Event Technologies · Systems integration · Off-grid
20,000 people online. No cell service.
Custom systems integration, engineered from the battery up. Power, networking, WiFi, payments, and guest connectivity, designed as one system and deployed where there’s nothing — no grid, no fiber, no signal.
A field in the middle of nowhere. By gates-open we have a working internet for tens of thousands of people — payments, dashboards, staff comms, security, maps, and live announcements — all of it running on sunlight. This is the Festival WiFi Guys showcase: the place we prove that an entire connected venue can be built from scratch on bare ground.
The old way was one router, a 40-foot tower, and a stack of Starlinks trying to blast a single crowded signal across the whole site. We replaced it with something smaller, tougher, and far more capable: LinkSwarm — a swarm of solar-powered micro-networks that blanket the venue with bandwidth and quietly hand guests off from node to node as they roam.
Power is the foundation
Everything on this page hangs off one thing: a power system that doesn’t need the grid. Before there’s a network, there’s a battery. Before there’s WiFi, there’s a solar panel charging it. We size solar and battery for the job, then build the whole stack on top — radios, switches, access points, cameras, payments — so the internet stays up for days on nothing but sunlight.
- Solar + battery, sized to the load — runtime engineered around the actual draw of the radios, APs, and Starlink they have to carry.
- Days of off-grid runtime — built to ride through cloudy days and all-night sets without a generator.
- Self-contained nodes — each box is its own power plant, so coverage scales by dropping more nodes, not by running more cable.
- Charge the camp, too — the same nodes give guests and crew somewhere to power their devices.
Solar systems, three sizes.
Self-contained solar and battery nodes that run for days without the grid. Pick a node for the job — they all mesh together into one network.
Bucky
One device. Solar and battery, 24/7. A self-powered WiFi access point built to mesh with every other Bucky on site — drop them where the crowd is and let the network find itself.
- 1× solar + battery AP node
- 24/7 off-grid runtime
- Self-meshing coverage
- Deploy in minutes
Podboi
Three devices on one solar & battery node: connect your 60GHz point-to-point radio, aim it at the sector antenna, stand up two wired APs, then mesh further out with Bucky nodes. A pod that turns one backhaul link into a neighborhood.
- 60GHz P2P backhaul in
- Sector antenna distribution
- 2× wired access points
- Meshes with Bucky nodes
LinkSwarm
Solar and battery sized to run a Starlink, a sector antenna, and a cluster of access points — all from one box. Drop ten of them and you have ten micro-networks covering the crowd with ten times the bandwidth and ten times less overhead than one tower.
- Powers Starlink + sector + APs
- One box = one micro-site
- 10 sites > 1 mega-tower
- Grid-independent by design
WiFi at scale
Getting tens of thousands of people online in a dead zone is a spectrum problem before it’s anything else. Pack everyone onto crowded 2.4 and 5GHz and the air collapses. We engineer around it.
- Point-to-multipoint 60GHz distribution — move the backhaul up to clean 60GHz spectrum and free the crowded 2.4/5GHz bands for the people who actually need them.
- Pods, not towers — Podboi distribution pods break the site into sectors so no single radio is doing all the work.
- Meshing — Bucky nodes self-organize into a fabric that fills the gaps between pods.
- High-density zones — stages, food courts, and entrances get purpose-built capacity for thousands of devices in a tight footprint.
From “I accept the terms” to Apple Pay.
The captive portal is where the network meets the guest. We take it from a checkbox to a product: tap-to-pay onboarding, user dashboards, and seamless cross-site authentication so guests log in once and stay connected as they travel from node to node — no re-authenticating every time they cross the field.
That same portal can sell access, take payments, and turn a guest’s phone into the remote control for their whole festival.
Anyone with a Starlink can run the network.
Pair a LinkSwarm with Festival WiFi Guys portal technology and the operator changes. A camp, a vendor, a promoter — anyone with a Starlink and a box — can light up service across the venue, earn from providing guest WiFi, power their own internet, and charge their devices, all without us on site.
Ten small operators, ten solar stations, one seamless network. That’s the future of crowd WiFi in cell-restricted places.
Staff access & comms
Out with the shared password taped to the production trailer. In with secure, access-controlled networks where every staff member gets their own multi-device login — without you burning a hundred hours on a spreadsheet.
- Identity, not passwords — per-person, multi-device credentials, provisioned and revoked in seconds.
- Gen-2 VPNs — printer on node 3, user on node 12? No problem. Everything on the site behaves like one flat, private network no matter which solar node it’s hanging off.
- GPS-tracked radios — see your whole crew on a live map.
- Mission planning — mapping software, photos, notes, and step-by-step records of how it was built last year. Teamwork and project management, built for the field.
Site-wide, not just WiFi
Once the whole site is on one network, the hard problems get easy. The internet stops being an amenity and becomes the nervous system of the event.
- Lighting at scale — distribute DMX across ten million square feet of land from one control point.
- Commerce, bridged — merch, bar, food, ticketing, and access control finally talk to each other. Challenges once thought herculean become a config.
- Safety, security & privacy, balanced — live camera monitoring with footage stored locally that never leaves the site and overwrites on a schedule. Local-only AI flags threats, medical emergencies, and public-safety events for your team to react before they become lawsuits — cutting risk, insurance cost, and liability.
- One app for the crowd — maps that guide guests to whatever they want, vendors showcasing wares to people half a mile away with buy-now-ship-later orders, stages pushing artist and schedule updates, and admins broadcasting emergency notifications — all from one place.
Decommodify your festival. Give people a place to exist — shaded, hydrated, connected — without the pressure to keep moving and keep spending.Charge & Chill — WiFi / Arts / Music
The Charge & Chill experience is a shaded, vibed, connected lounge built into the network itself: creative seating, tables for the laptop work that couldn’t wait until Monday, power to charge every device, and WiFi to reconnect with the friends you lost in the crowd. Hospitality as infrastructure.
We don’t just deploy systems. We build the software too.
The same hands that engineer the power and the network write the software that runs on top of it. When the off-the-shelf tool doesn’t exist, we build it.
eleso.app
A platform that makes laser-safety compliance easy: build 3D venues and outdoor shows, place your gear, and get the safety calculations and client-ready paperwork automatically. Share 3D venue models with other operators so nobody builds the same room twice.
- 3D venue + outdoor modeling
- Automated safety calculations
- Shareable venue library
- Built in-house
Amp & preamp selectors
Engineering tools we built for ourselves and opened up: searchable amplifier and preamp selectors that cut through spec sheets to find the right gear for the job. Proof that when we need a tool that doesn’t exist, we write it.
- Amplifier database + selector
- Preamp database + selector
- Spec-driven matching
- lab.alstergee.com