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One network standard across every home in your group.

Most care groups inherit networks of different ages, built by different contractors to different standards. We help bring them into line: one design, one approach to security and segmentation, and one team supporting the estate.

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One of several Roche Care Homes properties upgraded as part of a multi-site programme

The problem with inherited networks

Every home different, and nobody with the full picture.

When each home has been networked separately, problems multiply quietly: different equipment, different settings, gaps in security and no consistent records. Rolling out care technology across the group becomes harder because every site behaves differently.

  • Equipment of different ages and makes from site to site
  • Security and segmentation set up differently, or not at all
  • No single view of how each home's network is performing
  • Documentation missing or in different formats
  • Each new care system needing its own workaround in each home

How we approach an estate

Survey, standardise, then roll out in phases.

  1. Survey the estate

    A consistent survey of each home, so sites can be compared like for like and prioritised by risk and need.

  2. Agree a standard

    One network design for the group: segmentation scheme, security rules, naming, equipment families where practical and documentation format.

  3. Plan the programme

    Upgrades phased across the estate to suit budgets, with the most urgent homes first.

  4. Deliver home by home

    Each home upgraded around its own routine and tested against the standard before moving on.

  5. Support consistently

    Monitoring, changes and support applied the same way in every home.

What a standard covers

The same answers in every building.

A group standard doesn't mean identical equipment everywhere. It means each home is designed, configured and documented to the same rules.

Design & security

  • A common segmentation scheme for care, staff, residents, guests and building systems
  • Consistent security rules between segments
  • A defined approach to internet resilience, with backup options assessed site by site

Operation & support

  • Network names and device configuration that staff recognise in every home
  • Documentation in one format, kept up to date
  • A repeatable way to add new care technology across the group

Multi-site experience

Programmes we've delivered.

  • New build · Bradshaw Lodge, Otwell Grove and LNT homes across the UK

    LNT Care Developments

    A single, proven WiFi and data design installed across LNT's new-build care homes — specified before the building opens, with the active network installed and commissioned in a single day once cabling is complete.

    Example home
    Bradshaw Lodge, 66 bedrooms
    Wireless
    28 × UniFi WiFi 7 access points
    Active network install & commissioning
    1 working day, 2 engineers

    OutcomeEach new LNT home opens with a complete, tested network built to the same standard as the last.

    Read the case study

  • Existing homes · Yorkshire

    Roche Care Homes

    A survey-led upgrade across several operational homes, rolled out in phases around care routines, with training and a 12-month on-site support warranty.

    Homes
    Multiple operational sites
    Access points
    14, cloud-managed
    Support
    12-month on-site warranty

    OutcomeReliable coverage across the homes, completed in the client's words "with minimal disruption to the site".

    Read the case study

Questions

Questions from care groups

Do we have to upgrade every home at once?

No. A survey of each home lets you prioritise the sites with the biggest problems or risks, then upgrade the rest in phases to the same standard as budgets and timescales allow.

Will you replace all the existing equipment?

Not necessarily. Some homes may be close to the standard already and need reconfiguration rather than replacement. The survey shows what each site needs.

Can you work alongside our IT team or IT provider?

Yes. We can work alongside an in-house IT team or a managed service provider, agreeing who looks after which part of the network and how changes are made.

Can new homes in our pipeline be built to the same standard?

Yes. Agreeing the standard early means new developments can be specified to it from design stage, so they open matching the rest of the estate.

Bring your estate to one standard.

Tell us how many homes you run and how their networks are looked after today.

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