Warehousing & Logistics
Warehouse WiFi that reaches every aisle, at full stock.
Scanners, voice picking, forklift terminals and WMS traffic all live on wireless. We survey at pick height, design around racking and mezzanines, and validate roaming, so the network keeps up with the operation.
The problems that stop when the RF design is right.
“Scanners drop out halfway down the aisle.”
Steel racking eats WiFi. We measure coverage at pick height, in the aisles where the work happens rather than from the office doorway, and design AP placement around the racking, not despite it.
“It worked fine until the warehouse filled up.”
Stock changes the RF environment: full pallets absorb and reflect signal that sailed through empty racking. We design for your busiest, fullest state, because that's when you need scanning most.
“Devices cling to the wrong access point.”
Forklifts and pickers move constantly; their scanners and voice devices have to hand over cleanly between APs. We design and validate roaming explicitly, so sessions survive the journey.
Measured where the work happens.
Warehouse WiFi fails in ways an office survey never sees: canyon effects between racking, dead spots behind full pallets, mezzanine steel, chargers and motors throwing interference.
Every Simplinet warehouse survey is measured with Ekahau AI Pro and Sidekick 2, aisle by aisle, at the height your devices actually work.
- Coverage measured in-aisle at scanner height
- Design modelled for full racking, not an empty shell
- Roaming paths validated for moving devices
- Interference sources identified and mapped
- Mezzanines, yards and loading bays included
- Written report with prioritised, vendor-neutral fixes
What logistics operations buy from us
Warehouse questions, answered
Can you survey while the warehouse is operating?
Yes, and we prefer it. Surveying a live operation captures the real RF environment: full racking, moving MHE, actual interference. We coordinate with your shift patterns and site access arrangements.
Our WMS vendor says the WiFi is the problem. Is it?
Sometimes. A troubleshooting survey settles the argument with measurement instead of finger-pointing: coverage, roaming, interference and capacity, mapped aisle by aisle, with evidence you can put in front of any vendor.
What does a warehouse survey cost?
Medium sites of 1,000–5,000m² typically run £1,250–£1,950 +VAT; larger sheds are from £1,950, sized at roughly a day per 2,000m². Fixed price after a free scoping call, including the written report and debrief.
Can you standardise WiFi across our whole network of sites?
Yes, that's our multi-site specialism: one tested reference design, rolled out and documented identically across every depot.
