Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Using Video Clip as a part of DAS survey, design or closeout package

A picture is worth a thousand words; and video explains whatever words you didn't understand from those thousand words. Well no need to talk about the power of video - we all know that.

Video can always be a powerful addition to DAS package - whether it's survey, design or engineering, or close-out package. Sometimes you can look at multiple pictures, and still may not be able to figure out how it all comes together. It's not feasible for the DAS Design Engineer to survey all the sites - video can be the 2nd best thing. During my site walks I try to take video which may be hard for me to explain to the engineers. These can be especially effective if you are working on some sort of manufacturing plant.

A few weeks ago when I was working with one of our designer (Mr. Mir) on a large underground parking garage DAS, it was becoming hard to explain just through pictures, how the large I-Beams in the ceilings will have big impact on running the coaxial cable. Floor plans did not show these I-beams, and pictures were not sufficient. After seeing various pictures, when I pulled out the video on my phone the designer immediately understood what I was trying to explain. The short video clip basically brought it all together. You can see the video here: