Communications Coverage Analysis

If you're the operator of a commercial or military transportation facility or agency, you and other stakeholders must stay in touch with your air-, land- and sea-borne assets using radio-frequency (RF) communications. But, many environmental factors—including terrain irregularities, buildings, and space conditions, such as sunspots—can affect how well your communications system actually covers the surrounding area.

How can you determine coverage effectiveness so you can optimize antenna design, power, and location, and identify potential communications "blind spots"? Call on ARINC.

ARINC has the experience and tools to precisely determine the quality and extent of RF communications coverage. Our sophisticated electromagnetic modeling programs use propagation analysis to calculate and display signal strength, signal-to-noise ratio, and limits of coverage for any type of RF transmission technology—from HF to microwaves. Our models consider:

• Terrain effects of any type
• Propagation in urban environments, from simple to extremely dense
• Propagation inside buildings

ARINC's stable of modeling tools includes ARINC-developed and other leading third-party software such as TIREM™, ICEPAC, RF CAD, SitePlanner^®, Wireless InSite, and the Association of American Railroads' Spectrum Management Toolset.

ARINC has performed communications coverage modeling and analysis for numerous commercial and military facilities, including Newark, JFK, and La Guardia airports; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Washington Fisheries, Washington; McMurdo Station, Alaska; Whidbey Island, Washington; and Amtrak's northeast region.