Success Case
Connected Hospital – Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo
DAS & Small Cells
The Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy, has 1,200 beds spread over seven five-storey buildings, each connected to a central building.
The hospital was opened in 2012 and already back then it was considered vital to provide it with connectivity through a multi-operator system of DAS (Distributed Antenna System) and Small Cells to guarantee complete mobile signal coverage to all patients, staff and visitors.
A couple of years later, in 2014, Cellnex expanded the project by also connecting the 270,000 square metres of the auditorium.
In 2020, in the wake of the health crisis that so harshly affected the province of Bergamo, the company began working on the design and installation of a DAS network also on the five floors of building 2, which includes a 10,000 square-metre paediatric ward.
More information: Hospitals connected to the future
Challenges
- 1,404 beds
- Total surface: 135,000 sqm
- Covered surface: 120,000 sqm
Solution
- SISO solution
- 320 antennas
- 7 RUs
The quality of the mobile network signal had already been analysed during the various construction phases of the hospital. After rejecting the idea of simply transporting the “aerial” signal from the outside to the inside, a solution was chosen that would guarantee excellent coverage while remaining flexible and scalable.
Fabrizio Zampoleri
_Head of Telecommunications at the Papa Giovanni XXII Hospital
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