Managed IT · Guanacaste & the Northwest

Boringly reliable IT for properties across Guanacaste and the Northwest.

One contract, one place to send every problem, one team that owns it. Network and voice, Wi-Fi, surveillance, access, site connectivity, and automation for boutique hotels and managed homes across the region, boringly reliable, by design.

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14+ properties · Canada + Costa Rica Remote response first, on site when needed Bilingual EN · ES
Reference network · v3
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monitored 24/7
18 devices · 2 wan
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OPERATING CONDITIONS · GUANACASTE Each condition, plus how the install handles it.
Salt air
5 km from coast
Stainless mounts, sealed enclosures.
Humidity
Year-round
Conformal-coated boards, drying agents in racks.
Brownouts
Rainy season
UPS on every active device, generator-aware.
Lightning
May → Nov
Surge arrest at meter and at every switch.
Heat
Dry season
Active cooling on closed cabinets.
Road dust
Dry season
Filtered intakes; quarterly vac on PoE cams.
One business day
Priority remote response across Guanacaste and the Northwest
Tamarindo · Monteverde · Arenal
14+
Properties managed across Canada and Costa Rica
2000
First IT company, Canada
2022
Maple founded, Guanacaste
What we run

Six systems. One operator. One place to send every problem.

We install and run all six as one job, so when something breaks you send it to one team and we fix it. Most properties run five vendors instead: the Wi-Fi guy, the camera guy, the lock guy, the internet guy, the automation guy. Something breaks, they blame each other, and you're holding the phone. Not every property needs all six. What is installed is managed as one system.

01

Network + Voice

Routers, switches, VLANs, business lines

A property-grade gateway sized to the building, not a consumer box trying to cover 1,400 m². Guests, staff, and cameras each sit on their own network, so a guest streaming on the lounger can't reach the booking laptop printing folios at checkout. Business lines, intercom, and room-to-room paging run through the same setup, one network, one bill, one team when something needs attention.

02

Surveillance

PoE NVR + off-site backup

4K cameras built for the coast, wired in over a single cable for power and data. License plate recognition at the gate, face recognition at the casita door, plain-language search in playback, so "back gate, Tuesday 2pm" is one search away instead of an evening of scrubbing. The second copy goes off-site automatically, with no monthly cloud fee.

03

Access

Smart locks, staff codes, gates

Housekeeping, pool service, gardeners, and guests each get codes that expire on a schedule you set, so the cleaner loses access when the shift ends and the guest at checkout. One set of credentials runs the front gate, the casita, the storage, the Wi-Fi, and the apps your team logs into. When someone leaves, one click cuts the whole chain, instead of changing locks across the property.

04

Wi-Fi

Guest + staff + IoT mesh

Mesh coverage that reaches the pool deck, the casita, and the palapa, with separate networks underneath for guests, staff, and devices. Bandwidth is shaped so guest streaming never slows the booking system, and the captive portal handles guest sign-on so nobody comes to the desk asking for the password.

05

Site connectivity + SD-WAN

ISPs, failover, link monitoring, cross-site fabric

Two providers where the location supports it, with automatic failover when the primary line gets cut, so a backhoe on the road doesn't take down check-in. For properties beyond where fiber reaches, cellular runs as the primary link, with two carriers in the same modem so a regional outage on one rolls automatically to the other. Outbuildings the fiber doesn't reach (the casita, the rancho, the bodega) connect over wireless inter-building links, no trenching across the lot. If you operate multiple properties, they live on one network and run from one console, with the same accounts, same camera view, and same monthly report for all of them.

06

Automation & Sensors

Leak shutoffs, gates, alerts

Leak sensors with auto-shutoff on the main and the pump room, temperature on the kitchen freezer, door contacts on the casita and pool house. Alerts come to us first, not to your phone at 2am, and range covers outbuildings most consumer gear can't reach. Monitoring catches it first. Response starts from the alert, not the complaint.

Where the engagement calls for it

Three more we run when the property needs them.

A

AV / Cast / Signage

Per-room cast, managed signage

Every guest-room TV becomes a cast target, so guests open Netflix or YouTube on their phone and it plays. Nothing to type, no leftover accounts for the next stay. Lobby and shared-space displays run as managed signage from one place: pool hours, restaurant menus, welcome screens, all updated without a USB stick and a ladder.

B

EV Charging

Level 2 chargers on the access system

More guests arrive in EVs every season. The chargers run on the same access system as the front gate, so one card opens the casita and starts the car. Multiple stations share a circuit safely, and load management keeps the breaker from tripping when three guests plug in at once. Optional payment terminal if guest parking becomes a charging revenue line.

C

Backup / NAS

On-property storage

On-property storage for the things you don't want living only in someone's inbox: config backups, vendor contacts, permits, owner files, operational records. Replicated to Canadian infrastructure with versioning, and access by role instead of a shared password, so a deleted file is a recoverable file, not a phone call to your accountant.

How a Maple property is layered

From endpoints to your own software, five layers, and one operator answering for all of them.

Each layer is owned end-to-end so a cable in the wrong port at 11pm is flagged overnight and fixed first thing.

  1. 01

    Endpoints

    What guests and staff touch

    TVs, tablets, the booking laptop, the door pad, the leak sensor. Everything labelled, MAC-mapped, and OS-current.

