Case study · Education
Campus-wide RF survey & wireless design
Over a multi-year engagement from 2015 to 2018, WZC provided detailed iBwave pre-site survey designs across 275+ University of Michigan buildings totaling 15.9M sq ft, supporting the university's campus-wide Wi-Fi upgrade.
- Client:
- University of Michigan
- Location:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Industry:
- Education
- Service:
- Survey & Design Engineering
Three years, 275+ buildings, one design foundation
- Buildings surveyed
- 275+
- Buildings surveyed
- Sq ft designed
- 15.9M
- Sq ft designed
- Engagement span
- 2015–18
- Engagement span
The 2015-2018 University of Michigan engagement, iBwave pre-site survey designs delivered building by building until the full 15.9M sq ft campus footprint was covered.
The challenge
A campus-wide Wi-Fi upgrade on one of the largest campuses in the United States starts long before the first access point is mounted. Every building needs a design grounded in how it is actually built and used.
The solution
Over a multi-year engagement from 2015 to 2018, WZC produced detailed iBwave pre-site survey designs across more than 275 buildings, academic halls, administrative offices, and residential buildings, totaling 15.9M sq ft.
RF design at the scale of a major campus
Over a multi-year engagement from 2015 to 2018, WZC produced detailed iBwave pre-site survey designs across more than 275 University of Michigan buildings, academic halls, administrative offices, and residential buildings, totaling 15.9M sq ft.
Those designs became the engineering foundation for the university's campus-wide Wi-Fi upgrade initiative.
- Multi-year engagement, 2015 through 2018
- Detailed iBwave pre-site survey designs for every building
- Academic, administrative, and residential buildings covered
- Engineering foundation for a campus-wide Wi-Fi upgrade initiative
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