Heat Mapper – freeware application from the Helsinki-founded but now multi-continental firm Ekahau – lets users visualize wi-fi coverage on a map or building diagram (which one needs – and which can be imported into Heat Mapper).What’s it useful for:
- Visualize Wi-Fi networks
- determine the physical reach of a given network
- display access points -and analyze their combined coverage, and/or individual characteristics
- identify security problems and open networks