The second feature release of 2026 majors on testing, security hardening and improvements to the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). New features include Throughput, a new Satellite Spotbeam API and the PNUT project interface with offline 3D Tiles. New features… Read more: SOOTHSAYER-1.12-released

Simulating radio coverage shows where a signal can reach, but to see how fast a data signal could be, we need to measure its throughput. Throughput is a key performance requirement for digital radio systems and determines what a link is capable of.… Read more: Simulating Throughput

We have developed a plugin for Autodesk Revit to allow Revit customers to perform radio simulation direct from the app. Features More information This plugin is in an alpha stage of development and isn’t as fast as we would like… Read more: Autodesk Revit CloudRF plugin

By popular request we integrated the SignalHound BB60D SDR with our simulation API to develop several novel capabilities relating to geo-location and antenna power measurement. This proved two key principles; Grid-search is a viable geo-location technique if a simulation API… Read more: SignalHound integration field test

The Project and Network User Tool (PNUT) is the latest CloudRF interface, developed to meet growing demand for full spectrum planning. Background CloudRF’s innovative interfaces have evolved a lot in 14 years, driven by user feedback, with a focus on… Read more: PNUT Interface v1

Visualising the physical environment has never been easier, thanks to powerful end-user devices running mapping software with hardware acceleration. The latest step in the evolution of mapping is the shift from “2.5D” representations to full three-dimensional terrain and models. The… Read more: 3D Tiles at the edge

Overview The Tough Stump Rodeo is an outdoor edge technology demonstration set in rural Montana.Selected companies collaborate to integrate their capabilities with the ATAK common-operating-picture to complete communications challenges. CloudRF participated for the first time as a key enabler on… Read more: Tough Stump Rodeo 2026

Modelling Radar and Wireless interference in the 5GHz range Background In the early morning of the 4th of July 2025, the Australian warship HMAS Canberra sailed down the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It had its… Read more: How a passing Warship took out a town’s Internet

The rapid growth of Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) across government, public, and commercial sectors has increased the need for accurate modelling to improve sensor siting and effectiveness. This blog explores how Counter- (C-UAS) and RADAR systems can be modelled efficiently within CloudRF… Read more: Optimising drone detection with RF simulation

The first feature release of 2026 brings new MANET APIs with receiver antenna patterns, a major container refactor, offline 3D terrain, high accuracy tree canopy data and simpler licensing. Multi link API This API is designed for mesh and MANET… Read more: SOOTHSAYER 1.11 released

A common question for novice planners is which RF propagation model is best for my technology? We have many different users employing diverse technologies, time constraints and accuracy requirements, so it is not always a quick answer but knowing about… Read more: Choosing an RF Propagation Model

Summary We conducted a field test in the mountains with SOOTHSAYER focused on automation and endurance. The test generated quality data and revealed altitude issues with our plugin we have since fixed. We conducted a field test in the mountains… Read more: Live network mapping endurance test

Background Radio Direction Finding (DF) is the art of determining the location of an emitter and is used in search and rescue, coastal surveillance, law enforcement and defence. There are different techniques using power and phase but the output for… Read more: Enhancing Radio Direction Finding with RF simulation

To Survey or Simulate Whether its survey drones, drive test vehicles or a police analyst with a backpack full of phones, the problem is the same: RF propagation surveys are very resource intensive. They’re more accurate than a simulation, but… Read more: Fast simulation calibration with Machine Learning

Our latest feature release for our self-hosted server is out now and majors on offline data and security hardening. It’s a release aimed at administrators with six months of CloudRF fixes and features including the noise layer. Offline data packs… Read more: SOOTHSAYER 1.10 released

Highlights Background Three years ago we developed a “live” simulation capability using location-aware MANET radios which we described as dynamic radio planning which fused real and planned radio positions. This feature required a third party hardware API with restrictive terms,… Read more: Live RF coverage mapping with ATAK

Summary We have optimised how our engines model attenuation and diffraction to improve accuracy and performance within forests (and buildings). Highlights Evolution of attenuation and/or diffraction When a radio signal hits an obstacle such as a building, it attenuates through… Read more: Improving accuracy in the trees

Noise is the single biggest factor in determining the quality of a communications link. It’s also the reason why there is low confidence in the accuracy of (RF) simulation in complex environments as it’s rarely done well, if at all.… Read more: Mapping Noise

We’ve published a series of video tutorials for HF novices to bring to life HF theory around the topics of Frequency selection, Antenna fundamentals and forecasting. HF communications is very different to terrestrial communications and given the right frequency, time… Read more: The art of HF

Our latest feature release improves offline setup and adds support for HF Skywave, interference analysis and indoor simulation. Offline by default With pre-built images, offline install is now enabled by default. This was developed to both speed up the install,… Read more: SOOTHSAYER™ 1.9 released

