Is your team experiencing dropped phone calls, slow data speeds, or poor coverage in general? Cell signal boosters for business buildings from company headquarters in metro areas to large warehouse facilities in Michigan suburbs increase productivity. Time is money and if your team can’t produce at the highest, most efficient rate, income is lost every second. Cell signal boosters may be a simple solution to increase productivity, reliability, and efficiency.
From the front office to the back warehouse communication channels must be seamless. You can reduce staff inefficiencies, customer frustration, and vendor miscommunications by evaluating your cell signal coverage and investing in professional installation.
Do you need a cell booster at your business location?
If you have a usable signal outside your vehicle, shop, or office building, but weak to no signal inside, then installing a cell booster system will improve your signal strength and cell service inside.
In most enterprise environments switching carriers won’t solve the problem. Your cell carrier has little control over dead spots in buildings. All cell signals, whether 4G, or 5G are radio frequency (RF) waves. Any kind of obstruction or interference will quickly erode reliability. A few strategically placed cell signal boosters in your building will maximize your coverage.
What Can Interfere With Cell Signals?
- your distance from cell towers
- geographic or structural interference
- electronic, magnetic, or other devices that interfere with signals
- weather
- congestion on carrier networks due to a heavy amount of users
- nature – including foliage, terrain, weather, etc.
- building materials
When you stack multiple issues on top of each other you can end up with dead zones. Michigan’s lower peninsula has to address a number of factors in nature including weather. In Michigan, that means, rain, winds, and snow.
Companies located in rural areas are also challenged by the geographical distance to cell towers. Add acres of woods around your building and you could essentially block the little bit of signal you need to broadcast and receive. Even if your building wasn’t constructed in a forest, dense tree leaves and foliage can wreak havoc with cell signals.
What Building Materials Effect Cell and WI-FI Signals?
Beyond the environmental issues, cell service in buildings is often affected by the types of building materials used in construction. Shops in pole barns plus large manufacturing and warehousing structures with metal roofs and metal siding are plagued with poor cell signals. Architects specify metal roofs for commercial and industrial structures for durability, affordability, and other reasons. Metal roofs are here to stay. Cell boosters offset the negative impact metal has on signal strength.
Glass:
Clear Window Glass – Instead of letting cell signals in, clear glass actually refracts and reflects them back.
Tinted and Low-E Glass – Environmentally friendly Low-E glass windows and doors keep heat and cold out while also reflecting cellular signals back. This Low-E glass typically has metal flakes embedded to provide rejection of heat and cold inside and out, but unfortunately, the metal in the glass can block RF signals including cellular signals.
Walls, Ceilings, Floors:
Insulation – Fiberglass insulation in ceilings and walls can reduce outside signals.
Drywall – Cover that insulation with gypsum drywall and you can expect to reduce cell signal penetration by 50%.
Plaster – Even that thin layer of plaster, or drywall mud can interfere with cell signal reach.
Brick – Historical downtown shops, retail centers, and office complex buildings built with clay, shale, or cement brick reduce cell signal filtration.
Concrete & Cement – As thick as concrete means not much is getting through and that includes cell signals. Chosen for its strength, concrete and cement are used in many modern industrial buildings. In metro areas such as in Detroit and Detroit suburbs, concrete and steel fight off signal strength.
Wood
Plywood – The density of plywood reduces signal strength in the building. If plywood gets wet you’re effectively in a dead zone.
Solid Wood – Does your building have wood doors, wood paneling, or wood floors? As beautiful as the natural look of solid wood is, it absorbs and blocks signals. The thicker the wood, the lower the signal too.
Metal
The biggest culprit for cellular signal blockage. Aluminum, copper, brass, steel, lead, iron, etc. creates a distortion of RF signals. This is why buildings with metal roofs suffer from reduced cell signal coverage.
So many materials block cellular signals, it’s a wonder any of us can talk let alone stream. Fortunately, there are alternatives and they’re not just for residential homes.
How Do I Boost My Cell Signal in Our Business Building?
Every business can find a cell booster system that is suited to their cell and WI-FI boosting needs. Cell Signal Pros designs and installs custom cell signal boosters for buildings in Michigan. A customized estimate is required due to the variety of factors that may be reducing the signal. For instance, some businesses have offices in the front of their building and warehousing in the back. The office may receive great signals and the warehouse may be a dead spot. This could be due to metal roofing or a variety of causes as mentioned above. The solution in this situation may be a mid-size booster for the warehousing area only. Keep in mind the larger the building the more complex the solution. In the scenario of a large building with weak signals, multiple high-capacity cell boosters and antennas may be required throughout the entire structure to reach strong levels.
Cell Signal Pros offers customized consultations to get your entire building connected. We don’t stop at just cell boosters. A system may include the installation of exterior towers to extend antenna reach. We help you find the best solution for all of your business locations through SE and lower Michigan. We will design your system to meet your goals.
Cell Signal Pros’ Enterprise Cell Signal Booster Installation Services is experiencing increasingly high demand as Michigan workers return to work after the pandemic shutdowns. Fill out this short form for a free cell booster quote. We look forward to talking to you about your specific needs.
Accurate proposals and expert support from consultation to installation will boost your business communications and your bottom line.
