...Wireless Survey Research With wireless systems, it’s very difficult to predict the propagation of radio waves and detect the presence of interfering signals without the use of test equipment. Walls, doors, elevator shafts, people, and other obstacles offer varying degrees of attenuation, causing the RF radiation pattern to be irregular and unpredictable. As a result, it’s absolutely necessary to perform a wireless site survey to fully understand the behavior of radio waves within the operating environment before installing access points. The goal of a wireless site survey is to determine the number and placement of access points that provides adequate signal coverage throughout a facility. A wireless site survey also detects the presence of RF interference coming from other sources that could degrade the performance of the wireless LAN. Also keep in mind that the facility of the WLAN is highly impactful on the whether it requires a survey. For example a small room office may not require a site survey. With the given example a small office might only require an access point or a router located within the office to require adequate coverage. A larger facility is going to require a well scoped survey to be able to provide sufficient coverage to all areas, and if a larger facility isn’t properly surveyed other areas in the facility might be affected by poor coverage or no coverage. Example of these areas would be airports, hospitals, colleges. When conducting a site survey keep in...
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...Wireless Site Survey Recommendation Wireless Site Survey Recommendation Orchard Street Art Center Orchard Street Art Center Summary This report summarizes a plan to conduct a wireless site survey, also called a radio frequency (RF) survey, at Orchard Street Art Center. This survey will generate recommendations for maximizing network security, coverage, and capacity. Expert Advice Earlier this year, the board of directors of Orchard Street Art Center asked me to propose a plan to improve wireless coverage throughout the center’s public areas, offices, classrooms, music studios and indoor and outdoor theaters. To make sure I proposed the most effective plan possible, I decided to seek the advice of experts. Fortunately, one of the area’s top experts in wireless networking, Jamie Brookstone, president of Brookstone Network Consulting, offered the services of his staff pro bono. Thanks to his offer, I was able to meet several times with the following consultants: Lyn Luzerne Associate Engineer Dean Armstrong Senior Engineer Suzanne j. Sheffield-Harper Project Manager Our conversations focused on ways to improve network connections for the center’s staff and patrons. I also studied information obtained from leading hardware manufacturers and software distributors. This research suggests that our first step is to conduct a site survey of our entire facility. What Is a Wireless Site Survey? A wireless site survey is an analysis of a facility’s wireless networking...
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...Penultimatum, Inc. To: Helen Gibbs From: Harvey Miller CC: Amy Collins Date: 6/24/2011 Re: Site Survey for Requested Wireless Network In regards to the requested wireless network project, it is very important that we are given a sufficient amount of time and adequate resources to conduct a site survey prior to installing the network. A site survey will help us to determine whether there are other wireless networks in the area and which band is needed to ensure minimal interference and optimal performance. Purchasing network devices that support multiple bands will cost more than purchasing devices that support a single band and will also increase the time needed to configure each device on the network. By taking the time to do a site survey, you will also help make planning the network more efficient and cost effective by helping to determine what channels and signal strengths are needed in relation to the other wireless networks in the area. This should help avoid the inevitable time cost of having multiple configuration changes due to not knowing which channels and configurations will work best within the environment. The survey will also help us determine whether the buildings are well suited for wireless networks or not. If we move forward the assuming that a wireless network will perform according to expectations and find out after purchasing and installing the equipment that a building with plaster walls has a metal frame that does not permit wireless transmissions...
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...SITE SECURITY SURVEY TABLE OF CONTENTS SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS: Page 1. Entry Barriers 3 2 Signs 5 3. Lighting 6 4. Windows 7 5. Equipment Near Street Level Windows 8 6. Interior Patrol Visibility 9 7. Burglary Resistant Glazing Materials 9 8. Shrubbery 10 9. Skylights 10 10. Vents 10 11. Air Conditioners 11 12. Grills and Gratings 11 13. Doors and Door Frames 12 14. Strikes 14 15. Key Control 15 16. Equipment Locks 15 17. Hinge Protection 16 18. Roof Accessibility 17 19. Fences 18 20. Vehicle Security 19 21. Padlocks 19 22. Hasps 20 23. Chains 20 24. Safes 21 25. Inventories and Engraving 21 26. Reporting Crimes 22 27. Employee Participation 22 |SECURITY RECOMMENDATION 1 | |ENTRY BARRIERS | |A. Normal business hours | | | | |1. |Place signs limiting access to "EMPLOYEES ONLY" to discourage people from entering an area. ...
