WiFi is more Physics than you might think.

Anyone can stick in a WiFi access point and provide connectivity to a few users. But getting it right takes understanding of the physics of radio.  It starts to matter when your WiFi begins to become important to you which in today’s world, is a lot more than ever before.

Why is WiFi so important?

Many have started to rely heavily on WiFi as an integral part of their venue, business or operation.

Customers and guests need a good WiFi experience as it reflects on how they perceive you, what they see and experience as part of your offering, the quality of the service you are providing, and your brand.

Businesses now depend more and more on WiFi to support their day-to-day operations.  Not just connecting staff but hardware, printers, tills, scanners and more.  WiFi is also extending into to building control; lights, alarms, heating, access control etc.

Also, promoting your business or service, onboarding guests with a branded landing page, providing access to important site information, collecting analytics of usage to identify patterns for insights on your customers/guests.

What can go wrong?

When the WiFi starts to get busy, you start to notice a difference.  When you need it most, it gets congested and it slows down, or stops altogether.

‘The WiFi is down’.  People can’t work so they complain.  Users are frustrated and they get a bad experience of your business or venue.

Your infrastructure goes off line, or becomes slow and unresponsive.  Your production levels take a nose dive and deadlines get missed.

Getting Physical

Getting WiFi working properly takes an understanding of how radio works.  The busier the environment, the more you need to work on optimising your radio performance.

Radio waves are subject to physical laws. Interference, channel utilization, fading, refraction, reflection, absorption, co-channel, receive sensitivity, free space loss.  All these things start to matter.

This is not the domain of traditional IT companies.  Specialist companies like Novahub understand the physics of radio and its effect on WiFi.

We Provide a WiFi Coverage Guarantee

Properly designed radio coverage is the bedrock of your WiFi services.  They will fail if the underlying layer is not up to the job.

And it’s not just for essential internet access.  When you start to consider guest access, hospitality services, multi-tenanted offices, tills and scanners, these things matter.

That’s why we provide a coverage guarantee.  We know how to get it right, and if it is not up to scratch, we fix it at our cost.