Sistem Manajemen HotspotBerbasis Kuota Waktu dan Paket Data

Ease offered by wireless technology has resulted in many emerging hotspot area that provides Internet access service. Issues to be faced in the provision of Internet access with wireless LAN is about management of Internet hotspot usage as well as its billing system. Therefore, it require an authentication mechanism to guard hotspot from unauthorized users, one of them is by using freeRadius server which is based on RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service). freeRadius server is then connected to a captive portal Chillispot as an authentication portal for user. Application design and development using DFD modelling which is implemented in PHP as a middleware to build graphical interface and application logic for the management of hotspots. With the utilization of RADIUS-based hotspot management system, it can authenticate registered user which have an access to hotspot, and will reject any unauthorized user. Access control can be made based on the length of usage time (time based) and the use of data packet (volume based) with bandwidth restrictions for each user. Hotspot transaction management is done using prepaid system by voucher and postpaid with membership. Management of users, billing plan, vouchers, and operator can be done more easily and flexible, with the convenience of a centralized web-based control panel which can be accessed from various operating systems and browsers. Keywords : Internet, hotspot, radius, authentication, 802.1X