Why a Pocket Router Is All Poly Speaker Needs

Traditional Tour Guide Audio Systems can involve transmitters, receivers, chargers, carrying cases, and other equipment.

Poly Speaker takes a much simpler approach.

The guide needs only two things: their own smartphone and a small pocket Wi-Fi router.

What Does the Pocket Router Do?

The pocket router creates the local Wi-Fi network used by the tour.

It does not provide the audio itself. It simply creates the local communication network that allows the guide's smartphone and the tourists' smartphones to communicate.

The guide opens PolySpeaker Broadcast on their own smartphone and speaks normally.

Tourists use PolySpeaker Listener on their own smartphones to hear the guide.

No internet connection is required.

Why a Pocket Router?

A pocket router is small enough to carry easily throughout a tour.

The guide does not need to depend on an available internet connection or ask a venue to provide Wi-Fi for the tour.

The same basic setup can be used indoors or outdoors.

Turn on the pocket router, create the tour in Broadcast, and the local network is ready for the group.

What Does the Guide Actually Carry?

The guide's smartphone is not additional equipment. It is simply the guide's own phone, running PolySpeaker Broadcast.

The additional equipment is the pocket router.

The router's power arrangement depends on the particular router model. Some pocket routers have their own battery; others require an external power source.

A power bank may therefore be useful with some routers, but it is not a Poly Speaker requirement.

Poly Speaker itself requires a smartphone and a pocket Wi-Fi router.

No Internet. No Receiver Inventory.

The router creates a local network for the tour, so Poly Speaker does not depend on mobile data or internet access.

And because tourists use their own smartphones, the guide does not need to carry a collection of receivers.

Whether the group contains five listeners or thirty, the guide still carries one pocket router.

Small Enough to Forget About

The important thing about the pocket router is not the technology inside it.

It is the fact that it is small, portable, and dedicated to creating the local network for the tour.

Instead of carrying a collection of audio equipment for the entire group, the guide carries one pocket router and their own smartphone.

One guide. One smartphone. One pocket router.

That's the basic setup behind Poly Speaker.