Making Buildings Wireless Friendly

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Making Buildings Wireless Friendly

Improving the Performance of Communication Systems Indoors

Can you not pick up mobile signal in your room?

Have you ever bought a wireless LAN for home that has not performed well?

Have you ever designed a building requiring wireless communication?

Everyone knows there are dead spots where your phone or laptop just won’t pick up a wireless signal. Mostly we get around the problem by moving somewhere else or continuously retrying for a connection. This website aims to explain why your Wireless computer network or mobile phone might not work as well as it should inside buildings.

Wireless communications systems are often compromised by built structures, sometimes to the point where they won’t work at all. For instance there may be rooms in your house, or shops where you can’t pick up your phone network, or times when you’ve tried to use the WiFi on your laptop and got very poor download speeds. Modern buildings can contain a variety of systems that depend critically on wireless links for security, safety and other functions and it is important that they do not suffer from loss of communications. These problems need not be inevitable and they could be reduced by rethinking building design.