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Field Description
Name Name of the building located in an existing campus.
Address Building or Campus address
Longitude &
Latitude
These fields are used to represent a building on Google Earth.
Ceiling Height
The normal distance between floors in the building. This value can be overridden as each
floor is created, but this is the default value for every new floor added to the system. This
data element can be imported or exported to external planning tools like Ekahau. It is not
currently used by AirWave.
NOTE: This field is titled Distance between floors in the Flash-based UI.
Attenuation
Enter the attenuation loss in decibels between floors. This value can be overridden as
each floor is created, but this is the default value for every new floor added to the system.
This data element can be imported or exported to external planning tools like Ekahau. It is
not currently used by AirWave.
NOTE: This field is titled Attenuation between floors in the Flash-based UI.
Table 159: New Building Fields and Descriptions
The legacy Flash-based UI also includes fields to configure client transmit power and desired speed values used for
automatic placement of APs into floors within this campus. In the default HTML5 UI, these fields are located in the
Advanced section of the floor Properties menu.
Figure 217:Create New Building Window
4. Select Save. A new building icon will appear in the upper-left corner of the background canvas.
5. Drag the Building icon to the appropriate location on the map background.
You are now ready to import your floor plan.