Private Network Site Survey Readiness Checklist — Airports
Before commissioning an RF survey or engaging a deployment partner, confirm your airport site is ready. This tool diagnoses your readiness across six domains — including airside access, aviation authority approval, ILS/radar safeguarding, and multi-stakeholder governance — and generates an airport-specific site survey checklist, required documents list, and field validation sequence.
2 phases · 20 questions
~8 minutes
Manufacturing-specific output
Printable checklist + PDF
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Phase 1 · Site Profile
Tell us about your airport site
These six questions establish the site context that shapes your entire readiness checklist. Airport deployments vary significantly between airside and landside zones — answer based on your current operational state, not your target architecture.
Question 1 of 6
What type of manufacturing site is this?
Select the option that best describes the primary environment where coverage is needed.
Question 2 of 6
What stage is your deployment at?
Question 3 of 6
Which use cases will the private network need to support?
Select all that apply — your selection drives the survey checklist and performance requirements.
Question 4 of 6
What is the deployment urgency and programme stage?
Question 5 of 6
Is the private network deployment required airside, landside, or both — and has airside access been confirmed with the airport authority?
Airside deployments require aviation authority approval, security clearance for all installation personnel, and compliance with airfield safeguarding rules on antenna heights and RF emissions. These processes can take weeks to months and must be initiated before survey planning begins.
Question 6 of 6
Are there active ILS, radar, navigation aid, or radio altimeter systems within or adjacent to the planned coverage areas that could be affected by private network RF emissions?
Private network radio emissions in the vicinity of ILS glide path, localiser, VOR, DME, or radar systems require formal EMC assessment and aviation authority approval before any equipment can be installed or operated. This is a legal requirement in all jurisdictions.
Phase 1 of 2
Domain A · Physical Environment
Site layout and physical conditions
Airport environments present some of the most challenging RF conditions: large metal aircraft structures, dense terminal fitout, dynamic obstruction from aircraft at stands, and safeguarding constraints on antenna placement near navigation aids. Capturing the full environment picture before survey design is essential.
Question 7 of 20
Are accurate site maps or drawings available for the areas requiring coverage?
CAD drawings, floor plans, or as-built documents are required for RF propagation modelling. Surveys without accurate maps rely on field measurement only, increasing design risk.
Question 8 of 20
How would you describe the RF propagation environment in the primary coverage areas?
Question 9 of 20
Are there significant dynamic obstructions that will affect coverage during normal operations?
Dynamic obstructions — moving machinery, vehicles, stacked materials — create coverage variability that static RF surveys can underestimate.
Question 10 of 20
Are there known sources of RF interference on or adjacent to the site?
Select all that apply
Domain A of 5
Domain B · Power & Backhaul
Power and connectivity at planned radio locations
Power and backhaul at planned radio locations in airports involve multiple infrastructure owners — airport authority, terminal operator, and airlines each control different domains. Identifying ownership and availability gaps early prevents design and procurement delays.
Question 11 of 20
What is the power availability at your planned radio access point locations?
Question 12 of 20
What is the fibre or Ethernet backhaul availability at planned radio locations?
Each radio access point requires a backhaul connection to the core network. In dense factory environments, running new cable is often the longest-lead civil works item.
Question 13 of 20
What connectivity infrastructure already exists on site that may be reused or integrated?
Select all that apply
Domain C · OT Systems & Devices
Operational technology, systems integration and device landscape
Airport system integration across AOC, BHS, GSE management, and VMS platforms is the most consistent source of deployment complexity. Confirming which systems need to connect and what their network requirements are before survey determines whether the design needs to accommodate multi-stakeholder governance, security segmentation between airline and airport networks, or specialist aviation system integration.
Question 14 of 20
Which OT or production systems need to connect to or integrate with the private network?
Select all that apply
Question 15 of 20
What is the approximate number of devices that need to connect to the private network, and has a device inventory been documented?
Question 16 of 20
Have latency, throughput, and reliability requirements been defined for your most demanding use case?
AGV handover, machine vision, and safety-critical applications each have specific performance requirements that must be defined before RF design begins.
Domain D · Spectrum & Compliance
Spectrum status and regulatory requirements
Spectrum selection at airports requires aviation frequency coordination in addition to national licensing. Regulatory compliance — TSA, FAA, CAA, NIS2 — affects security architecture, stakeholder access governance, and vendor selection. Both must be confirmed before RF design is finalised.
Question 17 of 20
What is the current status of spectrum for this deployment?
Question 18 of 20
Which compliance or security standards apply to this deployment?
Select all that apply — these determine security architecture requirements before vendor engagement
Domain E · Survey Logistics & Stakeholder Approvals
Access, approvals and operational constraints
Airport survey logistics are the most complex of any vertical. Airside access requires security clearance arranged weeks in advance; multiple stakeholder escorts are needed across zones; photography restrictions apply in sensitive areas. Confirm every access requirement before the survey team travels to site.
Question 19 of 20
What is the site access situation for the survey team?
Question 20 of 20
Which internal stakeholder approvals are needed before deployment can proceed?
Select all that still need to be secured
Your site survey checklist is ready.
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