WiFi Solver FDTD
Input the layout of a room or building and calculate the WiFi distribution.
With this app you can take a floorplan of your house, set the location of a WiFi router, and simulate how the electromagnetic WiFi waves propagate.See the app in action in the following video by tech news website The Verge:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ADqAX-heFYThis app is based on a post Helmhurts at my blog Almost Looks Like Work, which was featured on Engadget, Ars Technica, and many other publications:https://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/This app uses the 2D Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method to solve Maxwells equation on a Cartesian grid. An example floorplan is included in the app.How to use:Your floorplan needs to be a .png file, with empty space marked black and materials marked with colours. Images will be converted into the correct materials on loading - this may take a few seconds.Pixels are mapped to 1 centimetre, so scale the floorplan appropriately.The simulation is limited in speed due to the mobile processor, so try to keep images below approximately 1000x1000 pixelsTouch the image to set a router location, marked by a red circle. Select the antenna parameters at the bottom.Choose what to plot - Field is the instantaneous electric field amplitude, Flux is the time-averaged magnitude of Poynting flux.Click run and the simulation will begin. Click stop to pause at any time - this saves the simulation progress which can be continued by clicking run again. To reset, open an image again.To save the simulation output as an image, click Save at any time. Images are saved to internal/external storage and added to the end of the camera roll.To start recording a simulation click the record R button. When the simulation is stopped a GIF animation is generated.Under the bonnet:An antenna oscillates at 2.4 GHz. The edges of the image use absorbing boundary conditions as in Mur 1981, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.Where walls are defined, the relevant refractive indices and loss tangents for 2.4GHz radiation are used.Disclaimer:This app is not intended as a replacement for existing EM simulation software packages.As a 2D approximation including only simple walls it may not accurately model a given floorplan.Sped up simulationNew, larger default example
With this app you can take a floorplan of your house, set the location of a WiFi router, and simulate how the electromagnetic WiFi waves propagate.See the app in action in the following video by tech news website The Verge:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ADqAX-heFYThis app is based on a post Helmhurts at my blog Almost Looks Like Work, which was featured on Engadget, Ars Technica, and many other publications:https://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/This app uses the 2D Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method to solve Maxwells equation on a Cartesian grid. An example floorplan is included in the app.How to use:Your floorplan needs to be a .png file, with empty space marked black and materials marked with colours. Images will be converted into the correct materials on loading - this may take a few seconds.Pixels are mapped to 1 centimetre, so scale the floorplan appropriately.The simulation is limited in speed due to the mobile processor, so try to keep images below approximately 1000x1000 pixelsTouch the image to set a router location, marked by a red circle. Select the antenna parameters at the bottom.Choose what to plot - Field is the instantaneous electric field amplitude, Flux is the time-averaged magnitude of Poynting flux.Click run and the simulation will begin. Click stop to pause at any time - this saves the simulation progress which can be continued by clicking run again. To reset, open an image again.To save the simulation output as an image, click Save at any time. Images are saved to internal/external storage and added to the end of the camera roll.To start recording a simulation click the record R button. When the simulation is stopped a GIF animation is generated.Under the bonnet:An antenna oscillates at 2.4 GHz. The edges of the image use absorbing boundary conditions as in Mur 1981, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.Where walls are defined, the relevant refractive indices and loss tangents for 2.4GHz radiation are used.Disclaimer:This app is not intended as a replacement for existing EM simulation software packages.As a 2D approximation including only simple walls it may not accurately model a given floorplan.Sped up simulationNew, larger default example
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Very useful app! It will be great if an option for second floor can be added and maybe additional material like metal (in case you have metal beams in the wall. Thank you!
Great. Can you tell me how can i create custom layout of my house?
Useless app. 50rs wasted.
I do like this app. One thing I cannot seem to do is to change the amount of antennas. Am I missing something. Pretty sure the last time I had this app I could do so. (New device and did not keep all my previous apps, just in case you were wondering why I downloaded it again. )
Really saved me a lot of time and experiments with this simulation, though 5g mapping would be good too. For multiple APs, you would just need to simulate with one AP at a time and then combine them together, since these APs would be running on multiple channels for the most of the setups (MCA).
This app has literally saved me hundreds of dollars on unecessary wifi equipment and helped get the most of what I have on hand. While you do need to scale and colour your floorplan in another image editing program like photoshop for it to work well, once it's loaded up it has often saved me hours in awkward experimenting with wifi points and cables to find the perfect sweet spot. Awesome nerdware.
It remains to integrate the option of 2.4 and 5G, in addition to trying to add 2 or 3 routers. Otherwise it has worked well 👌
Bobux
Hoping for more features to be added Quite useful but only once Let me know if there is a beta version I can sign up free r testing
Floor plant requirements are not to suitable.