On an outdoor survey for a healthcare campus parking lot mesh deployment, I spent three hours choosing pole locations before finding out that my customer did not pay for the electricity on any of them. My plan was to install the Rooftop Access Points (RAPs) on the roofline of the customer's building and then use the wood power poles in the parking lot for the Mast Access Points (MAPs). When I broke for lunch, I ran into the customer representative and described my deployment plan. He told me immediately that the poles were on a third-party electrical account and were not available for mounting. This meant resurveying the entire lot and choosing new mounting locations.
The resurvey added roughly half a day of unplanned fieldwork. The project still closed within the original five-day scope. The deliverable documented forty-nine proposed RAP and MAP locations across the full lot, a coverage simulation designed to meet voice over Wi-Fi standards (requiring tighter AP spacing and signal overlap than a data-only deployment), a full parts list, and the survey metrics collected on site. It ran to seventy pages. The sample below includes the coverage simulation, the AP location table, and the parts list.
Before any outdoor site walk, I now confirm electrical ownership for every potential mounting location.
The sample on this page is representative of my standard deliverable format. If you are scoping an outdoor Wi-Fi deployment and want to know what the documentation deliverable will look like, contact me: Jennifer@HuberWorks.nl