How the API suite works: Your site code includes simple “calls” to the Wireless Applications servers. Responses are returned in a flash to be displayed in your site in real time.
Introducing our suite of web service Telecom Application Programming Interface (API). Use this service for performing telecom infrastructure analysis within your site. Carriers, Tower companies, Web App programmers and Wireless Service Providers alike can immediately begin amping up their software with power from the Wireless Applications’ cloud service.
“We’re offering our family jewels to the general public”, said Eric Wills, CEO/ President of Wireless Applications, Corp., “Now companies throughout our industry can integrate our powerful software for RF Propagation modeling in 15 seconds, or send calls for Microwave path profiling, Tower Searching and Spectrum Ownership Analysis! Within minutes you can begin to realize these features in your software and/or site.”
Professional and powerful telecom analysis and design software functions may now easily integrated into your site with our web service API suite. Sign up for a free dev key and begin immediately seeing how easy it is to integrate these powerful functions in your software. Included in the developers homepage are samples of PHP, C#, JavaScript and even Objective C for those popular phone apps. There is an assortment of simple examples of telecom functions and map integration. Capture more web-surfers and ultimately more bottom line revenue for your company.
Bottom line, you can now capture more web-surfers and ultimately more bottom line revenue for your company. Using this API is simple and straight forward. Programmers need only to make simple web service calls to realize the powerful computational features hosted on our server farm.
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With the Wireless Applications’ API suite, you can perform multiple powerful telecom analysis functions (called methods in API lingo) using our simple web service calls within your site’s code. With worldwide databases of terrain, and complex calculations, it’s only logical that the API suite runs on our server farm ensuring lighting fast response for results back to you. Whether generating RF coverage plots or analyzing a path profile Fresnel for a microwave link design, our software is optimized for speed so that you and your clients can focus on the detailed results in real time.
The following descriptions provide an overview of highlighted functions in the Telecom API suite. To fully explore the depth of functions available, call us for a demo, and/or just sign up for your free development key.
In this category of calls, users may query our branded eCoverage product which provides RF propagation modeling of a radio signal over terrain. You can integrate the resulting graphical output of this radio broadcast coverage into your mapping software, web applications or other mapping API interface (such as Google or Bing). eCoverage generates a full Longley-Rice modeled propagation plot with lighting speed. Wireless Applications has developed the eCoverage software to be more intelligent, requiring only very simple input values while running complex math in our server farm. This allows both novice and experienced telecom personnel to quickly receive comprehensive results. Wireless Applications also provides the ability to query the resultant model of RF coverage geography for demographic census data (from population counts to age groups), highway traffic count and business counts! (Note these options are currently limited to the United States.) And finally, within this category, there are calls to generate FCC Height Above Average Terrain (HAAT) calculations using 30 meter DEMs. HAAT calculations are used for generating Carey Contours and TV Broadcast contours. Using this API call, you can generate genuine TV Contours, such as those used for computing 51 dBu (and/or other levels) that work great for analyzing TV broadcast white space and for performing interference inspections.
Analyze the Line-of-Site (LOS) between two structures relative to terrain databases. Us our call to generate a path profile showing a 2-D slice through terrain which displays the microwave Fresnel zone clearances relative to the terrain in simple to read pictorial and\or in data formats. Our server farms include multiple worldwide terrain databases for users query from. Depending upon geographic location, DEM terrain is available with down to 10 meter resolution! We even include SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) terrain database (down to 30 meters, depending upon geography) which is great data for identifying buildings or trees above DEM ground level. Many of our clients say this is an excellent method to truly analyze clutter. Also available in the US geography are calls for another layer normally called ‘Clutter Data’ or formally, National Land Cover Database (NLCD). Your calls to this method display the assigned colorization of data into heights which can be seen via the path profile. The call for path profile LOS also includes options to display graphical representations of water, such as lakes or rivers and highlighted areas of your path that may cross over or through an airport runway (airport data in USA only at this time). Experienced microwave designers will tell you these are must-have features!
This call returns the entity owners of spectrum for a given location throughout the USA, including the radio service type, the amount of spectrum and the frequency ranges either owned or leased. Wireless Applications breaks down the boundaries to the smallest carved out territories for accurate results giving analysts the detail to truly understand the telecom ‘chessboard’. With these calls, users are given the power to compare ownership of a BTA level versus research that reveals ownership of somebody that only has two and a half counties and a sliver of the 10 MHz allocated. And not only is the ownership data available, but users can also make calls to return the actual vector graphics of the custom carved boundaries.
Integrate calls to search for Microwave Paths as well as protected Polygons. This search may be performed via Lat/Lon location coupled with a radius, or by a specific boundary box, or by specific Call Sign. Many engineers may not be aware of all the unique properties to microwave, the first being that the radio services cover a very large frequency range of spectrum and second is that they are made up of multiple types of transmissions, such as Point to Point, Point to Repeater, Point with Radius, and Closed Boundaries of which some amount of paths will operate within. The Wireless Applications API calls can return all of these types relative to your request. For example, if you request a location with radius and your designated search circle intersects even a small corner of any licensed microwave Polygon boundary, the call will return the record and the details to display the microwave boundary. That same search will also return any A to B paths that intersect the search circle by either one or both their end points or even if the path crosses overtop your circle. These calls return all the information for generating a graphical presentation of each path and/or the underlining entity and design data assigned to it.