Developments in containerised software and portable GPU hardware have enabled RF simulation at the network edge. Field testing has proven this powerful capability can serve multiple clients from a small battery for a sustained period of time. Key findings Test… Read more: RF planning at the Edge

Simulating indoor radio coverage for first responders has been made simpler thanks to a new capability called Phase Tracing. The novel design was influenced by the 2017 Grenfell Tower inferno, where radio communication in concrete stairwells was highlighted as a… Read more: Phase Tracing interface

Interference is one of the single biggest issues in radio which limits the potential of a system or network. There are different types of interference but the problem of interference visualisation is common to all. With simulation software you can… Read more: Interference analysis

HF Ionospheric propagation, known as Skywave, has been added to the CloudRF API. While Satcom offers clear advantages in terms of speed, bandwidth, and the ability to provide real-time, high-quality data transmission, HF remains a crucial alternative where cost, independence… Read more: HF Skywave

Our latest feature release adds new APIs and retires the virtual machine for a container-first solution compatible with more host systems which enables GPU sharing and greater control over both code and user data. 3D API A new full 3D… Read more: SOOTHSAYER 1.8 released

Monday 8th July 2024 Following our most recent field testing, we have identified two significant improvements in accuracy: The first is a new deterministic propagation model; the General Purpose model. This is a frequency agnostic curve which takes its accuracy… Read more: Model and Clutter improvements

Our latest field test was focused on drive testing novel antennas by UK SME Far Field Exploits (FFX) around the Somerset countryside with Trellisware radios. Previously, we validated diffraction models using LTE800 in the Mountains. The outcome of that cold… Read more: Antenna drive testing

True 3D multi-path Following two years of R&D, our new 3D engine and API is live. It uses an advanced volumetric design to simulate propagation in all directions making it more advanced than 2D engines which can only produce flat… Read more: 3D radio propagation API

The problem with tunnels and stairs Whenever there’s been a major incident involving emergency services in complex urban environments the inquiry report has consistently highlighted radio communications failure despite significant developments in radio communications and 3D technology since the infamous… Read more: 3D simulation roadmap

We have lab tested three different size hardware profiles for running our SOOTHSAYERTM RF planning server to find out how they compare under load. These consumer profiles cater for different setups ranging from an enterprise with rack mounted servers, to… Read more: SOOTHSAYER server performance testing

Our latest major release of our private server, SOOTHSAYER, is ready. It includes six months of features, updates and bug fixes from CloudRF and features several customer sponsored capabilities including RADAR and Trilateration. By popular demand, we now have a… Read more: SOOTHSAYER 1.7 released

Recently, we added advanced diffraction models to CloudRF to complement our existing models. To validate the performance of the new Bullington and Deygout models, we took a field trip to the Highlands of Scotland to collect UHF measurements over rugged… Read more: Field testing diffraction

Today we launched a new model for ionospheric communication planning with High Frequency Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS). It’s available in the interface and directly via the area, path, points or multisite API calls. The powerful GPU accelerated capability offers… Read more: HF Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS)

Cognitive radio, in it’s present form, describes a spectrum sensing radio which can change channel to avoid noise. This capability is standard now on domestic Wi-Fi routers. With our modelling API and modern radios with APIs we can do much… Read more: An API for Cognitive Radio

As RF noise increases, the delta between low-noise RF planning results and real world measurement results has the potential to grow.

The latest release of our private server, SOOTHSAYERTM is now available with bigger limits, better reference data, VSphere 8 enterprise GPU support, enhanced security controls and improved performance. GPU clutter attenuation The GPU engine can now model clutter attenuation in… Read more: SOOTHSAYER 1.6 released

Taggle supplies the Australian water industry with innovative smart water meters and analytics, connected with Taggle’s Byron DSSS sub GHz radio technology, which is Australia’s most widely deployed LPWAN technology. As a long time CloudRF customer, Taggle use the service… Read more: Saving water with Radio

On Saturday 6th May the worlds media descended on London for the Coronation of King Charles, an event last planned before many people had television. As the national broadcaster, the BBC managed the coverage and worked with Neutral Wireless to… Read more: Critical Coronation private 5G network planned with CloudRF

“I’ve never seen modelling that matches the real world” Anon Noise in the RF spectrum is a growing issue. It undermines the performance of systems and requires careful spectrum management and deconfliction to mitigate its impact. Sources of noise can… Read more: Live noise floor modelling

Summary We field tested our software to improve it for beyond line of sight planning. From analysis of data we have improved diffraction accuracy, clutter profiles and crucially have proven that high resolution LiDAR is not the best choice for… Read more: Calibrating beyond line of sight RF modelling with field testing