Service
Every good network starts with an accurate picture of the building and how it will be used. We measure rather than guess — whether we're diagnosing an existing home or designing a new one from the drawings.
Three kinds of survey
For new builds and extensions. We plan access point positions, cabling and switching from the drawings, accounting for wall construction, room layouts and expected device numbers.
For existing homes with problems. We measure coverage and performance on site, review the network configuration and comms room, and identify the causes of dropouts and dead spots.
After installation or an upgrade. We confirm that coverage, roaming and failover meet the design before handover, so the operator starts from a known-good network.
What we look at
Most care home WiFi problems aren't caused by weak signal alone. A useful survey looks at the whole chain, from the incoming line to the device in a resident's room.
Network design
The output is a network specification that a contractor can build and an operator can live with.
Access point numbers and positions for coverage and capacity, placed so they work architecturally as well as technically in residents' rooms and communal spaces.
Separate networks for care and operations, staff, residents, guests, building systems, security and voice — each with its own priority and access rules.
Core and edge switching, PoE budgets sized for the device count, and a fibre backbone between floors or wings where needed.
Fibre as the primary supply. Where the site and budget suit, a Starlink or 5G backup with automatic failover keeps essential services connected if the line goes down.
What you receive
Case study · Existing homes
Every home was surveyed before anything was specified, so the design reflected what was already there and what each building needed.
Questions
Care homes combine many small rooms and heavy fire doors with a large, growing number of devices and systems that can't afford to drop out. Designing access point positions, capacity and roaming from measurements, rather than adding access points until the complaints stop, gives reliable coverage in residents' rooms, avoids paying for equipment in the wrong places, and leaves a documented network that others can support.
A structured assessment of how the wireless network actually performs in the building — signal coverage, capacity, interference and how devices move between access points — combined with a review of the switching, cabling, comms room and internet connection behind it.
Not at the start. For a new build we design from the drawings and agree the specification with the design team. We then validate coverage on site once the building is complete.
Yes. The report separates what can stay, what should be reconfigured and what genuinely needs replacing, with the reasons for each, so you can make an informed decision.
Whether the home is open or still on the drawing board, an accurate survey is the quickest way to the right network.
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