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...Appendix E Floor Plan Site Survey Data Sheet Use the tables to gather the data necessary to analyze each of the five floor plans in the Floor Plan Site Survey exercise. The information gathered in this assignment will assist you in your final project. Conference Center Explain the major features of this floor plan. For example, are there large open spaces, large walls, cubes, or offices? | A few of the main characteristics which this floor plan provides are a lift, a big meeting room, and many concrete walls. The southern portion of the floor plan also has a worker rest room with vending machines. At the west portion there are lavatories which are segregated with concrete wall. | Identify areas of this floor plan that may present issues when designing your network. Why will these areas present issues? For each area identified, what can you do to overcome the issue? | Some areas that may present issues when designing a network would be the large conference room and the break room. The large conference room is surrounded by concrete walls and the AP is at one corner of the floor plan surrounded by more concrete walls. The break room is also surrounded by walls and vending machines. This causes the signals to weaken because of the several walls and metal obstacles that are interfering. One way to fix the issue is to rearrange the AP to another place where there is less interference or in this case less walls. | According to your site survey, is the data center an...
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...SECURITY SITE SURVEY DEVRY CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS – The Devry Center Jim Jones February 15, 2013 Eval of Security Systems Professor Semore Butts Overview This site survey was conducted by Jim Jones on February 15, 2013. This document is intended to detail the security survey and analysis for Devry Corporate headquarters. The report will detail the strengths and weaknesses of each of the operational areas. While it will detail an overview of staff and visitor procedures it will not be a personal evaluation of the staff’s readiness or ability to carry out those activities and responsibilities. The objective of the recommendations in this audit are to ensure that Devry Corporate headquarters complies with state, local, and federal regulations for the safety of its employees, the public, and visitors. It will also assist with recommendations that ensure Devry Corporation is free from any legal liabilities as a result of action or non action as it relates to security and safety (Garcia, 2008). Summary The Devry Corporate Headquarters is the central location for Devry Inc., which owns and operates fourteen educational institutions, their supporting both domestic and international operations. These Institutions are comprised of large scale educational facilities requiring sophisticated infrastructures. Each of the supported institutions must adhere to the Higher Education Act standards of security and safety. Those standards would not be applicable in the corporate...
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...Usage of Social Media Networking Sites Survey By participating in this survey you are assisting our study in providing data about the usage of Social Media Websites by employees during their work environment. Please respond to the questions honestly and to the best of you knowledge. All of the information gained by these surveys will remain confidential and anonymous. 1. Are you currently employed? (Circle) YES NO 2. Do you have internet access at your current job? (Circle) YES NO 3. Does your Cell-Phone or other portable device have access to Social Media Networking Sites? (Circle.) YES NO 4. Please rank (1 being the most and 5 being the least) your means of accessing social networking Sites? ( ) Personal Computer ( ) Work Computer ( ) Cell Phone ( ) School Computer ( ) Other Form: ________________________________ 5. On average, how many times a day do you check or use social media networking sites while at work? (Check answer.) ( ) 0 ( ) 1-2 ( ) 3-5 ( ) 6-10 ( ) 10 & Over 6. How many social media networking sites/communities are you a member of? (Check answer.) ( ) 0 ( ) 1-2 ( ) 3-4 ( ) 5-6 ( ) 7-8 ( ) 8 or more 7. Do you think it is essential to use social media networking sites while at work? (Circle.) YES NO Indicate the extent to which you agree with the following statements as they relate to your CURRENT usage of Social...
