Building a Testing Platform for Wireless Location Services

Abstract

Elisa Oyj commissioned this thesis. Elisa Oyj offers indoor location services to its corporate customers. The current users of these services are healthcare and social services companies. Elisa has a small-scale testing environment used to validate substantial changes like major upgrades before implementing the changes at customer sites. There is a growing need to evaluate features from the latest software versions and new systems simultaneously. The goal for this thesis assignment is to be able to provide better tools for the needs of the customers and expand the used platforms to include more of the requested features.

This thesis focuses on designing and implementing a testing environment that can be used not only to test the current location services but also to assess other vendors and new products and features. The idea is also to use the environment as a training and testing sandbox that does not affect services in production. The site can also be used as a demonstration environment for customer cases.

The environment that was designed and implemented in this thesis assignment is currently in use for testing the second iteration of vendors. There is also an evaluation phase implementation with new location services that are not in use with our current customers. The environment is improved with every iteration of new software and when adding new vendors’ products.