Guest Wi-Fi, captive portal and PM-WANI compliance

OMNISPOT

OMNISPOT is a cloud platform for businesses offering Wi-Fi to their customers: a fully customisable captive portal, multiple login methods, regulation-compliant logging and retention, and native support for PM-WANI so a PDO or PDOA can run a compliant public Wi-Fi service.

Who it's for

Hotels, cafés, restaurants, co-working and co-living spaces, PGs, malls, hospitals, transport hubs, and PDOs and PDOAs operating public Wi-Fi under PM-WANI.

Captive portalPM-WANIOTP and social loginCompliant logging
PM-WANI
ready for PDO and PDOA roles
8+
guest login methods
Branded
portal, not a default splash

Free Wi-Fi is a promise most venues break at the login screen.

The guest connects, gets an unbranded portal, cannot work out how to log in, and gives up. The venue gets nothing: no data, no marketing consent, no idea who is on the network — and in most jurisdictions, no compliant record of it either.

The guest network is a customer touchpoint. Most of them look like a 2009 error page.

What it costs you today

  • Generic splash pages that look nothing like the venue
  • Login methods that fail for foreign guests without a local number
  • No identity record when a regulator asks for one
  • A captive audience with no way to reach them again

How OMNISPOT works

The decisions that shape the platform, and why they were made that way.

01

A portal that looks like your brand

Build the splash page from your own logo, imagery, colours and copy, in the languages your guests actually read. Different portals for different properties, or different portals for lobby and conference floor on the same property.

02

Login methods that match the venue

A hotel verifies against the room number and folio. A café sends a one-time password. A co-working space issues vouchers per membership tier. A conference uses a coupon code. You pick per site, and you can offer more than one.

03

Compliance built in, not bolted on

Identity is captured at login, sessions are logged with the detail regulators expect, and retention is enforced to the period your jurisdiction requires. When somebody asks who was on the network at a given time, there is an answer.

04

Ready for PM-WANI

For operators in India, the platform supports the PM-WANI framework end to end: WANI-compliant access points as a PDO, and the aggregation, authorisation and accounting functions of a PDOA, including token handling and the central registry interactions the framework specifies.

What you get

  • Drag-and-drop captive portal builder with full brand control
  • Login by mobile OTP, email, social, voucher, coupon or room number
  • Property management system integration for hotel guest verification
  • PM-WANI compliant operation for PDO and PDOA roles
  • Regulation-compliant identity capture, logging and retention
  • Bandwidth, time and data quotas per plan and per user
  • Paid access with vouchers, packages and payment gateway integration
  • Marketing consent capture with export to your CRM
  • Guest analytics: footfall, dwell time, repeat visits and device mix
  • Multi-property management with per-site branding and reporting

What your team works in

The operator console, from the estate-wide view down to a single guest session.

OMNISPOT: One view across every property
01 One view across every property Guest logins, active sessions, data served and login-method mix, rolled up across the whole estate.
OMNISPOT: Live sessions as they happen
02 Live sessions as they happen Who is connected, at which venue, by which login method, on what device — with quota state visible.
OMNISPOT: Design the portal, not a ticket
03 Design the portal, not a ticket Branding, languages, login methods and session policy per venue, with a live preview.
OMNISPOT: Manage the whole estate
04 Manage the whole estate Hotels, cafés, coworking and coliving in one list, with access-point health and portal assignment.
OMNISPOT: PM-WANI, evidenced
05 PM-WANI, evidenced Registry sync, session records and retention state — the answer ready before the regulator asks.

Capabilities in full

Everything the platform does, grouped by the team that uses it.

Captive portal

  • Visual portal builder with live preview
  • Per-site and per-SSID portal assignment
  • Multi-language portals with automatic selection
  • Custom terms of service and consent wording
  • Video, image and sponsored-content splash options
  • Walled-garden allow-lists before authentication
  • Mobile-first responsive layouts
  • Post-login redirect to your own page

Authentication

  • Mobile one-time password by SMS
  • Email verification and magic links
  • Social login for guests without a local number
  • Voucher and coupon codes with expiry
  • Room number and folio via PMS integration
  • RADIUS and 802.1X for staff networks
  • Self-registration with approval workflow
  • Repeat-visit recognition to skip re-registration

PM-WANI

  • PDO deployment on WANI-compliant access points
  • PDOA aggregation, authorisation and accounting
  • WANI token handling per the framework specification
  • App Provider interworking for single-click connect
  • Central registry data caching and synchronisation
  • Access point, SSID and location registration
  • Session and usage accounting per subscriber
  • Network address translation record retention

Commercial and analytics

  • Free, freemium and paid access tiers
  • Time, data and bandwidth quotas per plan
  • Payment gateway integration for paid sessions
  • Marketing opt-in capture with consent record
  • Guest data export to CRM and email platforms
  • Footfall, dwell time and repeat-visit reporting
  • Device, OS and browser mix analytics
  • Per-property and group-level dashboards

Where it gets deployed

Hotels and resorts

Room-number login through the property management system, tiered bandwidth for standard and premium guests, and branding per property.

Cafés and restaurants

One-tap OTP access with a branded splash, time quotas that turn tables over, and a marketing list that grows with every visit.

Co-working and co-living

Voucher-based access per membership tier, per-user quotas, and usage reporting that supports how you bill.

PGs and student housing

Per-resident credentials, fair-use quotas and the identity records that shared accommodation is required to keep.

Malls and transport hubs

High-density public Wi-Fi with sponsored splash content and analytics on footfall and dwell time.

PM-WANI operators

Run a compliant public Wi-Fi business as a PDO or PDOA, with the token handling, accounting and registry integration the framework requires.

Common questions

What is PM-WANI and do we need it?

PM-WANI is the Indian government framework for public Wi-Fi. It separates the venue operator that hosts access points (the PDO) from the aggregator that handles authorisation and accounting (the PDOA) and the app that users connect through. If you are offering public Wi-Fi commercially in India, operating under the framework is how you do it compliantly, and the platform supports both the PDO and PDOA roles.

What records does the platform keep?

Guest identity captured at login, session start and end times, data consumed, the access point used and address translation records, retained for the period your jurisdiction requires. Retention is configurable because the requirement differs by country.

Can guests log in without a local mobile number?

Yes, which matters for any venue with international visitors. Alongside mobile OTP the platform supports email verification, social login, vouchers, coupon codes and property management system lookup, and you can offer several at once.

Does it work with our existing access points?

It works with any access point that supports standard captive portal redirection and RADIUS. Deployed alongside OMNIFI you also get the wireless management — RF optimisation, firmware, remote troubleshooting — from the same platform.

Put OMNISPOT in front of your own network

Bring your CPE models, your protocol mix and your integration constraints. A solutions engineer will show you what the platform does with them — no slides.