Warehousing & Cold Storage

WiFi is often the first thing businesses try for warehouse connectivity. The equipment is familiar, readily available, and relatively inexpensive. But WiFi operates at high frequencies, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and now 6 GHz, that struggle in warehouse environments. These frequencies don't propagate well around metal racking and dense inventory. The result is coverage gaps between aisles, dead zones in corners, and dropped connections for moving devices like forklifts and handheld scanners.

Operators often compensate by adding more access points, but this creates new problems. Overlapping coverage leads to channel interference. Devices roaming between access points experience connection drops. The network that worked during commissioning degrades as inventory levels change. Mobile coverage using low-band spectrum like 700 MHz behaves differently. Lower frequencies reflect and propagate through gaps that WiFi cannot reach, providing more consistent coverage with fewer devices.

Challenging environments need proper engineering, not guesswork. Axidra's 3D raytracing models how signals actually behave in your specific facility, accounting for racking configurations, inventory types, and construction materials. This produces right-sized solutions, not over-engineered systems that cost more than necessary, and not under-dimensioned systems that fail when you need them most.

For facilities with existing wireless infrastructure, our Bring Your Own Network (BYON) service brings your wireless networks into Axidra Cloud. Monitor coverage performance, identify weak spots, and model proposed changes before implementing them. Considering a racking reconfiguration? Draw the new layout and see how coverage changes. The same visibility applies whether we built the network or you did.