution would be centrally managed for ease of network and full graphical visibility.
• Automated notifications of service with remote management facility.

The logistical considerations will include;

• Numerous locations, scalable, and functioning as a single integrated network.
• The ability to drive network traffic to a single webpage - customisable for advertising etc.
• Management reporting and web filtering included.

To this end, various models of deployment are currently being investigated and evaluated by the IT Department with a view towards deploying throughout all villages which are part of the renewal scheme.