Case Study Forecourts

Fuelling every brand on the forecourt with secure connectivity.

Guest Wi-Fi, conference events and back-of-house systems on one network—safely isolated from each other.

The challenge

Forecourts run fuel pumps, convenience tills and back-office systems alongside public Wi-Fi, often on a single local connection shared with multiple co-located tenants and brands.

Any outage or bandwidth spike can knock card machines offline, halting fuel and convenience sales, while an unmanaged guest network risks exposing operational systems to the same footprint customers connect to — a growing concern as forecourt retail becomes a target for payment-focused cyberattacks.

"Sudden surges can completely collapse the network, driving down guest Wi-Fi speeds and crippling hotel systems."

The solution

Cloud Group works closely with its extensive partner network of IT professionals and resellers to deploy iShield — a next-generation Smart Access Unified Threat Management Device — across forecourt and convenience retail sites nationwide.

The results

Failover connectivity keeps pumps and tills trading through outages, with back-office systems fully hidden from public Wi-Fi and every site managed from one dashboard.

24/7 uninterrupted trading

Failover connectivity keeps sites online through local outages.

Isolated back-office systems

Pumps and tills stay fully hidden from public Wi-Fi.

One dashboard, every site

Operators manage the whole network from a single cloud panel.

Consistent card payment speed

Prioritised traffic keeps payment gateways fast during peak forecourt trading.

Compliance-ready logging

Identity-based logs simplify audits and regulatory reporting.

Reduced IT maintenance costs

DynDNS remote access lets partners troubleshoot without an on-site callout.

“Keeping every pump, till and back-office system online—no matter what happens to the primary connection—used to be our biggest headache. iShield solved it.”

— Cloud Group IT Partner & Forecourt Infrastructure Specialist

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