Real measurement of optimal access point localizations
Riam M. Zaal, Florim Mustafa, Eyad I. Abbas, Mahmood F. Mosleh, Maan M. Abdulwahid
Abstract
Abstract The widely applied location-based services require a high standard for positioning technology. With the development of the wireless communication technology, the positioning services based on Wi-Fi are increasingly demanded. To understand the positioning accuracy limits under a certain given Access Point topology and to be able to make design recommendations. This paper proposed a method for proper deployment of AP devices on the building of the electrical department in the university of technology and computing the measurements of the Received Signal Strength (RSS). Received Signal Strength measurement was obtained from different received points located within the targeted building. Many software can be used for the measuring of RSS values. In our work, it has been used Net Spot pro software. Net Spot is a software tool for wireless network assessment, scanning, and surveys, analyzing Wi-Fi coverage and performance. RSS reading were measured for four directions (North-South-East – West). It should mention that each RSS measurement obtained per each direction, is actually the average of 4 RSS measurement samples. This trend is to provide more accurate results than a single measurement Floor layout has been designed and imported to the software and used to allocate the measurements in the exact received point locations. The objective of this paper is to achieve full coverage area with less number of AP devices and reduce the total implementation costs.