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Mapping Wifi Measurements On Openstreetmap Data For Wireless Street Coverage Analysis, Andrea Valenzano, Dario Mana, Claudio Borean, Antonio Servetti

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

The growing interest on smart cities and the deployment of an ever increasing number of smart objects in public locations, such as dumpsters, traffic lights, and manholes, requires ubiquitous connectivity for these devices to communicate data and to receive configurations. Opportunistic WiFi connectivity is a valid alternative both to ad hoc solutions, like LoRa, which require costly deployments, and to communicating through the mobile network, which is both pricey and battery power hungry. In this paper we present a tool to analyze the WiFi coverage of home Access Points (AP) on the city streets. It can be of interest to …