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...Axia College Material Appendix D Floor Plan Site Survey Data Sheet The following tables will help you gather the data necessary for analyzing each of the five floor plans in the Floor Plan Site Survey exercise. As you go through the exercise, complete the information in each table. The information gathered in this assignment will assist you in your final project. Conference Center |Explain the major features of this floor plan. For example, are there large open spaces, large walls, cubes, or offices?| |Within this plan there are a lot of walls. This plan also has a lot of offices. | |Identify areas of this floor plan that may present issues when designing your network. Why will these areas present | |issues? For each area identified, what can you do to overcome the issue? | |The areas what I see that may present a problem would be the back hall way because it does not have any signal strength.| |I believe this happened because of all of the walls in between the access point and the back offices. One thing that | |can be done for this is to install another access point on the other end of the building or move the access point that | |already exists. | |Based on your site survey, do you think that placing the wireless access point in the data center is an ideal location...
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...connectivity. A site survey in a medium or large business required more physical work and time, a proper site survey interview should occur to both educate the customer and properly determine their needs. When a company is going to operate with cordless is necessary first to have a site survey, a good network wireless signal will provide the company the most powerful way to operate with portables devices. The prices of the installation will depends in the size of the building, for example a building of 75000 sq./ft. the price is around 100-150/hr. A site survey program can save significant amounts of time, money and any type of frustration when for the first installation or modifying an existing Wireless Local Network. The site survey will provide the necessary information that address coverage, interference sources, equipment placement, power consideration, wiring requirements. The site survey design requirements like the high availability, scalability, manageability, and interoperability. This site survey serves as a guide for network design and for the installation or verification of the wireless communication infrastructure. It is pretty important to create the correct questions during a site survey interview with the correct tools; this will help to make the site survey more productive. Some advantages of installing a site survey is the opportunity to have a wireless access point with reduce signal just covering inside of the building. A site survey will help...
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...procedure run past schedule time periods. Call hours may vary from four hours or more. Actual hours worked during the call period are unpredictable and can range from 30 minutes to the entire length of the call period. A large body of research exists about fatigue and sleep deprivation and their effect on performance. Research also suggest that work periods of 12 hours or more are associated with higher probability of making an error and increase in risk-taking behaviors. The Time-Out: While technologies and other innovations have advanced health care, these advancements have also led to failures in the delivery of safe patient care. Rates of wrong site surgery are still shocking and incidences of retained foreign bodies persist. Of great concern is wrong-site surgery (WSS), which encompasses surgery performed on the wrong side or site of the body, wrong surgical procedure performed, and surgery performed on the wrong patient. This definition also includes “any invasive procedure that exposes...
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...Introduction Surveys and experiments can prove to be an extremely valuable tool that organizations can use to gain pertinent information. In order to effectively utilize these tools firms must pay careful attention to the design, methodology, and ethical issues of the experiment chosen. Among these issues are variables in conducting experiments with human subjects, design elements affecting the accuracy of the experiment, and questions of methodology. The information below addresses each of these concerns and describes how experiments can become a valuable tool for organizations to plan for the future. Question 9.4 – Ethical Problems in Conducting Experiments with Human Subjects After choosing the experimental design, the researcher must then select and assign participants for the study. According to Cooper and Schindler (2014), participants selected for an experiment should be members of the population in which the researcher wishes to make interpretations about. When choosing to conduct experiments with humans as the main subjects, researchers should be aware of various ethical concerns that may arise. When ethical problems are debated in the research design process, most people often think first about defending the rights of the participant. Whether observations are taken from an interview, survey, or an experiment, the participant has many rights that need to be protected during the research process. As discussed in the text, research must be designed in a way...
