Welch Allyn Acuity LT Mobile - Installation Guide User Manual
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Appendix C Install additional APs
Welch Allyn Wireless Acuity LT Central Monitoring System
To install additional APs
After you receive additional APs, perform these steps to install them:
1.
Identify the location (or locations) where you want to place the additional AP (or APs).
Refer to
“Carefully plan the location of access points”
on page 8, and review the
information about obstructions and AP placement.
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Each AP must be located within at least 40 feet of another AP, to allow adequate
overlap between AP locations and adequate network coverage as wireless
patient monitors move throughout the facility.
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If your facility has additional obstructions (such as wire-mesh or metal reinforced
walls), you might need to locate the APs closer together than 40 feet.
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Before installing permanent wiring for the APs, run temporary data cables from
the switch to the new AP locations, and test the network coverage.
2.
Install wiring for the APs using guidelines in
3.
Temporarily install the APs as described in
“Install the Acuity LT System equipment”
on page 28. Make sure all supporting equipment is properly connected and powered
(PoEs, PoE power supplies, data cables, power cables and antennas).
You need an additional UPS for the PoE power supplies if your system has four or
more APs.
4.
Confirm that within two to three minutes of receiving power, the green Link LED (3rd
LED from left on the front of the AP) is continuously on.
5.
Measure RSSI throughout your facility to check the network coverage. (See
“Received signal strength indication (RSSI) check”
6.
If RSSI testing is satisfactory, perform the final installation of the new APs. (See
“Perform final installation of APs”
If RSSI testing is not satisfactory, refer to