iBwave Public Safety: Wireless Network Design & Planning Software
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PUBLIC SAFETY
PLAN, DESIGN AND PROPOSE PUBLIC SAFETY NETWORKS THAT BUILDING OWNERS AND AHJS WILL APPROVE.
iBwave’s Public Safety solution is the established standard to design reliable Public Safety networks with proper documentation while saving time and costs. Our software makes it easy to design and simulate network performance for greenfield or existing buildings, and accelerates the approval process with building owners and AHJs by presenting detailed standardized documentation. iBwave has the tools, training and support so you can design Public Safety Networks we all can count on.
Need to survey Public Safety networks?
Introducing a simple, lightweight and affordable way to survey Public Safety networks.
Seamlessly integrate with Epiq Solutions’ PRiSM™ scanner
- Lightweight and low-visibility hand-held device that magnetically attaches to your phone or tablet to survey P25 networks.
- Seamless integration to iBwave Mobile Survey for a simplified end-to-end survey and design experience.
- Perform grid testing and generate automatic Pass/Fail reports to easily submit to AHJs for approval.
A recognized expertise you can count on
With more than 20 years experience, iBwave’s expertise in all things wireless is unparalleled. Along with industry-standard software, we are recognized for world-class support in 100+ countries, providing the industry’s most comprehensive components database and a well-established certification program with over 3000 certified professionals around the globe.
- Design reliable Public Safety networks using Active or Passive DAS on all public safety bands including P25, Tetra and FirstNet
- Benefit from the most comprehensive component database on the market with over 37,500 components
- We provide world-class training and certification programs to help you get the most out of your software
- Unparalleled 24/5 support team with a 95%+ approval rating
Design reliable networks for mission critical applications
Test the coverage and throughput of your network before it is deployed using our prediction engine proven and trusted by thousands of customers worldwide. Ensure your network’s availability by simulating traffic in critical and non-critical areas. Validate the performance compliance based on key requirements and prevent costly changes post installation.
- Fast Ray Tracing, COST 231 and VPLE (quick design) propagation
- Precise 3D coverage output maps (Downlink and Uplink RSSI, RSRP, AGC, Near-Far Effect)
- Signal quality and data rate output maps (SNIR, RSRQ, MADR)
- Smart Antenna Contouring to show live signal strength predictions
- Body loss modeling for highly dense venues (stadium, arena, etc.)
- LTE best server & hand-off matrix to optimize existing design for higher data rate
- PIM calculations and EMF calculation and analysis
- Compliance results based on user defined pass/fail criteria
- Donor Antenna isolation validation
- Critical/General Zone Identification
Deploy more sites faster and reduce your costs
Automate and simplify the design of your public safety networks to reduce your time to deployment. Eliminate the risk of over designing a network by modeling your venue in detailed 3D and simulating your network before it’s deployed to optimize hardware placement for the most cost-efficient design.
- Detailed network diagrams with automated link budget calculations
- Coax, CAT5 or Fiber cabling backhaul modeling
- Customizable equipment cost and list of approved parts
- Network validation and error checking
- Automatic error-checking
- On screen debug list
- Network simulation
- Streamlined work with advanced 3D modeling and customizable stencils
- Free 3D viewer for your clients to accelerate the approval process
Standardized network reporting for faster approvals
Once your design is complete you can quickly generate your link budget, equipment lists and compliancy reports to ensure performance criterias are met so you can get your project approved quickly.
- View network design and performance in advanced 3D
- Annotations, Output maps & Survey data reports
- Equipment list & Cost Details reports
- Link budget and horizontal link budget reports
- Antennas report
- Cable Routing & Cross-reference report
- Version tracking to ensure design consistency across multiple projects
- Compliance report
Integration with 3rd party collection tools
iBwave Public Safety integrates will all the major collection tools. This means you will spend less time manually transferring data between tools and more time leveraging RF measurements to deliver the most accurate and optimized designs for your customers.
- Import RF measurements from most leading RF collection tool
- Consider macro network using a given value, macro planning tool, or survey measurements
- Calibrate the prediction model using CW field measurements
- Survey measurement and prediction vs. measured reports
POSTER: PUBLIC SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES
Designing public safety networks? Then our newest quick reference poster is for you.
Download it today to benefit from having useful technical public safety technologies information right at your fingertips for quick reference as you work. From VHF and UHF bands to a technical comparison of public safety radio technologies, and more.
