| CPC H04W 16/18 (2013.01) [H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/06 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. An electronic device, comprising:
an interface circuit;
a display;
a computation device coupled to the interface circuit and the display; and
memory, coupled to the computation device, that stores program instructions, wherein, when executed by the computation device, the program instructions cause the electronic device to perform operations comprising:
automatically generating a radio-frequency project plan for a network in an environment using a radio-frequency model and a model corresponding to at least a portion of the environment, wherein the radio-frequency project plan comprises a number of access points, types of the access points and locations of the access points in the environment, and wherein the model specifies a two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) geometric layout of the environment and/or estimated parameters associated with radio-frequency properties of at least the portion of the environment;
based at least in part on the radio-frequency project plan, interactively providing installation instructions to an installer while a given access point in the access points is being installed in the environment, wherein providing the instructions comprises providing a digital representation of at least a portion of the environment proximate to a given location in the locations of the given access point;
after the given access point is installed, validating the given access point, wherein the validating comprises validating the given location and an orientation of the given access point;
performing automatic testing of the given access point, wherein the automatic testing comprises testing communication performance of the given access point; and
providing a comparison of estimated communication performance of the given access point in the radio-frequency project plan and measured communication performance of the given access point, wherein providing the comparison comprises providing a visual representation of the comparison, and the estimated communication performance is based at least in part on the radio-frequency project plan.
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