Windows Phone Thoughts: Berkeley's YellowJacket -- Pocket PC-Based Wi-Fi Site Survey Tool

"Yellowjacket™ is a calibrated wireless receiver module that interfaces with HP’s iPAQ® PocketPC® in sweeping, analyzing and optimizing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Networks. The receiver measures all 14 OFDM/DSSS network channels which operate on the IEEE 802.11b/g standard allowing the user to determine the AP’s MAC, SSID and RSSI signal levels for all access points on or off any 802.11b/g WISP or Hotspot. The Yellowjacket™ system uses a custom receiver, custom software and interfaces with an iPAQ 5000 series giving Yellowjacket™ the distinction of being the only true RF spectrum protocol analysis and direction finding tool accurate to within 1 dB...Yellowjacket™ is a passive, network independent device with the ability to see the 'whole picture' as well as pinpointing channel interference and hackers that plague so many 802.11b/g WISPs and Hotspots."



Here's one reason HP's iPAQ sleeve concept is useful. ;) It's not for most of us, but this looks like an awesome enterprise application that those of you setting up large 802.11 networks may want to check out. They also have other models that handle 802.11a.