Connectivity through the power of light

FindLOS tells you, before anyone climbs a roof, whether two places can see each other.

It is made by Nav Wireless Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a company that builds links which carry data on a beam of light, and by the engineer who built it for his team.

The tool

What FindLOS does

An optical link only works when nothing solid stands between its two ends. Checking that used to mean reading terrain maps by hand, link by link. FindLOS does it from the ground's height along the path, the rise of the ground from the Earth's round shape, and a clearance margin for trees, new buildings and survey error — the same way for every link.

  • LOS Analysis

    Place two sites, give their mounting heights, and see whether the ground stays below the straight beam with your clearance margin to spare.

  • Bulk Analysis

    Check many site pairs from one Google Earth file and download the results.

  • Link Studio

    Watch how an OpticSpectra link would behave at those two sites in different weather.

  • Alignment

    On site, point each device at the far end with a compass bearing and tilt.

  • Fiber Planning

    Estimate a road route for fiber between two points, to compare with a wireless link.

It was built for the Nav Wireless team first. Accounts are approved by hand; a clear answer is a reason to visit the site, not a replacement for checking it in person.

The maker

Raj Patel

Raj Patel

Product builder · Operations, Nav Wireless

Raj runs FSO deployments for Nav Wireless, including defence projects in remote and high-altitude terrain. He saw how much time line-of-sight checks took his team and built FindLOS to make that check quick and the same every time.

His work covers FSO links, secure networks, cloud systems and taking a project from a field trial to a working deployment.

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