Wireless site survey Los Angeles — Ekahau predictive, onsite, and validated.

CCIE and CWNP-level engineers delivering Ekahau-based predictive design, onsite AP-on-a-stick validation, and post-install heatmaps across LA County, Orange County, and the Inland Empire. Vendor-agnostic. Headquartered in Valencia, CA.

Scope a Site Survey

Wireless surveys built for real LA buildings.

Downtown high-rises with concrete cores. Historic Hollywood buildings with lath-and-plaster walls. Century City glass towers with reflective glazing. Warehouses out in Vernon and City of Industry with 40-foot steel racking. Casinos and stadiums with 20,000 clients on one SSID. LA’s RF environment is one of the most crowded in the country — 2.4 GHz is effectively unusable in most office buildings, and 5 GHz needs careful channel planning to stay above the noise floor. We design for that reality. Every engagement is Ekahau-driven, measurement-backed, and delivered with documentation your operations team and auditors can actually use.

What we deliver

Four survey types, one methodology. You tell us the stage, we tell you what the engagement looks like.

  • Predictive design in Ekahau Pro — floor-plan import, wall attenuation calibration, AP placement, antenna selection, capacity modeling
  • Onsite AP-on-a-stick validation — real AP, real antenna, real building, measured with Ekahau Sidekick 2
  • Passive and active surveys — RSSI, SNR, channel utilization, co-channel interference, iPerf throughput, roaming behavior
  • Spectrum analysis with Sidekick 2 — identify non-Wi-Fi interferers (Bluetooth, video bridges, microwave, DECT phones, radar)
  • Post-install validation heatmaps — proof the network hits the design spec, with documented evidence per floor
  • Deliverables — Ekahau project file, annotated heatmaps, BOM, mounting and cabling requirements, remediation list
  • Vendor-agnostic AP modeling — Cisco, Meraki, HPE Aruba, Juniper Mist, Ruckus, Extreme, Ubiquiti

Why Ekahau-based surveys

Ekahau Pro is the enterprise standard for Wi-Fi design — it’s what Cisco, HPE Aruba, Juniper Mist, and every serious CWNP-level engineer specifies with. We use it for four reasons:

Predictive design before anyone quotes hardware

Floor plans import, walls get attenuation values calibrated to the actual materials (drywall vs. CMU vs. reinforced concrete vs. demising glass), and the model places APs against a target — -65 dBm primary, -70 dBm secondary, 25 dB SNR, capacity for expected concurrent device count. You get a BOM before procurement, not after.

AP-on-a-stick validation — because predictive models lie about old buildings

LA has a lot of non-standard construction — pre-war buildings with metal lath, Art Deco towers with chicken-wire plaster, warehouses with rebar floors. Predictive models don’t know about any of that. We bring the actual AP model you’re deploying, mount it on a tripod, and measure. Attenuation values get corrected, AP counts adjust, and the design matches the building — not a spreadsheet.

Sidekick 2 spectrum analysis — find the thing nobody knew was there

Ekahau Sidekick 2 combines a dual 2.4/5/6 GHz capture radio with a built-in spectrum analyzer. We routinely find video senders saturating 5 GHz UNII-1, Bluetooth meshes eating 2.4 GHz, poorly-shielded LED drivers generating broadband noise, and radar triggering DFS channel evacuations. Site surveys without spectrum analysis miss all of that.

Post-install heatmaps — proof, not promises

After install, we re-walk the site and produce the validation heatmap. Every floor. Measured RSSI, SNR, data rate, channel utilization, roaming behavior on a real device. If it doesn’t hit spec, it’s on the remediation list before we sign off. That document is what your CIO, auditor, or the next engineer wants — and what most installers don’t provide.

Industries we serve in Los Angeles

LA-scale deployments we’re built for. Anonymized examples — vertical and scale only, per our VAR-partner privacy commitments.

  • Healthcare — multi-campus hospital systems, medical centers, ambulatory surgery. HIPAA-aware, CMS-grade Wi-Fi for nurse call, WOWs, telemetry, and Epic Rover
  • Higher education — residential campuses, lecture halls, stadiums, research labs. High-density design for 1:1 device ratios and modern streaming loads
  • K-12 — district-wide E-Rate-funded rollouts, CBT testing coverage, 1:1 Chromebook/iPad environments, bus Wi-Fi
  • Gaming and casinos — high-density slot floors, sportsbook, BOH operations, mobile wagering coverage, PCI-segmented SSIDs
  • Hospitality — hotels, resorts, convention centers. Per-room coverage, BYOD captive portal, high-density ballroom and meeting space
  • Distribution and warehouse — high-ceiling racking, cold storage, narrow-aisle robotics, barcode scanner roaming across 500,000+ sq ft footprints
  • Commercial real estate — Class A office towers, mixed-use, multi-tenant. Neutral-host DAS coordination, base-building amenity Wi-Fi
  • Stadiums and venues — concert halls, arenas, amphitheaters. 20,000-seat bowl coverage, under-seat APs, vomitory antenna planning

