PROBLEM STATEMENT

The university is equipped with access points at various locations to enable high speed networking
capabilities . Many of the access points were off line which caused troubles from time to time. Another
problems associated with these access points were that they were made up of relatively older
technology stack.
SOLUTION
The obvious solution was to replace these older access points with newer ones but this alone wasn't
sufficient to enable University wide WI-fi network coverage. One important task was to fix these at
locations that would enable maximum area coverage inside university alongside with constraint that
minimum number of hardware should be used. So basically we were looking towards an optimization
solution.
APPROACH
We started by taking the floor plans of various blocks of our university. Each of us divided our work to
different blocks . We manually marked all the access points with their names and used a metric that
would allow us to know its signal range .For any given access point we set its threshold to 2 bars of
strength on a standard wif-fi meter .The software used for the same was____________ as strength
below that would mean undesirably low communication speed . We used color codes as metric to
distinguish between signals of different access-points.
The majority of time was spent in identifying the signal ranges of nearly 20 access points and locating
them on floor plans that we were provided with so that it would help us to find out new locations for
newer devices.
The Metric that we used is defined as below:

HARDWARE USED
OPEN-MESH
Open Mesh's access points, and cloud controllers worked seamlessly to deploy enterprise-grade
wireless networks at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional networks.
Open Meshs comes with a free cloud based network controller, CloudTrax, that helps build, manage
and monitor wireless networks remotely. With CloudTrax, we can set multiple SSIDs, control
bandwidth for individual users, charge for access, design custom splash pages, monitor network health,
and much more.
Every Open Mesh access point is automatically mesh enabled. That means we could install units like
traditional access points, hardwired to the Internet, and add additional units that only require power
wherever we needed to extend coverage or fill holes. All access points work together to form a selforganizing, self-healing wireless network with seamless roaming between devices. It extends our
network to the furthest reaches of our university. Dead spots didn't stand a chance.