Enterprise Service
Fixed Wireless Site Surveys
Survey, analyze, and optimize LTE/5G networks before deployment.
We perform comprehensive fixed wireless site surveys for enterprise LTE and 5G connectivity. These surveys provide data-driven insights into your wireless environment, helping you avoid costly misconfigurations and downtime. After all, a successful enterprise network is one designed based on measured signal data, not guesswork.
Enterprise LTE and 5G networks are the backbone of modern industrial IoT, connected logistics, and digital transformation initiatives. Yet deploying these networks without a detailed site survey can lead to costly downtime, data loss, or network inefficiencies. INS performs fixed wireless site surveys across warehouses, multi-story office buildings, refineries, and remote industrial facilities to deliver actionable insights and ensure your network performs under real-world conditions.
Whether you’re deploying mission-critical industrial IoT systems, connected logistics networks, or high-density enterprise Wi-Fi replacements, a well-executed site survey is the foundation for reliable wireless performance.
By combining field measurements, spectrum analysis, and expert antenna placement, INS ensures your network is optimized for signal reliability, throughput, and resilience.
Why Site Surveys Matter for Enterprise Wireless Connectivity
Deploying LTE or 5G networks without proper site analysis is risky. Signal dropouts, interference, or poorly placed antennas can lead to network failures, degraded IoT performance, or costly rework. A thorough enterprise LTE/5G coverage assessment ensures your wireless network is designed on real-world data, not assumptions, reducing downtime and optimizing performance.
A well-executed site survey helps you:
Validate Carrier Coverage
Identify the strongest carriers and frequency bands available at your site, including LTE, 5G, and CBRS options. Multi-carrier testing ensures that your network has redundancy and can maintain uptime even if one provider experiences service interruptions.
Measure Signal Strength & Quality
Collect critical metrics—RSRP, RSRQ, SINR, throughput, and latency—to benchmark network performance. These measurements allow IT teams to predict how devices will behave under load and prevent connectivity issues before deployment.
Optimize Antenna Placement
Determine the ideal height, orientation, and type of antenna for your environment. Proper placement maximizes coverage while minimizing interference from walls, metal machinery, glass surfaces, or other wireless networks.
Assess Environmental Impacts
Evaluate physical obstacles, material density, and sources of electromagnetic interference. For industrial plants or high-density office environments, this step ensures that your network can maintain consistent performance across all critical areas.
Optimize Multi-Tenant Networks
In shared office spaces, campuses, or multi-tenant industrial facilities, surveys identify potential sources of signal contention and interference, helping avoid disruptions and ensuring fair bandwidth allocation for all users.
Predict Performance for IoT Applications
Ensure sensors, trackers, automated machinery, and edge devices maintain uninterrupted connectivity. Survey data allows teams to configure network parameters that support low-latency communication, high throughput, and predictable performance.
Support Regulatory Compliance
Accurate site survey documentation provides a foundation for compliance in safety-critical environments, including industrial operations, healthcare facilities, and transportation networks. It ensures that wireless deployments meet required standards for reliability, security, and performance.
Plan for Scalability and Future Needs
Site surveys provide insights that support network growth. Whether you’re adding additional IoT devices, expanding a fleet of connected vehicles, or preparing for private 5G deployment, survey data helps anticipate capacity needs and guides future-proof network design.
Our Site Survey Process
INS takes a methodical, data-driven approach to every fixed wireless site survey.
Pre-Survey Planning & Coordination
Before stepping onto the site, our engineers perform pre-survey planning, reviewing floor plans, asset layouts, and critical application requirements. This ensures our measurements target high-priority areas, minimizing time in the field and maximizing the accuracy of signal maps.
Carrier Coverage & Frequency Band Analysis
We identify the best LTE/5G carriers and frequency bands for your site. By analyzing signal availability, strength, and interference, we ensure your network leverages the most reliable spectrum for your applications.
- Multi-carrier testing (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and CBRS)
- Spectrum mapping and dead-zone identification
- Recommendations for redundant carrier setups
Signal Strength, Quality & Throughput Testing
INS collects critical wireless metrics, including RSRP (Reference Signal Received Power), RSRQ (Reference Signal Received Quality), SINR (Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio), throughput, and latency.
