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Release date: September 26, 2024
Nextivity is excited to announce the release of WAVE Portal version 1.7.5, which introduces several enhancements, including:
New Feature: Customizable Site Survey Reports Site Survey Reports have received a significant upgrade with the addition of customizable Settings Templates and new options to easily adjust the report structure, signal scope, and related content. Survey Reports can now be shared as PDFs, which are easily compiled directly within the WAVE Portal and hosted for your convenience. This exciting new reporting capability is available to Nextivity Partners with a COMPASS XR signal scanner and a WAVE Portal account.
The sections of the New Survey Report page are summarized below. For a more thorough demonstration of this new feature, Nextivity partners are invited to watch the recording of our recent COMPASS XR Product Deep Dive and Demo Webinar on the Nextivity Partner Portal, during which we unveiled the new survey reports. The recording includes a detailed review of all COMPASS XR features; the New Survey Report demonstration begins at the 38:00 timestamp.
Report Settings – Survey Templates & Content Customization The options found within the Report Settings section control what content is included in your Survey Report. These options are loaded from the Settings Template you last used. “Nextivity Standard” templates are provided which include the settings recommended for Cellular and Public Safety reports. You may use these default templates, or you may modify the settings and Save As a customized template to be reused and shared with all WAVE Portal users in your organization. The checkboxes in Report Settings specify whether the content is included or excluded from the report you are generating. You may opt to include whichever Sections are needed and also modify the Table Columns checkboxes to specify the metrics that should appear in the report’s Measurement Data tables. Changes may either be saved into your own template for the future, or used only for the current report. The optional Cover and Append Pages allow you to add custom content to the beginning and end of the Site Survey PDF reports you generate by uploading your own PDF file. For instance, you could opt to include your company’s own Cover and About Us pages at the beginning of the report, or append a PDF copy of the COMPASS XR Calibration Certificate used to conduct the survey at the end of the report.
Survey Selections – Define Report Scope The options in the Survey Selections area are specific to the current Site Survey and not saved as part of the Template described above. Select the Floors, Operators, and the report settings for each signal in this section. Key Metric and Threshold values are initially loaded from Report Settings, but may be adjusted here for each Operator individually, as needed.
Report Preview The last section of the New Survey Report page is the Report Preview, where you can review what the PDF report will look like based on the current settings. The Table of Contents section is used to load and preview specific heatmaps, which you might do to confirm the settings are suitable before running the full report. Once ready, click the Generate Report button to complete the process.
Managing Generated Survey Reports Once a survey report has been generated, it can be immediately downloaded or shared. Multiple reports can be generated from a single survey, each tailored to their particular reporting scope and recipient. Reports that have been generated from a Site Survey can be found at the bottom of the survey’s Heatmap page.
Improved: Survey Heatmap Analysis Several improvements have been made to the Survey Heatmap page that complement the customizable survey report features discussed above. To provide a more complete analysis tool, two new dropdown boxes have been added below the Operator dropdown. The Technology/Band dropdown lists all the bands identified within the site survey for the selected operator. The Key Metric dropdown allows you to select the metric used to generate the heatmap. For public safety signals, SINR and DAQ can now be used as the Key Metric creating the heatmap, in addition to RSSI which remains available and is the default. For 4G and 5G cellular signals, RSRQ and PCI can now be used to create the heatmap, in addition to RSRP which remains the available default Key Metric. Equivalent metrics are available for 3G scans performed using the legacy COMPASS: Ec/Io, PSC, and RSCP. The addition of PCI mapping provides a useful analysis tool to easily identify macro cell dominance. It can be particularly useful to review this heatmap during system design, and can help determine where to situate donor signal antennas for each operator. The image below illustrates an example PCI heatmap, along with the new Technology/Band and Key Metric drilldown options to the right of the floorplan.
Improved: Map Page Enhancements The Map page has been enhanced with two new features: Locate and List all Sites in View. These options now appear at the top-right of the page, and will be useful for frequent users of the Map page, such as Operators and those partners performing installations across a large territory. The Locate option accepts an address or coordinates. When entered, the map zooms into the location specified. You may then further adjust the map view, as needed. Once you have framed in the area of interest, use the new List all Sites in View option to get a list of all the Site Pins currently shown in view. The list of Mapped Sites can be further filtered just like the regular Sites page, enabling a new geography-based method to locate a specific Site or System of interest.
Notification & Policy-Related Improvements
Issues Resolved
See also: Prior release, Version 1.7.4 |
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