Conduit, cable and access point positions fixed while the slab is still open — one drawing per unit type, repeated up the building. Your buyer plugs the router in on day one and the WiFi reaches every room. No chasing a finished wall after possession, no snag nobody owns.
Nobody raises WiFi at booking. They raise it three weeks after possession, in the owners' group, with a photo. By then the walls are painted and the cheapest answer is the ugliest one.
One ISP router in the utility, concrete everywhere else, and the master bedroom gets a single bar. Buyers rarely blame the router. They blame the flat — and they say so to the next buyer who visits.
Retro-fitting after handover means surface conduit across fresh paint, or chasing through a flat somebody already lives in. Whichever one you pick, it gets photographed.
With no standard in the handover pack, each buyer hires a different vendor. You inherit sixteen different networks, sixteen support numbers, and no consistent answer when somebody asks what the building provides.
WiFi coverage is not in the electrical contractor's scope and not in the ISP's scope. So it sits open on the list, gets escalated, and is eventually closed by somebody paying out of the wrong budget.
Two flats of identical carpet area can need one access point or three. What separates them is how many reinforced concrete walls sit between the incoming line and the far bedroom — which is exactly why the specification is drawn per unit type.
Reinforced concrete costs around 54 dB at 5 GHz. Blockwork costs 15. A layout with RCC between the bedrooms needs points on both sides of it; the same area in blockwork often does not.
An indoor router is capped at 100 mW, and the device at the far end needs the signal to arrive above a usable floor. Five metres of open air already costs 60 dB at 5 GHz. One RCC wall spends what is left.
The walls are the walls. What changes after possession is only the cost of getting a cable past them — chasing, making good and repainting a finished flat.
| What the signal crosses | Lost at 5 GHz |
|---|---|
| Reinforced concrete, 200 mm | 54 dB |
| Brick-faced concrete | 40 dB |
| Concrete, 100 mm | 26 dB |
| Brick | 15 dB |
| Blockwork | 15 dB |
| Timber | 3 dB |
| Plain glass | almost none |
| Plasterboard partition | almost none |
Attenuation figures measured by NIST NISTIR 6055. Free-space loss and the −67 dBm design floor are standard WLAN engineering practice.
On a new build the network costs almost nothing to provision and a fortune to add afterwards. Conduit and Cat6 to every access point position while the slab is still open, one specification per unit type repeated all the way up, and a network that is live on the day you hand over the keys.
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Pick the floors to fit out — every floor repeats the same two unit types.
We measure one flat of each layout and design the network for it — access point count, positions, conduit runs and a cable schedule.
That design becomes the standard for every unit of that type. Your contractor lays the conduit alongside the rest of the electrical first fix.
We install, configure and test each flat as it completes, and give you the readings in writing for the handover file.
A tower is not fifty problems, it is four or five unit types stacked. We survey one of each, agree the specification with you, and that drawing repeats on every floor above it. Below is the shape it usually takes — your plans decide the final count.
| Unit type | Carpet area | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 BHK | 400 – 600 sq ft | 1 |
| 2 BHK | 650 – 950 sq ft | 1 – 2 |
| 3 BHK | 1,100 – 1,400 sq ft | 2 |
| 4 BHK | 1,700 – 2,200 sq ft | 3 |
| Duplex / villa | 2,500 sq ft and up | 3 – 5 |
One access point covers roughly 950 sq ft of Indian residential construction. Long or L-shaped plans, double-height volumes and heavy stone or mirror work all pull the number up; open plans pull it down.
Five touch points across a build, plus one that happens after you have gone. None of them sit on your critical path, and only two of them need us on site.
Send the unit-type plans. They come back with point positions, cable routes and a count your MEP consultant can price into the tender.
Free · No site visitConduit and back boxes go in with the electrical first fix. Your contractor can pull it to our specification, or we pull it — whichever your programme prefers.
With electrical first fixAccess points mounted, terminations made off, the utility enclosure populated. This is one of the two days we are actually on your site.
1 day per sample floorEvery room walked and measured, every port proved. You get the readings per flat as a document, not as a verbal assurance.
Before handoverA one-page sheet in the buyer's file: what is installed, where it is, how to connect, and who to call. Your site team stops fielding the question.
In the handover packBuyers who want the network configured, extended or supported come to us directly. That is our arrangement with them, not another line on your budget.
Off your books"It should be fine" is not a handover document. Three things leave site with every unit, and all three are the sort of thing that closes an argument twelve months later.
Signal measured in every room of every unit type, recorded against the plan. If a room does not pass, it does not get signed off — it gets another point, before anybody moves in.
Where every cable runs, what it is labelled, what is in the utility enclosure. So the electrician who opens that cupboard in five years knows what they are looking at without calling anyone.
