FAQ'S

For wireless surveys and IT projects, we are ready to work with our clients to meet their budget for all of our projects. And by so doing, we can work within the company budget to ensure no budget over-run occurs in order to hand over the project deliverables successfully within the project timeframe. Project payments are to the most part dependent on project milestones completed at when payments are due.

Project timeframes are more or less Client dependent. Once a project timeframe is agreed upon between the client and us, we will work to do our level best to meet the timeline by planning ahead to take care of project risks which often are building access related and unavailability of survey maps or inbuilding surveys. We will work with all of our clients to navigate through potential project risks prior to project commencement in order to ensure a smooth project execution.

All of our clients can use the Contact Us page on this website to send us their requirements and we will respond promptly to contact them to analyze and consolidate what the full and balanced requirements should be in order to arrive at the appropriate requirements specifications. This applies to both wireless design and IT projects. The next step is to draft a Chatter that officially states that we have been assigned the project tasks to accomplish. And the chatter document will serve to signal the official kickoff of the project assignment.

A wireless site survey is an actual physical site survey done onsite using various RF measuring tools to analyze the propagation of RF signals within your facility. In contrast to a predictive site survey, a physical site survey is done in real-time and in a real-world RF environment, which allows for analysis of RF interference and simulations of the applications you plan to use.

To perform the predictive site survey, we will need to know the following:

• Campus or facility areas needed to be covered (Google Earth markups are great for this)
• Buildings that need to be linked by a wireless bridge
• Height of any of the buildings, light poles, etc.… that are to host an access point for bridging
• Indicate any areas where trees, foliage, hills or other obstacles may interfere with the line of sight (LOS) between access points.
• The types of applications or the desired bandwidth to be carried over the bridge or by the access points. (What kind of traffic will be traversing the network between buildings or from outdoors to indoors?)
• Availability of power at each building, light pole, or outbuilding to power access points.
• Availability of data connectivity at each building, light pole or outbuilding to connect the access points to.

The predictive outdoor site survey will provide the following:

• A map layout of the facility or campus with locations where the access points or bridge links will be installed.
• A list of which locations will need power and data or just power.
• A proposal with predicted costs, materials and labor.

• A map layout of the facility or campus with confirmations or adjustments of the locations for where the access points or bridge links will be located.
• A spreadsheet listing the intended installation locations and what will be needed at each location, power & data or just power.
• A proposal with firm costs, materials and labor.
• A statement of work detailing what will be delivered and how.
• Project plan process showing the steps from analysis, design, and deployment support.

A physical site survey is more accurate because you’re evaluating a live environment vs a virtual environment. But it’s not always necessary. If your building environment has a lot of interference (hospital or manufacturing for example) or you want to support latency sensitive applications like Voice over WLAN then you need a physical site survey.

Yes. We suggest a predictive site survey first along with a design discussion about what applications need to be supported as well as an evaluation of the building environment.