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Quick Help
01/06/2015
Tarlogic Security SL
www.acrylicwifi.com
In this window, you will need to fill in all project identification information such as project name, project
description, and client or company name.
To create a site survey project, you are required to use locations, which put together all measurements
performed at a specific site. In a new project, you can create new locations and have some locations
depend on others. For example, a project can have two different locations, Building A and Building B,
and each one of them can contain other locations, such as Ground Floor and First Floor. The project
can be edited at any time, and new locations can be added from the project window.
Once all the parameters are defined, click on Add Location to add that location to the project location
tree.
Once all the locations have been added, click on the OK button to create the site survey project and to
start working on it.
You can check your projects parameters on the Project Manager window, which can be accessed from
the Project menu. Bear in mind that, at this point, you still have not added any blueprints or satellite
maps to your project, one of the softwares main functionalities.
Measurements are to be performed directly over a satellite map, for example, for an outdoor
site survey or when using a GPS device.
If a blueprint will be used for the coverage analysis, which is recommended, and after selecting the
blueprint upload option, the following window will be shown. The first step is selecting the blueprint
image file. Supported formats are: jpg, jpeg, bmp, tiff, gif, and png.
After selecting the image file, you will have two calibration options: assisted calibration for
geopositioning the blueprint, and manual calibration, for using when a blueprint scale is available.
On the upper corner you can select the satellite map provider of your choice (Google Maps, Bing, etc.)
and use the search field to move to a specific location.
When selecting the site survey location, you may want to unmark the Blueprint Image Visible box to
then use the zoom selector until finding the target building.
In this last step, we show the building blueprint once again and use the size and rotation selector until
adjusting the blueprint image to the Wi-Fi site survey location.
Bear in mind that the blueprint can be re-calibrated at any time while keeping all the previous
measurement references. If the calibration fails to be accurate, the blueprint area could be too large,
and this could negatively impact the generated coverage maps.
In this process, you must indicate the distance between two points. Position on a specific area in the
blueprint and then click on one point.
The following step consists on selecting another point in the blueprint to calculate the distance between
the two points.
To complete the calibration, you have to enter the distance between the two points, in meters or feet.
Normal Mode: A wireless card normally operated on this mode. On this mode, a wireless card
captures the information on the Wi-Fi networks within reach, and it allows you to detect access
point beacon messages, as well as devices operating on ad-hoc mode.
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On this mode, you will not be able to survey the following values:
Device Density.
Packet Loss.
Monitor Mode: In this mode, the wireless card can capture all the Wi-Fi traffic within reach, so
a PC equipped with a wireless card working on Monitor mode is able to detect which devices
are sending or receiving Wi-Fiframes within the wireless cards coverage area, and capture
those packets to later analyze them. The Monitor mode provides detailed information about
802.11 standard compliant devices and networks in the wireless card range.
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Compatible wireless cards are required for this mode to properly work.
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Signal quality or Signal to Noise Rate (SNR) is not provided on this mode.
AirPcap Mode: This mode should be selected when capturing data using an AirPcap wireless
card.
Satellite Mode: Monitoring is performed using an online satellite map service. In case the project has a
location blueprint uploaded, it will be overlapped.
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For each measurement point, a list of visible access points with their signal strength levels is displayed
for the current location. You can access measurement data as follows:
1. Performed measurements are shown on the map:
2. Access Points: Shows the positions of all points detected during the monitoring. You can
manually indicate an access point location using the Manual Locate button.
3. Survey Points: Monitoring measurement points. Measurement points can be moved or deleted.
4. Visible Networks: Clicking on a measurement point displays the information on the Wi-Fi
networks detected at that point.
With all the information collected during the Wi-Fi site survey, the next step will be generating Wi-Fi
coverage and heat maps from which you can obtain important information to improve your wireless
network, making the most of the performed Wi-Fi monitoring.
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Select the location for which you are generating the heatmap on the upper bar selector. In our
example, it will be Second floor.
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From this window, you can select a network name, a specific access point, or multiple access points.
After your selection, a Wi-Fi heatmap will be automatically generated, showing the access points
coverage ranges within the surveyed area.
If the selector on the bottom left area Gradient lines is enabled, the Wi-Fi signal strength curves
associated with the heatmap will also be displayed.
The Wi-Fi survey tab collects the information from all the access points for which measurements have
been performed. In this section, it is also possible to select the measurement points and the Wi-Fi
network access points locations.
This process can be applied to all the existing networks within each one of the surveyed locations, for
example, the hotel First floor.
Each one of the icons on the Plot results tab generates a Wi-Fi heatmap with different attributes,
such as Signal-to-Noise Rate (SNR), access point overlapping, or coverage distribution by Wi-Fi cannel.
The Wi-Fi heatmap color scheme, and the value range scale to display can be change at any time.
When selecting the View 3D button, the Wi-Fi heatmap for the selected network will be displayed in
3D. The controls on this windows allows you to rotate the Wi-Fi heatmap and select attributes such as
color range or signal sensibility.
Acrylic Wi-Fi Heatmaps version 2.0 simplifies the Wi-Fi heatmap generation process, while offering the
same powerful features.
Project: Having a site survey project created with at least one location.
Measurements: There should be at least one measurement associated with the locations.
Measurements are geolocalized Wi-Fi traffic captures that are taken using the Online maps
(satellite) or Plans (blueprints) functions from the Survey section.
Report sections with different Wi-Fi map types and their attributes.
A report can be generated in two different formats: as a Microsoft Word document, or as a KMZ file,
for viewing on Google Earth.
The selection of the access points to be included in the report can be done from three different tabs:
In the sorted by physical AP view, you will see a list of APs where the last digit of their respective MAC
addresses (BSSID) is hidden. A physical access point could, for example, create 8 different virtual access
points, propagating 4 networks on 2.4 GHz and these same networks on 5 GHz.
The Wi-Fi site survey report section configuration is very flexible and it has its own attributes such as
color scheme or signal ranges.
After selecting all the options of your choice, clicking on the Generate button will start the Wi-Fi
coverage report generation process. For each selected access point, many different coverage maps are
to be rendered.
From Google Earth, you will also be able to visualize the generated results for each Wi-Fi access point.
You can refer to and download sample Wi-Fi coverage reports generated by Acrylic Wi-Fi Heatmaps in
real environments.