Acrylic WiFi Heatmaps

A wireless network can look fine on paper and still leave dead zones in a warehouse aisle or a far corner of an office. Acrylic WiFi Heatmaps helps people lay out WiFi networks before they are built and survey those already running. It is used from a laptop or tablet, and the vendor says thousands of people, from beginners to professionals, use it to improve their wireless coverage. The company's own site is written in Spanish, with the product described in English in the listing material.

Planning a network from scratch

The predictive planning function is intended for the stage before deployment. It models how the WiFi signal will spread through a space, so that users can choose the best positions and settings for access points before any hardware goes up. This allows a network to be designed from nothing, with coverage and network quality estimated in advance.

Surveying a network that already exists

For an installed network, the tool carries out a site survey and draws heatmaps of coverage and network quality. The color maps show where the signal is strong, where it falls away and where performance suffers. The vendor says the results are presented through charts and metrics designed to be intuitive and easy to follow, which helps less experienced users read them.

Finding and fixing problem areas

Beyond the maps, the software analyses what is happening in the network in real time. It identifies connected clients, detects access points and devices such as routers, tablets, phones and laptops, and measures performance. Its aim is to locate trouble spots and offer recommendations for improvement, so that slow connections and dropped links can be dealt with. It supports WiFi 6E in the 6 GHz band, as well as WiFi 6 in the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands.

Reports and project records

Results can be turned into editable reports. Projects and evidence can be saved, which lets a consultant or an in-house engineer keep a record of how a network was designed and what a later survey found.

The wider Acrylic range

The tool belongs to a wider group of Acrylic products from the same company. The site refers to a WiFi analyzer for troubleshooting, an advanced packet sniffer that captures the packets sent by nearby devices so that wireless protocols can be studied at a low level, Bluetooth analysis, and tools for signals and geographic intelligence. The packet capture is described as working with common hardware and alongside Wireshark.

Who it is for

The simplicity of the interface is the company's stated commitment, and the audience runs from people setting up a first network to network engineers who survey many sites and check performance across installations.

Acrylic WiFi Heatmaps is a tool for planning and surveying wireless networks. It runs on a laptop or tablet and helps users design a WiFi network, measure what is already installed and find where the signal is weak.

What Acrylic WiFi Heatmaps offers

• Site survey: produces coverage and network quality heatmaps for an existing installation.
• Predictive planning: estimates how WiFi signal will spread before deployment, to place access points and set them up well.
• Problem detection: locates trouble spots and gives recommendations for improvement.
• Reports: generates editable reports and stores projects and evidence.

Who it works with

The tool is aimed at everyone from beginners to professionals, and covers every stage from planning a network from scratch to assessing one already running.