Plain language, no jargon: what is installed in this flat, what it does, what to plug the ISP router into, and the number to call. It ends the "is the WiFi included?" conversation at the door.
The cabling and the back boxes are brand-agnostic — that is the part that has to last thirty years, so it never gets tied to one vendor. For the hardware itself we work with three lines we know well, and we will price against whichever your procurement team prefers.
Ask for a specificationOmada — well distributed across India, spares easy to source in Mumbai, sensible for volume across a tower.
UniFi — the benchmark for clean ceiling hardware, and the one most buyers will already recognise by name.
Reyee — strong coverage per rupee, which tends to matter most on the larger unit types and the villa plots.
New residential projects across Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Panvel — towers, gated layouts and redevelopment schemes. If your site sits just outside these areas, ask anyway and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth the travel.
Share the floor plan — a DWG, a PDF or a photo of the print is enough — and we come back with access point positions, cable routes and a point count you can drop straight into your set. That part costs you nothing. We can run it as your subcontractor or deal with your client directly, whichever suits the project, and it is the same two of us on site every time.
Talk about a projectBrought in at drawing stage, the cabling is part of the build — no chasing, no surface trunking, no repeat visits.
One survey, one design, one install per unit. We re-test before handover and give you the readings in writing.
Your client hears about it from you. We turn up, do the work, and leave the site the way your finishing team left it.
Plenty of developers handle this themselves, and none of it is beyond a good contractor. It is a long list though, and most of it has to be settled before the slab is poured — which is the part that catches people out.
Coverage maps are not feasibility. Someone has to call each operator, get a site survey done, and establish which of them will genuinely bring fibre to your gate, on what lead time, and at what cost to you. Expect at least one to say yes and then discover the nearest usable junction is two streets away.
A trench or duct from the property line, a defined entry point, and a lockable, ventilated room with power and earthing for the operator’s equipment. Decide early whether one operator gets exclusivity or you leave room for two — retrofitting the second means opening the same trench again.
A vertical riser per wing, sleeves through every slab, and fire-stopping made good at each penetration. Separation from the electrical riser, spare capacity for the day somebody wants more, and a route the MEP contractor has actually agreed to rather than one drawn over their ducts.
Cat6A to each point that will need one, back-boxes set against the furniture layout rather than the empty plan, and a drop count that suits each unit type. Then every run tested and certified — an untested cable is a snag waiting for a resident to find it.
Switches with enough PoE budget to run every point at once, access points rated for the wall construction they are going into, and a controller you can still license in five years. Consumer routers stacked one per flat is the cheap answer, and the one that generates the complaints.
A channel plan, one SSID that roams properly, signal measured room by room, and a document that records it. Then whoever the resident rings at ten at night when it drops — that becomes you, or somebody you have paid to take it on.
The work is not the hard part. The sequencing is. Miss the slab and the same job costs several times as much, and leaves chases running through finished walls.
Talk about a projectThe ISP brings a line to the flat and leaves a router near it. That is the whole of their scope. Everything past that router — where the signal actually has to travel, through your walls — is nobody's job unless somebody specifies it. That is the gap this fills.
Yes, and on most projects that is the cheaper way to do it. We give them the routes, the conduit sizes and the termination standard, and we check the pull before it is covered. What we ask is that Cat6 is not run bundled alongside power for long parallel stretches, and that the bend radius is respected — those two mistakes are invisible until the day somebody tests the link.
At first-fix stage the cabling and boxes are a small fraction of what the same coverage costs to retro-fit after handover, because the expensive part of retro-fitting is not the cable — it is breaking and making good a finished flat. We price per unit type once your plans are fixed, and the drawing-stage markup that gets you that number is free.
Either. Some developers want the provision in their scope and the hardware left to the buyer; others want the whole thing done and handed over live. We can also do the shell as your subcontractor and then deal with buyers directly for anything they want beyond the standard.
Not necessarily. False ceilings, service ducts and skirting routes will often get us most of the way without touching a finished wall, and where a room genuinely cannot be reached we will tell you that rather than sell you a repeater that half works. It is more expensive than doing it at first fix, but it is rarely impossible.
We do, directly with the resident. It does not come back to your site office or your CRM team, and it is not a liability that sits on your books after the building is closed out.
Under RERA the defect liability runs for five years from possession, and “the WiFi does not reach the second bedroom” is exactly the kind of complaint that arrives inside that window with nothing on paper to settle it. Provisioning at first fix, and the coverage readings and as-built that leave site with each unit, turn an open-ended argument into a documented handover. It also gives your sales team something to say at booking: a home that is wired and works on day one.
One plan per unit type is enough to start. We will come back with point positions, cable routes and a count you can put into the tender — at no cost and with nothing attached to it. If your project does not need us, we will say so.
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