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...card and what concepts needed to be explained further, but it also revealed customer appeal to the card and its features (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). The product optimization study was another online study conducted during the concept stage to determine the impact certain features have on a customer's decision to apply for the card and which of those features could potentially increase sales (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). This information proves beneficial in knowing which customers would not apply for the card and why and how the most appealing features would affect the profit margin. In the final stage of research, Starbucks measured the return on their marketing investment, using customer feedback obtained through yet another online survey after their new card was launched (Cooper & Schindler, 2011) . The customer feedback responded to customer awareness and the reasons why customers chose to apply, or not apply, for the card. This type of study measured the success of the card launch and how that success came about, along with whether or not the desired goals were reached. Before Starbucks could embark upon such research, the management-research question hierarchy had to be executed. Because Starbucks was more interested in expanding a current product, the actual management dilemma and line of questioning was in discovering the behavior of customers in introducing a dual-function card, the customer's understanding of the...
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...groups to evaluate/ assess the satisfaction level of customer and identify the most determined factors made sales of car. ← Identify the most determined factors made sales ← Consumer satisfaction (quality and convenience) ← Most effective Communication campaign ← Suggestion for further improvement etc.. RESEARCH DESIGN 1 Target Segment Respondent details Will be provided by Skoda ... 2 Sample Size : 48 |Age Group |Sample Size | | | | | | | | | | 3.3 Area Coverage Kathmandu Valley 5 Overall Survey Methodology The study will be quantitative in nature. The structured questionnaire will be canvassed to respondents selected. The investigator will be trained to be able to administer the set questionnaire. INFORMATION AREAS To avail the required information to meet the objective of the study, following information areas will be included in the questionnaire. The key areas/ points of diagnosis would be: ➢ Various features of Car ➢ Most considerable factors for sale of car ➢ Services which improve sales in future ➢ Preferred means for communicating ad campaign as well as campaign .. 3. FIELDWORK Field...
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...themes are survey methods, survey fatigue, and interpreting surveys. Data will be gathered from scholarly and unscholarly peer-reviewed journals. The articles demonstrated an application of knowledge to understand usable customer feedback. This paper will concentrate on revealing why businesses are dissatisfied with customer feedback and strategies a business can focus to improve customer feedback. We will also have a better understanding of why the customer feedback does not satisfy a company’s needs. The intent of this proposal is to show that businesses need to keep it simple when it comes to surveys. Obtaining usable customer feedback will give businesses a competitive advantage (Purdy, 2013). A business will understand that customers are overwhelmed with feedback and not answering correctly, or not doing surveys (Pecoraro, 2012). Customer feedback is the answer for keeping one business higher in a competitive business world (Jeppsen, 2010). Analysis and Opinions The literature review revealed the three themes that provided an insightful and thorough analysis of the issues that surround customer feedback. Survey methods is a structured questionnaire given to customers and designed to obtain specific information. Customers have expected to have their voices heard quicker with the social media-driven world (Bronx, 2012). Customers are satisfied sharing thoughts and opinions because technology makes it easier to access social media outlets (Bronx, 2012). Survey fatigue is...
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...Online Surveys Jiali Ye Georgia State University, USA Chapter VIII AbstRAct The widespread use of personal computers in the work place and at home has created a new opportunity of conducting research. With the increasing accessibility of the Internet and e-mail, using the new medium to distribute surveys is gaining popularity among researchers. The online survey, however, is a “double-edged sword,” with the ability to access a large number of respondents at low costs, but the risk of increasing difficulties to evaluate the quality of the research (Couper, 2000). Concerns over response rates, sampling, and controlling the data collection environment have posed serious challenges to online survey researchers. The purpose of the present chapter is to offer suggestions for addressing these concerns. After a brief discussion on the formats of online surveys, the author will outline the challenges of conducting online surveys, and provide some strategies to overcome these challenges. IntRoductIon formats of online surveys Internet-based research may appear in various forms, but generally there are two formats for online surveys: e-mail surveys and Web-based surveys. E-mail surveys. According to Bachmann, Elfrink, and Vazzana (1996), e-mail questionnaires appeared almost simultaneously with the introduction of e-mail. E-mail surveys used to be restricted to population samples from within a company or a university. With the increasing number of e-mail users, e-mail surveys have...
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