Cell Site Analysis – The Scales of Justice3645130
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Yes that’s right there is a ‘boring’ part to cell site analysis but it’s also invaluable as the bedrock to everything we do when preparing an expert cell site analysis report for either a prosecution or defence team.
We are of course referring to the production of call sequence tables. Call sequence tablesmake up a large proportion of an expert cell site analysis report and contain most of the information that acell site expert and subsequently the barristers, judge and jury will rely upon in any court proceedings. With such an important part to play it is imperative that this phase of our work is completed with absolute accuracy. In short what we have to do is interpret raw network engineering data and produce tables of easy to understand information showing a mobile phones call and data/internet usage together with the cell sites used to handle those activities.
Maybe boring is not quiet the right word to use and does not do this process justice. Perhaps a better term would be ‘essential ground work’ upon which everything else to do with cell site analysis is built. It’s fair to say that in today’s world of texting, calling and the use of mobile phone apps that even moderate usage of a mobile phone over a short period of time can generate hundreds if not thousands of rows of network engineering data. That’s where the fun begins really; we start by taking the engineering data, sort it, translate it and produce it in a simplified table that’s easy for all to understand. Many cases where cell site analysis is to be utilised in a court of law by a cell site expert will involve more than one mobile phone. In these cases the cell site expert will be required to consider all of the mobile phones for analysis and produce call sequence tables for each individual mobile.That’s when some bright spark in the office will come along (usually the cell site analysis expert) and say we need all of the individual schedules joining together to make one large combined table. This necessity comes from the need to analyse obviously more than one mobile, but also allows for cell site analysis to be compared between one mobile and possibly several others. The cell site analysis expert will expect to be in possession of a combined cell site analysis call schedule, and will commence his analysis starting with the planning of radio surveys at locations of interest. This will ultimately assist in preparing his cell site analysisreport in relation to the cell siting ofmobile or mobiles at given times/dates atthese particular locations . The cell site analysis call schedules are also an invaluable method of showing where two or more mobile phones are co-locating in an area together or not as the case may be. And if that wasn’t enough they are crucial when it comes to any form of statistical evaluation which includes call pattern analysis which identifies useful contact information such as who called who, how many times, specific dates/times and what type of calls etc. The value of properly produced accurate cell site analysis call schedules is quiet exhaustive in the hands of an experienced and qualified cell site analysis expert. Having two fully qualified in-house cell site experts,we have invested in sourcing bespoke software able to largely automate the process of reading network engineering data to produce the cell site analysis call schedules for our experts. This has many benefits to us as a company in terms of being able to produce the cell site analysis call schedules quickly which in turn also benefits our customers in the length of time we take to complete a job and ultimately also in the cost to our customers.
Regardless of work being commissioned by the Crown or the Defence teams, it is critical that the foundation work of call scheduling is completed accurately and speedily, thus being reliable and cost effective. It is from the ‘painstaking’ work of call scheduling that the credibility of the cell site analysis is evolved.
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