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Originally Posted by Scruge
Is the SiteSense client the special cart?
Seems one could duplicate the Sitestumbler setup using available software.
Scan your floorplan and setup coordinates that can be assigned to NS's or kismet's current active ap readings at each logging point. Just like gps but using x,y coordinates from drawing instead.
You could take it one step further by taking several gps benchmark readings of the exterior perimeter of the floor plan. Which would allow you to convert all the internal x,y coordinates to gps so they could be processed by any of the coverage plotters.
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No, the SiteSense client is the proprietary version of NetStumbler, which is used to do the datacollection. It is used by the SiteStumbler software, and also in the Wireless Recon product from Helium Networks as the WiFi data collection engine. SiteStumbler is a frontend and a visualizing portal for the data, and I'm taking a SWAG that the Wireless Recon software is doing the same in the big package with the measuring cart.
And yes, you could duplicate the SiteStumbler setup with available software, but probably not with the same ease of use and integration.
FWIW, if I was a Wireless integrator, an IT admin at a large site utilizing WiFi, or in a similar position where indoor sitesurveys were necessary on a regular basis, I'd say that the SiteStumbler product was well worth the price, if the Wireless Recon product is considered overkill or too pricey for the same tasks.
I hope MikeP928 will take a look at it and give his input, since he deals with surveying sites regularly... At least when he isn't busy feeding tourons to the gators..
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