Security Building

The AutoCAD drawing was sent from the security facility company to be formatted in LanPlanner. Customer gave the required LanPlanner details of the drawing. Which included, the height of the building, the length of the building (only required if drawing is not scale), and obstruction information. The warehouse building is 30 feet tall roughly 450' in length and roughly 250' in width. The building did not have major obstructions that would effect the RF coverage in warehouse area. Also in this drawing on far right hand side customer requested some coverage in the office area.

After the the AutoCAD drawing was inserted into LanPlanner software, LanPlanner will format the building. Formatting the building is a crucial part in the site survey process. In order to accurately predict and measure the RF infrastructure the format process must be accurate. The format process consist of telling LanPlanner from the original drawing what type of obstruction is in the building and what the obstruction is made of and the height of the obstruction.

After the format process, Access Points/Ports can be placed. The security building was predicted to have 2 Motorola AP300's with 2 5Ghz Omni Antenna's for each AP were placed in the warehouse and one in the office area Each AP300 was placed roughly 28 in warehouse and 9' in the office from the ceiling. Each AP300 color represents a channel. For the least amount of channel interference for 802.11b/g, channels 1, 6, & 11 are to be used. Yellow represents channel 1, Red for channel 6. Also the X,Y coordinates were added next to the AP to accurately place each AP throughout the warehouse.

With the AP's placed then LanPlanner can predict the RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indication), SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio), Channels, and the throughput. For this security building LanPlanner predicted the 1 AP would cover the warehouse and 1 AP for the office area. In the colored heat map drawing of the warehouse, each color represents a different amount of RSSI or throughput. RED is a -50dBm(dBm is the power ratio in decibels) or can represent any where from 48Mbs to 54Mbs of throughput. YELLOW is a -60dBm or can also represent anywhere from 36Mbs to 48Mbs of throughput. GREEN is a -70dBm or also represented anywhere from 24Mbs to 36Mbs of throughput.