Shopping Mall Wi-Fi

Sample Design Ideas for a robust System

Why ? To Wi-Fi

• Next time you’re in a shopping mall, take a minute to count the number of people tapping something into their iPhones or Android smartphones. Making updates to Facebook, e-mailing photos, and even checking product reviews before making a big purchase are as common as chatting with friends via cell phone while shopping.

• Like airports and cafés, an increasing number of retailers are offering Wi-Fi as an amenity, so customers will have a better shopping experience and spend more time in the store—regardless of whether cellular companies can deliver a reliable data signal indoors. "Consumers expect to be connected wherever they are," “Shoppers are embracing the use of Wi-Fi in malls."

Wi-Fi Application Goal

• A. Wi-Fi for shopping customers only is the easy design and install. Access Points such as our CAP2405N MIMO 500mw AP will only need be deployed in the hallways at a 150-200 meter frequency, you can go up to 500 meters between each one as the standard connection between a Laptop or I-pad is 250 meters . Since you target only hallway users this is considered LOS , line of sight.

Con’t

• B. Wi-Fi for shopping customers and Retail store coverage requires more Access Points such as our CAP2405N MIMO 500mw AP to be deployed in the hallways at a 20-40 meter frequency, The reason for this is to penetrate deep inside the retail stores. Consider that the AP signal may not be outside every store so it has to pass through several walls and reach the back of each store. This is now considered a mixture of LOS and NLOS.

CAP2405N ACCESS POINT

2.4GHz, 500mW, 802.11NGB

Advanced MIMO technology: 300Mbps (2T2R)

Multi-functional: AP/Bridge/repeater

Powerful network security with 64/128-bit WEP, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, WPA/WPA2 encryption

Auto MDI/ MDIX Support VLAN & SNMP Watchdog function no

lock-up Gigabit Auto-negotiation

LAN port for LAN connection

Support power POE , not need local electrical outlet .

Wi-Fi Performance V 3G

One may ask why 3G works so good inside malls, Airports, and other large venues . The main reason is that there are multiple 3G antennas and transmitters also installed inside these places, Its not working from a Tower several miles away, its inside next to your cell phone.

So same if you expect Wi-Fi to perform you need to provide adequate AP installs for performance coverage.

When there are several competing Cell company's they may actually pay the mall a rental fee to be allowed to install their MINI antennas to enhance their service coverage.

They also may want to share your Wi-Fi Access Points for Wi-Fi hand off , again allowing a faster experience for their clients and off loading burden from their network.

In the next slides you will see a Mall install, the system was done using last years Model above, now all current designs use our new CAP2405N 300Mbps 500mw AP below

In this Shopping mall they are actually receiving monthly rental revenue from 3 Competing cell company's, to enhance their signal coverage, This added income paid for the Shopping malls Wi-Fi

Always Remember Wi-Fi Survey for channel and signal quality checks

The lower the dBm value the stronger the signal. So anything below 72dBm is acceptable , -50dBm is excellent !!!

Bandwidth and Billing Management Server