About Floorplans
Floorplans allow you to plan sites, create and manage floor plans, and provision access points. You can use Floorplans to do basic planning procedures, such as, creating a floor plan and provisioning access points. The dashboard can be accessed only from a site context.
Floorplans provide a real-time picture of the radio environment of your wireless network and the ability to plan the wireless coverage of new sites. For a better understanding of your wireless network, you must know the location of your devices and users, and the RFRadio Frequency. RF refers to the electromagnetic wave frequencies within a range of 3 kHz to 300 GHz, including the frequencies used for communications or Radar signals. environment of your network. Floorplans provide this information at your fingertips through integrated mapping and location data.
Floorplans use sophisticated RF fingerprinting to accurately display coverage patterns and calculate the location of every wireless device in range. Floorplans does not require dedicated RF sensors or a costly additional location appliance, because it gathers all the necessary information from your existing devices.
- Floorplans is supported only on access points running 6.5.2.0 or a later version.
- Do not use the back or front navigation. Instead, use the breadcrumbs.
- APs are removed from the floorplan and deployed device list based on the device unlicensing. For example, When you unassign a license for an AP, it gets removed from the deployed device list and floorplans, and when you assign back the license for an AP, it gets added back to the deployed device list and to the same co-ordinates of the floorplan location. Also, when your license gets auto expired, the devices gets removed from the list and floorplan location and the same gets added back on license renewal. Make sure that you check the assigned AP device licensing status before adding them to the floorplan.
Floorplans offer the following features:
- Create and import floor plans.
- Pictorial navigation that allows you to view the floor plans associated with access points, associated clients, rogues, buildings, and floors.
- Accurate calculation of the location of all associated client devices using RF data from your devices.
- Accurate calculation of the location of all rogue devices (as classified by RAPIDSRogue Access Point identification and Detection System. An AMP module that is designed to identify and locate wireless threats by making use of all of the information available from your existing infrastructure. ) using RF data from your devices.
- A map view that shows the location of devices and heatmaps that depict the strength of RF coverage in each location.
