Ekahau Oy

Airista Flow, Inc.

Airista International Oy

Timo Vanhatupa

Kari Vasko

Teemu Pulkkinen

Jarno Leppanen

Arttu Huhtiniemi

A solution how to calculate locations scores that depict the quality of specific locations as an installation point of an access point is disclosed. To calculate a location score a network planning area is divided into location topology cells, and in each location topology cell a plurality of predefined metrics that take into account environment are calculated. Then the metrics are converted into metric scores, and from the metric scores a location score for a location topology cell is calculated. Further, a solution in which final positions of access points are determined in a two-step procedure is disclosed. Firstly, initial positions are determined based on received planning information. Then final positions are determined starting from the initial positions and using both planning information and location scores.

Selection tool for access point positions

A network planning tool for a merged plan comprising multi-band access points having radio groups merges at least a first and a second frequency-band-specific plan. Firstly, a set of pairs, each pair having a radio from the first plan as a first element and a radio from the second plan as a second element is created and utilities are assigned to the pairs. Then a subset of pairs that maximizes a sum of utilities and contains any radio from the first and second plan at most once is selected. The merged plan is created by placing radios in a pair in the selected subset into the same radio group and selecting a location of the radio group based on locations of corresponding radios in the first and second frequency-band-specific plans.

Wireless network plan with multi band access points

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Hameenlinna, Finland

Timo Vanhatupa