Professional site survey and heatmapping tool for $399? You kidding me?
January 26, 2012 5 Comments
No, I’m not.
We just released a $399 site survey and heatmapping tool for Android tablets and phones. The product is called Ekahau Mobile Survey 2.0. Thanks to the touch-operated, simple user interface, I believe it’s the most user-friendly enterprise-grade Wi-Fi tool out there .
It’s targeted at IT administrators of small to medium-size networks (think 3 to 50 APs), who don’t necessarily want to spend thousands of dollars on a verification and analysis tool, but could spend $399.
And, of course, it’s targeted for you wireless professionals who want to use a lighter, touch-operated solution – if not for every installation, then at times. It’s also great for making sure the network works on the tablet or phone, which would represent a typical end user device.
The integration with Ekahau Site Survey allows you to get projects from Ekahau Site Survey to your tablet or phone. More importantly, it allows you to perform a survey on a tablet or a phone, and then export that to Ekahau Site Survey for in-depth analysis and reporting.
Because Ekahau Mobile Survey 2.0 is affordable, companies with a larger number of engineers can now easily equip all of those with a professional tool.
Naturally, the tool comes with all the features in Ekahau Mobile Survey 1.0, it’ also a great on-the-spot analysis and troubleshooting tool. And, it’s the only tool to perform continual monitoring from the end user device perspective.
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Jussi / Ekahau
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Hi. This may be cool. Is there any Information regarding scanning times per Sample point ?
Regards Rene
Rene, the scan time really comes down to the tablet. For abgn models, it seems to be a few secs, just like ESS when scanning abgn. For bgn, it’s about once per sec typically.
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Jussi
Hi Jussi. Is there any Hardware recommended or preferred by the developers in terms of scanning time and dual band?
Regards Rene
This has the same features as the site survey tool that runs on a laptop? I’ve seen our wireless vendor come out with the full version on his laptop and the demo version is lacking in flexibility but this could be a great solution so we don’t have to spend on a support call and have a field engineer come out to walk around with his laptop.
Wayne, Mobile Survey is a fully functional site survey/heatmapping tool. And I would say it’s a bit easier to learn and use, and more convenient, than a laptop-based site survey tool.
It’s great for the purpose you’re describing: You can perform quick map-based walk-through site surveys easily. And when you don’t have time or energy to perform map-based site surveys, it allows you to make quick, easy, and comprehensive on-the-spot network tests (these are active+passive).
However, Mobile Survey does not have all the features of Ekahau Site Survey Standard or Ekahau Site Survey Pro. For example, it lacks network planning, advanced heatmaps (for example data rate, estimated throughput, etc), hybrid survey, and adapter simulation.
I hope this helps.
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Jussi / Ekahau