These measurements help:
- Predict network performance under load
- Detect potential interference or degradation sources
- Ensure IoT devices and critical applications run without interruption
Antenna Placement & Environmental Assessment
Proper antenna alignment is crucial for high-density or complex environments. We survey the physical environment to identify barriers and determine the best path for cable management and run through the facility. INS evaluates:
- Physical obstacles such as walls, glass, metal, and machinery
- Potential interference sources, like other wireless equipment
- Optimal height, orientation, and type of antenna for each deployment
Our recommendations ensure maximized coverage, minimal interference, and efficient spectrum usage.
Report & Deployment Recommendations
After the survey, INS delivers a comprehensive report including:
- Detailed signal maps and heatmaps
- Recommended antenna locations and types
- Carrier and band selection guidance
- Bill of materials for hardware deployment
- Suggested configuration for QoS and redundancy
Each report also includes recommended QoS parameters, optimal routing for mobile assets, and contingency plans for signal interruptions. For example, in a recent warehouse survey, INS identified areas with metal shelving interference and recommended antenna repositioning and secondary carrier activation, eliminating downtime before network deployment.
Why Choose INS for Your Wireless Site Survey
With hundreds of enterprise site surveys completed, INS delivers reliable, successful outcomes for mission-critical LTE and 5G deployments.
Our expertise includes:
- Enterprise-grade survey experience across commercial, industrial, and logistics environments
- Multi-carrier and multi-band testing capabilities
- Advanced wireless and antenna engineering proficiency
- Detailed, actionable deliverables for design and deployment teams
INS engineers are certified in industrial wireless technologies, LTE/5G deployment, and antenna engineering. Our team uses advanced spectrum analyzers, RF modeling software, and multi-carrier test equipment to deliver highly accurate survey results. When paired with our installation and INS CARE lifecycle monitoring services, survey insights translate directly into reliable, high-performance networks.
Deploying enterprise LTE or 5G networks without a thorough site survey can result in unexpected performance issues, downtime, and costly rework. INS’s fixed wireless site surveys are designed to identify, measure, and mitigate potential obstacles before deployment, ensuring your network operates reliably from day one.
Common Wireless Deployment Challenges Addressed by Site Surveys
Multi-story buildings, mixed-use facilities, and outdoor/indoor transitions can create unpredictable wireless conditions. INS measures signal quality metrics like RSRP, RSRQ, SINR, and throughput in all areas to identify dead zones or weak coverage spots. This data-driven approach enables precise antenna placement and optimized network design.
Physical structures such as walls, glass partitions, metal shelving, or machinery can significantly degrade wireless signals. INS surveys measure how building materials impact coverage, allowing our engineers to recommend antenna placement, orientation, and type that maximize signal strength while minimizing interference.
Many enterprises rely on multiple carriers for redundancy, failover, or CBRS spectrum access. Without proper testing, overlapping frequency bands and handoffs can cause signal dropouts or latency spikes. INS evaluates LTE/5G coverage for each carrier, identifies the optimal band mix, and recommends configurations to ensure seamless connectivity across carriers.
INS offers best-in-class hardware recommendations and sourcing for LTE/5G routers, antennas, and accessories. We validate hardware choices based on real-world deployment data, ensuring every component supports your site’s coverage, performance, and scalability requirements for fixed wireless access.
Warehouses, factories, campuses, and IoT-heavy facilities often host hundreds or thousands of devices simultaneously. Improper planning can lead to network congestion, packet loss, or degraded IoT telemetry. INS surveys analyze device density, expected throughput, and network load, providing guidance to prevent bottlenecks and maintain reliable communications.
Poor Coverage Areas
Environmental Interference
Multi-Carrier Complexity
Hardware Expertise & Vendor Flexibility
High Device Density
Real-World Impact of INS Site Surveys
INS site surveys don’t just provide measurements. They deliver actionable insights that directly improve network performance and reliability. Across industrial facilities, warehouses, campuses, and multi-story office buildings, our surveys have helped clients identify coverage gaps, optimize antenna placement, and ensure seamless connectivity for mission-critical applications.
Explore how organizations like yours have leveraged INS site survey expertise to avoid downtime, maximize throughput, and enable IoT, LTE, and 5G networks to perform as intended.
Ready for Reliable Enterprise Wireless Connectivity?
Schedule your fixed wireless site survey today and build a deployment plan tailored to your enterprise environment. INS ensures your LTE or 5G network is designed based on data, not guesswork, giving your team confidence in performance, reliability, and ROI.