Covering A Single Floor Indoor Area - Nortel Meridian Companion Reference Manual

Covering a single floor indoor area

Surveying the site
Survey the site by working from one side of the coverage area to the middle of
the coverage area. Then go to the other side of the coverage area and work
back toward the middle until you have mapped all of the coverage area. Check
your floor plan to ensure there are no areas where a portable in the required
coverage area could be outside the range of a cell center.
Note 1: By surveying your site in this way, cell centers are distributed
Note 2: Repeat this procedure until all areas in the required coverage area are
Identifying critical points
1. Identify the initial critical points needed to determine a cell center. (A
critical point is an outer corner of the coverage area, or a point that may
be difficult for the radio signal to reach.)
2. Mark the critical points on the floor plan with
Note: When determining the location of a cell center, you typically use one or
two critical points.
Locating cell centers
1. Set up the CDT transceiver at a critical point and establish a link.
2. Check the floor plan to see if the critical point is within an office area.
If the entire area is office area, use -70 dBm as the cell boundary value.
If there are no, or only a few, users' offices, use -73 dBm as the cell
boundary value.
Note: Refer to your portable user guide for instructions on how to store
3. Measure the range into the coverage area in a few directions to determine
where a cell center can be located and still be within range of the critical
point.
throughout the site. If you survey the site from one end to the other,
you could cluster cell centers at one end of the site.
within range of a cell center. Defining a cell typically takes 25 to 40
minutes.
cell boundary values for later recall.
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