SoftWright LLC software

SoftWright’s Asset Manager is specifically designed with wireless communication sites in mind.  It can operate as a stand-alone software package or fully integrated with TAP software.  This module is used to document all the details of how equipment is catalogued, installed and maintained at fixed radio sites as well as similar information about mobile units that are being maintained. It organizes related wireless assets, such as all the equipment at a single repeater site, or at a large antenna farm.  Asset Manager keeps track of maintenance schedules, equipment inventory including details such as serial numbers, space rental contracts, FCC license expiration dates, driving directions, and a multitude of other pertinent items.

The RF Facilities Module is used to build up a database of both fixed location and mobile radio transmitting and receiving facilities. This includes templates of typical configurations of antennas, transmission line, transmitters and receivers to be recalled for use at a later date to save time in data entry when setting up RF studies. This fixed facility database can also be populated directly from imported data previously entered into EXCEL, Access or ASCII files as well as from FCC databases using the Facilities Exchange File Format (Percon Corp.). Using this module facilitates calculations to determine adequacy of received signal levels, taking into account receiver antenna gain and receiver system losses such as building and body losses. The RF Facilities Module provides not only a number of handy utilities, but also the software interface between the Basic Mapping Module’s topo data access and  the other TAP Modules.

Given a set of transmitter and receiver geographic coordinates, the Map Crossing module will calculate distance and bearing, crossing points on the maps and a list of required topographic maps (if the path is in the US). This greatly facilitates the preparation of paper maps for a field inspection of a proposed or problematic path. The module supports multiple map scales, calculates corner coordinates for all maps on path, calculates distance from corner coordinates to plot entrance and exit of path on map and calculates path distance at point of crossing.

The Topo Utilities module will import USGS formatted ASCII files in their 3″ and 30 meter DEM resolutions and convert them to the TAP™ binary format for use in TAP™. An editor for TAP™ binary formatted topo data files (30″, 3″ and 30 meter) may be used to modify the contents of these files to make individual corrections of anomalies in these files. A viewer will graphically display any of these TAP™ binary formatted files one at a time.