{"id":180,"date":"2017-02-25T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/?p=180"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:33:14","slug":"monitoring-outdoor-wifi-coverage-using-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2017\/02\/25\/monitoring-outdoor-wifi-coverage-using-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Outdoor WIFI Coverage using Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT Services always aims at providing a good WIFI signal coverage within the university for staff and students. With\u00a0more and more mobile users, how to detect the WIFI signal strength and maintain a stable WIFI connection is one of\u00a0the key challenges. More WIFI access points were planed and installed last year to help with the situation. However,\u00a0to maintain the service quality, we still need to monitor the WIFI signal coverage effectively. In such context, the\u00a0UOB Drone Forum proposed an experiment of using drones to monitor outdoor WIFI coverage.<\/p>\n<p>In the experiment, an outdoor WIFI heat map of the main university campus was created. A WIFI heat map shows the\u00a0real-time coverage and quality of a wireless infrastructure overlaid on a map. It gives an approximate location of the access point and the places where the users can find the best average signal. It can be used for diagnosing signal\u00a0problems, adjusting wireless access point setting or location for maximum speed, signal quality and best coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.birmingham.ac.uk\/it\/innovation\/documents\/public\/Experiments\/Monitoring-Outdoor-WIFI-Coverage-using-Drones.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full report\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WNFUBbvX8nk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT Services always aims at providing a good WIFI signal coverage within the university for staff and students. With\u00a0more and more mobile users, how to detect the WIFI signal strength and maintain a stable WIFI connection is one of\u00a0the key challenges. More WIFI access points were planed and installed last year to help with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2017\/02\/25\/monitoring-outdoor-wifi-coverage-using-drones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monitoring Outdoor WIFI Coverage using Drones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}