As the information age continues to migrate to smart phones, there are more and more telecom infrastructure professionals searching for the ideal locations to place antennas. Over the 10+ years that Wireless Applications has been in existence, the team has amassed databases of telecom structures. Every week the team sifts through new data expanding these databases. Using these calls, search the 1M+ records in multiple databases within the United States for telecom structures relative to a given Lat/Lon location and radius or relative to a given boundary (multiple options). The multiple database include “FAA” – FAA Determinations, “FCC” – FCC Antenna Structure Registrations (ASR), “MW” – Microwave Filings, “MWAPP” – Microwave Application Filings, and “TC” – Tower Company Records. For TC, either the Tower Company passes their tower data to Wireless Applications, or we pull the publically available data into our one convenient database. This call allows for developers to search the databases by geometric definition over geography (search ring or polygon or state, etc.), and/or by other parameters such as tower height and tower owners. The results may be queried for data only returns or may also be queried for graphical representation returns such as displaying the ‘dots’ in a Bing, or Google Maps API. All the fields for the records are available for your team to return and display or integrate into your site or software.
Croft Enterprises
Croft Enterprises provides an intelligent search engine for internet surfers. As part of their suite of online services, they offer a terrain path profiling analysis feature and a radio signal propagation modeling feature. Croft attributes an increase in internet search traffic of 2% to these new features.
Croft uses approximately 530,000 API calls per year and negotiated a special 600K bucket purchase.
Teleproject Co
Teleproject Co provides a software suite of tools that supports telecom infrastructure logistics. They use the WACorp web service API suite to allow their customers to search existing structures and spectrum ownership in the United States, run RF propagation models in a flash, and analyze terrain profiles for microwave LOS viability… without ever leaving the Telecom Logistics software package.
Teleproject Co uses approximately 110,000 API calls per year, purchasing batches of 28,000 call buckets approx every 4 months.
TrollComm
TrollComm is a telecom engineering firm that designs and builds turnkey networks for wireless providers. Using their intranet software services (with embedded WACorp API calls), the site acquisition team is able to perform RF coverage plots in support collocation studies. TrollComm has also ported their software to smart phones, allowing their field teams to evaluate potential sites in real time.
TrollComm uses approximately 22,000 API calls per year, purchasing 3 bucket of 4,000 calls approx twice a year.
Bluestar Communication
Bluestar Communication, Tower Ventures has a small, yet growing tower investment arm. Their team has integrated WACorp APIs into their website to allow their clients to perform search rings within their site and to identify the best towers for their clients to collocate on.
Bluestar uses approximately 4,000 API calls per year, purchasing additional 500 call buckets as their total call reserves fall below 50 calls.
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TrollComm is a telecom engineering pioneer using its’ intranet service for RF coverage over smart phones. Purchases 4,000 Call Buckets
Teleproject Co
Teleproject provides a suite of software tools to manage projects and telecom infrastructure. Purchases 28,000 Call Buckets
Bluestar Communication
Bluestar is a telecom investment company that allows clients to search for towers on their website. Purchases 500 Call Buckets
What is a web service API? API = Application Programming Interface. An API is an interface with given interactions and a set of functions used by components of a software system. A full API suite is generally bundled in libraries allowing use of different programming languages such as C# (“See Sharp”) PHP, Objective C (for iPhone) or Javascript with ‘hooks’ from the outside world to use it.
How do we get started using the WACorp API? Purchase calls and get an API Key on the Purchase tab. Or click on the above “Free API Development Key” and sign up.
How does the WACorp API work? By embedding software calls to the WACorp API within your web based software, you initiate a requirement to provide values, then request results. For instance, to initiate an RF propagation model, you send a call that initiates the sequence. The software responds with a request for power, frequency, location and height values. The users enters the values, they get sent with a call to WACorp. The WACorp server farm performs the calculations, and sends a resultant model back to the user.
Does the free development version have all functionality? The free development version allows users to use every API call. There is a limitation to a specific geographic region in Colorado, however. It’s very easy to upgrade to the full version once the developers are satisfied they have fully configured their software.
How is the full WACorp API priced? Each time a user accesses the WACorp API with a web call, that counts as a single call event. Clients may purchase buckets of API calls from three value offerings. The larger bucket that is purchased, the better value per API call. For custom purchases, please call Wireless Applications at 425 643-5000.
How do we track the API calls made versus how many we have purchased? There is a very handy statistics and tracking feature to track your calls made and any failed calls. Developers can access this feature at any time.
Can we sign up to automatically renew our purchased bucket of API calls when our account gets down to 10% left? This is a future feature that WACorp will be incorporating at a later release. Please check back.