Support services
We offer a full list of services such as building and environment modeling, creation and certification of components, and legacy project design conversion to the iBwave format.
Annual maintenance services
iBwave’s entire product suite is covered by an optional Annual Maintenance Service for full customer support, and access to updates and upgrades on all our products.
What's new
iBwave Public Safety
GIS Maps integrated
We’ve just added GIS Maps to iBwave Public Safety to enhance your indoor/outdoor network designs, boosting your workflows and efficiency across use cases like campuses, hospitals, airports, mines, and more! This upgrade strengthens the integration with iBwave Reach—our powerful solution for designing accurate outdoor networks—enabling faster and more advanced analysis directly within iBwave Public Safety!
Power Consumption Report
This report will help you evaluate the energy efficiency of your network designs, providing valuable insights for reducing your carbon footprint and optimizing energy use.
Technical requirements
iBwave Public Safety
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
- Install the latest Windows service packs and critical updates from the Windows Update site
- Administrative rights are required during installation
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
Smooth and rapid operation of iBwave Public Safety is highly dependent on Boost Clock Speed of the processor, the number of cores, and the amount of RAM in the system. For highly complex designs involving a large surface area, high number of transmitters, and number of wireless services, the Recommended specifications listed in this document are meant to provide the best experience for users attempting to build accurate designs through rapid iterations of designing and predicting the system.
2. RECOMMENDED SPECIFICATIONS
The following table describes the minimum and recommended specifications of iBwave Public Safety. A Recommended system is one that can reliably execute complex designs over large venues with numerous transmitters and large square footage.
Recommended Specifications will offer the highest performance while offering similar results in terms of execution time for a single user.
| Desktop Minimum | Recommended | |||
| Laptop (Mobile CPUs) | Desktop | Cloud | ||
| Processor | Intel Core i5 AMD Ryzen 5 | Intel Core i7 AMD Ryzen 7 | Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 9 | Intel XEON Platinum AMD EPYC 9xx4 |
| CPU Clock Speed | 4+ GHz Boost Clock | 4+ GHz Boost Clock | 5+ GHz Boost Clock | 3.40 GHz |
| Core | 6+ Performance Cores | 6+ Performance Cores | 8+ Performance Cores | 128 Cores |
| Operating System | Win 10 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor | Win 10 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor | Win 11 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor | Windows Server 2022 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4/DDR5 | 16 GB DDR4/DDR5 | 128 GB DDR5 | 256 GB |
| Storage | 1TB NVME | 1TB NVME | 2TB NVME | 2TB+ |
| Performance (Stadium – Signal Strength) | 2h 30m | 3h 24m | 1h 13m | 1h 01m |
2.1 GPU-ACCELERATED SPECIFICATIONS
When coupled with GPU acceleration using supported CUDA® operations on Nvidia® devices, there is a marked reduction in prediction times on these systems. The base computation for every prediction map is the creation of Signal Strength matrices describing the power at each point of a prediction map. Utilizing the GPU for these computations can result in further performance gains relative to the system used.
Note: CUDA GPU Acceleration is available starting in Release 22 of iBwave Public Safety for all packages of iBwave Public Safety.
| Laptop | Desktop | Cloud | |
| System | As Recommended | As Recommended | As Recommended |
| NVIDIA Video Card | RTX 4070 (Mobile) | RTX 4090 | A100 |
| GPU-Accelerated Prediction Time | 1h 43m | 28m | 29m |
CERTIFIED NVIDIA® DEVICES:
Devices that comply with a minimum of CUDA® Compute Level of 6.1 will be capable of running GPU-accelerated predictions (see the following table - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus). Of these devices only the following devices have been internally tested for use with CUDA® Accelerated predictions:
- Nvidia 4xxx-Series of devices
- Nvidia A40 / A100 Cloud devices
Wi-Fi ADAPTERS
All Wi-Fi adapters are supportedAdvanced Support
The following adapters include support for channel filtering and custom scan rate:
- Netgear A6200
- D-Link DWA-182 Revision A1
- Asus USB-AC53
- Buffalo AC866 N300
- Belkin F9L1106az v1
- BT 11ac Dual Band 900
- AirPcap Nx: USB 802.11a/b/g/n
* iBwave Public Safety does not allow the usage of multiple simultaneous Terminal Server sessions.
* iBwave Public Safety will not run under multiple simultaneous Terminal Servers.
* iBwave Public Safety product line is not supported on virtual environments.