Quuppa System Simulator User Manual

Learning to use the Quuppa system without a physical installation

• Experiment with the Quuppa project configuration across different functionalities.
• Test your connection to the Quuppa Positioning Engine API to see how it works.
• Create your own API data formats and test them.

Developing and testing applications

• Use the API to create and test interfaces and connectivity, and verify functionalities and triggered events on your applications and Location Based Services.

Optimising deployments

• Check the positioning performance of your planned system. If the positioning doesn’t work well with the simulation, it is definitely not going to work well in real life either.
  Note: However, the reverse is not necessarily true and a deployment that works in the simulator may not always work in real life. There are also other factors, such as walls and tag placement that can have negative impact on the accuracy of the system.

• Test the effect of having different Locator types, mixed deployments, different Locator constellation, tag transmit power and rate, etc.

Testing and dimensioning hardware

• Test how your server computer can handle the load that your hypothetical system would create. See how many tags you can squeeze into the same space. See how much storage space you need for your data. Test your network capacity.
  Note: The QSS runs under general assumptions of the physics of RF propagation and it does not consider specific environmental effects such as walls and other obstacles, tag placement, etc.