Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center DAS Deployment

The hospital needed reliable signal on every floor. After a site survey, our RSRF team designed a passive Distributed Antenna System (DAS) to bring signal to the first and second floors, for a total of 300,000 sq ft coverage. Our design used a total of 8 SureCall Force5 units, 32 SureCall dome antennas, and plenum-rated cable throughout.

There were a lot of practical difficulties with the installation. The building had previously had asbestos. Although the asbestos had been mostly abated, our teams still needed to wear protective clothing and use dust tents to protect the hospital. Infection and contamination control meant that our teams had to take the highest level of care at every step, and required very restricted working hours. Unlike a lot of large installations, this was not an active construction site, or an ongoing wider refurbishment. This was a busy working hospital, and so our team began work in the evening and worked through the night.

During project handoff, our deployment team verified with the hospital IT staff that all the covered areas had 4-5 bars of LTE coverage. The result was absolutely worth the effort. Kaiser San Jose was so pleased with the results of the Force 5 passive DAS, they invited RSRF back to install another set of 5 antennas in an additional wing in the basement. The hospital now has excellent signal on every floor, allowing doctors, nurses, and administrative staff to communicate with ease.