RF surveys equip WiFi engineers with precision coverage
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RF Surveys has launched a nation-wide and independent site WiFi coverage surveys service. Backed by a team of RF engineers equipped with the test equipment, the surveys help to optimise WiFi network performance and eliminate coverage ‘blackholes’.
RF Surveys is part of auto ID company Barcoding.co.uk, and the surveys come on the back of technology innovations allowing testing of the performance of specific devices rather than relying on PC-based receivers.
Its new RF WiFi survey kit measures signal strength, noise and bandwidth both to and from access points, and with greater precision than previously possible.
The new survey tools also incorporate proprietary ProSurvey software and a purpose-built mobile wireless platform that enables sample readings to be taken up to 10 metres up – important for large warehouses.
“The methodologies we have developed ensure that specified bandwidth and coverage requirements are guaranteed. This means that the final configuration gives optimum performance from the first day of operation, eliminating the operational difficulties that so often occur when systems go live,” says Tom Sealby, wireless network’s manager at RF Surveys.
“Most tools use a PCMCIA card in a laptop and most manufacturers only cover their own hardware. We are agnostic and can record access point information from Cisco, Symbol, Proxim, HP, Gemtek, Avaya. We can normally use the devices due to be installed or set the minimum signal threshold of the customer’s chosen devices, ensuring very real statistics from devices like WiFi VoIP handsets, PDAs, laptops, mobile computers, printers and barcode terminals,” he adds.
