Wall Attenuation Reporting
The recent release of AI Pro from Ekahau now supports wall types with the option to configure unique wall attenuation values per band. This is a welcome feature addition, but immediately after seeing this feature I wondered how to include this information in custom template reports to document the configured wall type attenuation per band.
As the Ekahau online documentation for custom reports is slowly being updated for AI Pro, not all the new data and visualization tags are described. As a result, I wanted to document some new data tags that have been introduced to document band specific wall type attenuation values.
All tags were introduced in ESS 8.5.2 and all must be defined inside a wall type loop. Below are some of the already existing data tags related to documenting wall types:
| Name | Description | Data Tag |
|---|---|---|
| wall-type-name | Name of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-name}#> |
| wall-type-attenuation | Attenuation of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-attenuation}#> |
| wall-type-width-in-meters | Width in meters of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-width-in-meters}#> |
| wall-type-width-in-feet | Width in feet of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-width-in-feet}#> |
| wall-type-height-in-meters | Height in meters from floor level of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-height-in-meters}#> |
| wall-type-height-in-feet | Height in feet from floor level of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-height-in-feet}#> |
| wall-type-hover-in-meters | Hover height in meters from floor level of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-hover-in-meters}#> |
| wall-type-hover-in-feet | Hover height in feet from floor level of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-hover-in-feet}#> |
| wall-type-color-icon | An icon image that has the color of the current wall type. | <#${wall-type-color-icon}#> |
| wall-type-color-small-icon | Same as wall-type-color-icon tag but smaller. Introduced in ESS 8.6.2. | <#${wall-type-color-small-icon}#> |
| wall-type-color-large-icon | Same as wall-type-color-icon tag but larger. Introduced in ESS 8.6.2. | <#${wall-type-color-large-icon}#> |
Sample floor plan with walls drawn in:
We can use the tags in an example template:
Here we can see the output report from the above template:
Three new commands were introduced in AI Pro 11.0.0. All tags must be within a floor loop. The three data tags are:
| Name | Description | Data Tag |
|---|---|---|
| wall-type-attenuation-2.4 | Attenuation of the current wall type on the 2.4GHz band. | <#${wall-type-attenuation-2.4}#> |
| wall-type-attenuation-5 | Attenuation of the current wall type on the 5GHz band. | <#${wall-type-attenuation-5}#> |
| wall-type-attenuation-6 | Attenuation of the current wall type on the 6GHz band. | <#${wall-type-attenuation-6}#> |
We can use the new tags in an example template:
Here we can see the output report from the above template:
Slàinte!
Resources
Ekahau custom report documentation:
https://support.ekahau.com/hc/en-us/sections/115001529668
Propagation Losses Through Common Materials (Robert Wilson)
https://www.am1.us/wp-content/uploads/Documents/E10589_Propagation_Losses_2_and_5GHz.pdf