Track: Operations Management

Abstract

The technique for site surveys at telecommunication towers in Malaysia has always been the conventional way rather than the new technique. A Radio Frequency (RF) site survey is arranging and scheming a wireless network to administer a wireless elucidation that will give the necessary circumstances. The results of these RF readings using a spectrum analyser to determine the non-overlapping frequencies when planning for a new RF transmission later. The current RF observation process may be time-consuming, but the safety and accuracy could be improved, affecting cost and quality. There have been many past tests that have used drones as tools to carry tools according to their respective objectives based on previous research, and most carry an improvement. The information gathered on whether the conventional or the new technique is more sustainable, which based on a case study on several similar sites using two distinct techniques, the conventional and a drone, as carrier agents of measurement tools. From the comparison, the RF scanning survey using the drone technique was much faster in execution, cheaper, and collected better data than the conventional method. This proves that this new technique can be practised for how it works in the future.