  2. 02

    Network

    The wiring and radio

    Cat6 to every drop, fiber where the run is over 90m, three SSIDs, dual-WAN. The boring part that decides everything.

  3. 03

    On-site systems

    What runs in the rack

    NVR, controller, NAS for backups, UPS, surge protection. Behind a locked vented door with a temperature alarm.

  4. 04

    Remote management

    What runs from our desk

    Live dashboards, alert routing, monthly reports to the owner, a calendar of what was touched and why.

  5. 05

    Software

    What the business runs on

    Direct booking, guest registration, housekeeping schedules, invoicing, review requests, email capture. Built once and owned outright, code and data. Hosted and checked every night like the other four layers, so when it breaks it goes to the same team.

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Service area

Coverage across Guanacaste and the Northwest, from the Pacific coast to the Arenal foothills.

Permanent operations in Guanacaste. Reach extends into the Arenal foothills, northern Puntarenas, and the southern Nicoya peninsula as far as Sámara and Nosara, roughly within two hours of Liberia. Sites outside the on-call corridor are scheduled, not on-call.

GUANACASTE & NORTHWEST · DRIVE TIME FROM LIBERIA ~3 H ~1.5 H ~45 MIN Liberia Bahía Panamá Papagayo Playa Hermosa Playas del Coco Ocotal Filadelfia Potrero Flamingo Playa Conchal Huacas Santa Cruz Tamarindo Nicoya Avellanas Playa Negra Junquillal Sámara Carrillo Nosara Bagaces Cañas Tilarán Nuevo Arenal La Fortuna Monteverde Tambor Montezuma Santa Teresa
Operating from Liberia Within ~3h drive
How a managed property runs

What we do between 8am and 6pm so you don't have to.

  1. 07:42 System

    Overnight UPS test passes

    UPS units cycled at 03:00, runtime logged per battery.

  2. 08:15 Maple

    Morning sweep

    Engineer reviews the dashboard. Today's cleaner codes set to expire, a camera blip overnight. Nothing to act on.

  3. 09:30 Owner

    Booking sync

    New booking pushes to the door system automatically. Code generated, SMS sent at check-in.

  4. 11:08 Sensor

    Pool-pump leak detector trips

    Verified on camera, line shut remotely, on-site partner dispatched. Owner notified after the fix is scoped, not before.

  5. 13:00 ISP

    Kölbi fiber blip

    Starlink failover takes over on its own, with no one walking to the rack.

  6. 16:45 Maple

    Evening report

    Short message to the property manager. What broke, what we fixed, what the owner doesn't need to read.

  7. 21:30 System

    Nightly snapshot

    NVR footage, controller config, NAS backup pushed off-site.

Track record · Canada → Costa Rica

Canada to Guanacaste. Same playbook.

The Canadian practice has run continuously since 2000. Maple Connection extends that practice into Costa Rica, with permanent operations in Guanacaste.

Owners and managers

What clients say
after the dust settles.

“We stopped getting Wi-Fi complaints. That's it. That's the review.”
Owner · 4-bedroom villa · Tamarindo Client since 2023
“Most of our owners are out of the country, and the technology calls used to be the worst part of this job: three different technicians and nobody accountable. Now it all goes to Josh. One message, and most of it is fixed remotely before I've finished my rounds. He won't take a property without assessing it first, which honestly is why I trust him.”
Sara Tibbets · Property Manager Client since 2022
“The first month they replaced cables I didn't know existed. Five years of slow internet, fixed in a morning.”
Owner · Villa Solana · Playa Negra Client since 2024

What it costs.

Prices start from the plans below; the exact monthly figure comes with the plan after the site walk.

Plans

Pick the plan that matches your property.

Same systems, same standard, one team that answers. The plan is how many properties and how big. Prices are starting points in USD: every property is quoted after we walk it.

PLAN 01

Villa

One home or rental: a villa, a casa, a private estate.
  • Network and Wi-Fi sized to the property, guest and staff devices kept apart
  • Cameras with local recording and an off-site copy you own
  • Gates and doors on codes that expire on a schedule
  • Two ways online, with automatic switchover
  • Leak and temperature sensors that alert us first

Takeover from $1,200 · Managed from $450/mo per property

USD, month-to-month. Equipment at cost, and you own it.

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PLAN 02

Small resort

A boutique hotel, lodge or posada with guests on site every night.
  • Everything in Villa, sized to the rooms and common areas
  • Guest Wi-Fi built for a full house, kept apart from the front desk and staff
  • Cameras and door codes set up for staff turnover and guest turnover
  • Backup connectivity watched so a dead link is fixed before guests notice
  • A monthly report on what we checked and what we changed

Quoted per property

USD. Sized by the rooms, the buildings and the systems.

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PLAN 03

Multi-property

Two or more properties run as one operation.
  • Everything in Small resort, at every property
  • One written standard, held the same at each property
  • Every property watched from one place
  • One monthly report across the whole portfolio
  • One team that answers for all of it

Quoted per property

USD. Sized by the number of properties and systems.

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BASED Guanacaste
RANGE Guanacaste & the Northwest
RESPONSE Remote response first, on site when needed
OPERATING Canada since 2000 · Costa Rica since 2022
LANGUAGE English · Spanish