Greater LA coverage, engineer dispatched from Valencia

HQ is at 23890 Copper Hill Drive, #148, Valencia, CA 91354. We cover Downtown LA, Century City, Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Long Beach, Torrance, El Segundo, Santa Monica, Culver City, Beverly Hills, West LA, the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, the San Gabriel Valley, South Bay, Orange County, and the Inland Empire. Multi-site national rollouts ship out of the same delivery model — we travel.

Credentials, in one line each

Multi-CCIE engineering bench serving Los Angeles. Most of our engineers carry multiple expert-level certifications — CCIE, CCNP, Palo Alto PCNSE, Meraki CMNO/CMNA, Aruba ACMP, and adjacent security and cloud credentials. Ekahau ECSE certified. Vendor-agnostic across Cisco, Meraki, HPE Aruba, Juniper Mist, Ruckus, Extreme, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, and Ubiquiti. We do independent validation work for manufacturers and ISPs — hired specifically because we have no platform to make look good. Leadership with 25 years in enterprise networking. WiFi Hotshots was founded in 2019 as a DBA of LA Wireless LLC. Minority-owned. Public-sector registered: California DGS Small Business, City of Los Angeles SBE / LBE / EBE, California SPIN-listed supplier, and Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) registered. White-label delivery for VAR partners.

LA wireless survey FAQ

The questions procurement, IT directors, and VAR delivery managers ask us before signing the SOW.

It scales with square footage, floor count, building complexity, and survey type. A single-floor office predictive-only engagement is very different from a 400,000 sq ft warehouse with onsite AP-on-a-stick and post-install validation. Share the floor plans and scope — we’ll return a fixed-fee SOW, not an hourly guess.

New construction with standard materials — predictive design in Ekahau Pro is usually enough. Existing building, retrofit, unusual construction, mission-critical application, or anything where “it didn’t work last time” is the reason you’re calling — onsite AP-on-a-stick. Most serious projects combine both: predictive first to set the design, onsite to validate it before the PO goes out.

Yes. Sidekick 2 is standard kit on every onsite engagement. Dual-radio simultaneous 2.4/5/6 GHz capture, integrated spectrum analyzer, and Ekahau Pro for design and heatmap deliverables. We also carry NetAlly EtherScope and AirMagnet for supplementary analysis where the scope calls for it.

Cisco Catalyst 9100, Meraki MR, HPE Aruba 600/700 series, Juniper Mist, Ruckus, Extreme, Ubiquiti UniFi. Ekahau Pro ships with vendor-specific AP libraries, so the design is modeled against the actual hardware’s radio characteristics — not a generic placeholder. We’re deliberately vendor-agnostic. We’ll tell you which platform fits the use case, not which one pays us the most.

Onsite time is typically one day per 50,000–100,000 sq ft depending on density, obstruction, and access restrictions. Predictive-only engagements turn around in 1–2 weeks after floor plans and requirements are confirmed. Onsite plus deliverables typically land in 2–4 weeks. Rush timelines are available when the project needs it.

Both — or just the piece you need. Many LA clients engage us for design-only so their existing VAR and cabling contractor can execute. Many engage us end-to-end: survey, design, install, validate, operate. We’ll also do white-label delivery under a partner’s flag. See Partners for how that works.

The Ekahau project file (.esx), annotated predictive and measured heatmaps per floor (signal strength, SNR, data rate, channel utilization, interference), AP BOM with antenna and mount specs, cabling and power requirements, channel and power plan, spectrum analysis findings with photos, and a remediation list if any. Your operations team, auditor, or the next engineer can pick up the package and know exactly what was deployed and why.

Selected engagements — anonymized

Enterprise networks we’ve delivered at scale. Client names omitted per our VAR and partner agreements.

  • Major Southern California health system — four campus locations migrated across single overnight windows. Full IDF refresh, AP replacement, SD-Access cutover, fresh fiber and copper, emergency cellular backhaul staged. Each site back online for morning clinical operations
  • Fortune 500 technology headquarters — 1.9 million square feet of outdoor wireless design and deployment across the campus
  • Major Southern California K-12 district — 10,000 access point deployment paired with a six-node Cisco ISE cluster securing roughly 170,000 user seats
  • Major Southern California transit authority — fleet Wi-Fi rollout across bus lines and light rail

Scope an LA wireless site survey.

Send floor plans and scope. We’ll return a fixed-fee SOW, typically within the week. 844-946-8746 · sales@wifihotshots.com

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