Get a planning-grade estimate of how many radios your private network deployment will likely require — and whether coverage or capacity is the binding constraint. Site-type-aware inputs produce calibrated estimates for industrial, mining, port, airport, and utility environments — not just generic indoor/outdoor. Useful for budget sizing and vendor conversations before formal RF design.
This estimator produces a planning-grade range for budget sizing and vendor conversations. It does not replace RF design, site survey, or vendor engineering. For mission-critical or complex deployments, a formal RF design is required before procurement.
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Phase 1 · Site Geometry
Site type is the primary driver of the estimate — it determines which geometry inputs appear and which coverage assumptions apply. Select the type that best describes your operational site.
Input 1 — Site type
What kind of site is this?
Select the operational description, not the industry label. A pharmaceutical warehouse is a standard indoor facility; a pharmaceutical plant with cleanrooms is specialist.
Input 2 — Area & geometry
What is the floor area and ceiling height?
Ceiling height is the single most impactful variable after area. A 30ft ceiling in an open warehouse produces significantly more coverage per radio than a 10ft office ceiling — even with identical floor area.
Typical floor plate — not total building
Levels requiring coverage
Ceiling height
Construction & RF environment
Input 2 — Terminal geometry
Terminal area and levels
Airport terminals require separate coverage planning per level. The estimate covers the terminal building. If airside apron coverage is also required, add it as a separate site or select Mixed Indoor + Outdoor.
Average per level — not total
All levels needing coverage
Input 2 — Apron geometry
Apron area and GSE profile
For airport apron, seamless handover for GSE at vehicle speed is the binding constraint — not coverage area. The estimate accounts for handover overlap at 10–60 km/h.
Total area requiring coverage
Total stand count
Input 2 — Quayside geometry
Berth dimensions and crane profile
Quayside coverage is linear — sized by berth length and coverage depth, not area. Crane height affects whether antennas can be mounted above the crane rail (ideal) or must work around crane shadow zones.
Crane height relative to antenna placement
Input 2 — Container yard geometry
Yard area and stack profile
⚠ Container yards have severe RF obstruction from stacked containers. Each tier of containers reduces effective radio coverage by approximately 15–25%. The estimate widens significantly with higher stacks.
Input 2 — Pit geometry
Operational area and haul road profile
Open pit mines have unique RF geometry — pit walls reflect signal but also create shadow zones on lower benches. Coverage is typically sized per bench level for lower pit areas, with wider coverage on upper benches.
Pit footprint + haul roads + plant
Total haul road requiring coverage
Levels requiring separate coverage planning
⚠ Underground mine sizing uses leaky feeder (radiating cable) — not standard base stations. The output is estimated cable length (km) and amplifier count, not radio count. A professional design is mandatory before procurement for any underground deployment.
Input 2 — Underground geometry
Tunnel network dimensions
All drives requiring coverage combined
Separate horizons requiring coverage
Tunnel profile
⚠ High-voltage switchgear, transformers, and power lines generate significant electromagnetic interference (EMI) that reduces effective radio coverage. The estimate widens to account for this. A site survey to characterise EM noise floor is strongly recommended before design.
Input 2 — Substation / plant geometry
Site area and EM environment
EM interference level
Input 2 — Outdoor area and terrain
Coverage area and terrain profile
Terrain profile
Input 2 — Mixed site geometry
Indoor and outdoor areas
For mixed sites, the indoor coverage estimate is the binding constraint. Enter both indoor and outdoor areas — they are calculated separately and combined.
Indoor construction type
Input 3 — Spectrum band
What spectrum band is planned for this deployment?
Spectrum band is the second biggest driver of radio count. mmWave requires many more radios; low-band requires far fewer. Select Unknown if not yet decided — the estimate range will widen accordingly.
Input 3c — Spectrum bandwidth (optional)
What is the allocated channel bandwidth?
Leave blank to use band-typical defaults. If you know your spectrum allocation, entering the bandwidth improves capacity estimate accuracy — wider bandwidth means more throughput per radio.
Input 3c — Spectrum bandwidth (optional)
What is the allocated channel bandwidth?
Leave blank or select default to use band-typical assumptions. Entering actual bandwidth improves capacity estimate accuracy.
Input 3b — CBRS spectrum access type
GAA (unlicensed) or PAL (Priority Access Licence)?
GAA is shared, unlicensed, and free — but subject to interference from other CBRS users in the same area. PAL provides priority access and interference protection. For mission-critical deployments, PAL is strongly recommended.
Phase 2 · Network & Devices
Device count and traffic profile drive the capacity estimate. Simple mode uses pre-built profiles — choose the one closest to your primary workload. Advanced mode lets you enter per-class device counts.
Input 4 — Total concurrent devices
All devices connecting to this network simultaneously at peak
Include every device type: cameras, handhelds, sensors, AGVs, gateways, laptops. Count peak concurrent, not total installed.
Input 5 — Traffic profile (Simple mode)
Select the profile that best describes your dominant workload
Uplink is typically the binding capacity constraint for industrial deployments — cameras, sensors, and AGV telemetry all generate uplink traffic.
Advanced mode — device breakdown
Enter counts by device class
~4 Mbps UL each
~2 Mbps UL+DL each
~50 Kbps each
~1 Mbps each
~5 Mbps DL each
~500 Kbps each
5–25 Mbps UL each — uplink-heavy
Input 6 — Criticality
What is the criticality level of the primary use cases?
Mission-critical deployments require coverage overlap and redundancy headroom — this increases the radio count upward and widens the range.
Input 7 — Primary device mobility
How do the primary devices move across the site?
Vehicle-mounted devices require handover overlap between cells — each radio must cover an area that overlaps with its neighbours at the boundary. This increases effective radio count by 10–25% depending on speed and site geometry.
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