PRESS RELEASE
4th July 2013 - Solwise are pleased to announce an exciting new FREE Surface Elevation Tool available on their website which will allow wireless installers to analyse the surface elevation profile from one point to another to determine line-of-sight, and to work out the feasibility of a wireless bridging link.
The Solwise Surface Elevation Tool allows you to search using postcode, town or even GPS coordinates to centre the map! You just click on the map to place your marker for Point A. Click again for the location of Point B. The Solwise Surface Elevation Tool will then draw a line between the two markers to illustrate the signal path and a chart will be drawn below the map representing the land elevation profile from marker A to the marker B.
The signal path line overlay (shown on the chart in red) represents the direct line-of-sight. This can be hovered over to show a marker on the map to determine where the portion of the profile relates geographically.
It is possible to define a height where the prospective base-unit is going to sit above ground level (e.g., attached to a pole or a building), you can click on either of the markers to set this height. After entering, the line-of-sight profile on the chart will be updated accordingly. This feature could be utilised to compensate for where the surface profile does not account for buildings.
Solwise Technical Director, Steve Mace, said "Here at Solwise we try to make life easier for our customers and resellers, we are hoping that with this new tool more people will be able to benefit from a Wireless connection in villages, on industrial estates, universities or wherever there is need for a wide area WiFi connection.
http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-elevationtool.html
Note 1: This application's data-provided by Google-represents a modest approximation of terrestrial elevation but generally does not factor in circumstantial obstructive details (such as buildings and trees) so this should be factored in when considering the profile.)
Note 2: Curvatures of the line on the map actually represent the most direct path between the two points after considering the curvature of the Earth. Also note that the Earth's curvature could itself obstruct the line-of-sight between two points; please consider this when profiling a point-to-point link to the other side of the globe!
Initial Customer Comments/Feedback:
‘Feedback .. the elevation tool is BRILLIANT !! .. obviously just a guide but fantastic resource !' Steve Farmer, i7 Technologies Limited, http://www.i7technologies.co.uk
‘Wanted to say how amazing the Surface Elevation tool is. WOW....' Lee Huck, Clive Owen Technology Services, www.cliveowenit.co.uk
‘Really like the surface elevation tool ! ! We have needed a tool like this that us smaller companies could use for a long time.' Fred Richards, Astra Alarm Systems Ltd. www.astra-alarms.co.uk.
